charmed movie??

[agentbrody7224]

I think it is a great idea . and it would be cool to see a spin off too.

[richardrcbx]

if they did do a movie they must include prue (shannon doherty)...no shannon no film thank you

[vandergraafk]

That would be extremely difficult, and highly unlikely! If there's going to be a movie, it will be with Piper, Paige and Phoebe. Although Piper, Paige and Prue wouldn't be bad either, especially since Phoebe's mostly in Phoebeland.

[spiritsas]

Prue: If you read through the posting in the Spinoff Chatter thread, you'll see one of our members has been in touch with the actor who played adult Wyatt and another has had some conversations with reps from the CW. They like the idea, but, and this is no surprise, want to be sure the audience is strong enough to support such a series. It's recommended people sign the Charmed Sons petitions, listed in the thread, to continue to get their attention and to keep it focused.

[spiritsas]

I also don't think they could get SD back for a movie unless three things happened. She's allowed to direct it, HMC makes a personal appeal as her friend, and they offer her a lot of money. I don't know if the problems SD had were with AM, Brad Kern, the WB, Spelling or all of the above, but Spelling is now gone (and will be missed), the WB is no more (missed, but not so much), and Brad Kern would probably not be involved. So that just leaves any problems SD and AM had, which could be resolved if enough $ was involved, and one other little item. Is SD willing, at any price, to redo her role (as a ghost or whatever) in a movie version? It's been five years and she never once asked to come back (or was asked, so the story goes). She simply may have put that part of her life behind her and wants to do other things. I think Charmed and 90210 really helped her career and leaving each of them hurt. She's done some movies (TV), hosted a strange Scare the crap out of people show, and I'm not sure what else. She's a talent which should be used and being booted (or leaving) two successful shows does bode well on her resume. I sincerely hope she doesn't follow the Robert Downey Jr path to self destruction of a great talent, or could have been a great talent. Everyone loses then.

[starlascharmed]

A charmed movie? What would they do, or say in the movie that has not been included in the wonderful years that charmed was airing? I am not quite sure that there is any ground left to cover! I wish that they did not stop at season 8 but i think that a 9th season would get the cast more attention than a movie. However they might still have some magic hidden away.

[Fiji221]

i don't think I movie would be a very good idea. I think that if they really wanted the shows finale to be longer, then they would do a two hour episode like they do for so many season openers/finale. I think a movie would be over-kill.

[vandergraafk]

Any of the pulp fictions could serve as a script for a Charmed movie. Or, it could be set at a time after Forever Charmed. There are myriad possibilities. Billie could get into serious trouble with some demons and the Charmed Ones would have to rescue her. This would allow Piper and Billie to have a go at making amends because - believe me - there is a lot of unfinished business between these two!

[ShantaD]

I can't think of a single reason why Piper should be making amends with Billie or allowing Billie to make amends with her after what she did to Wyatt and to her family. Their business was finished when Piper allowed Billie to live. Billie should take that and run.

[charmedfan4evr]

shantad said:

I can't think of a single reason why Piper should be making amends with Billie or allowing Billie to make amends with her after what she did to Wyatt and to her family. Their business was finished when Piper allowed Billie to live. Billie should take that and run.

Completely agree with you! I was hoping the whole time that they would vanquish Billie, but I knew that they wouldn't because TCO's were always good natured and believed in giving second chances, and at the end they especially Piper was forced to look at the good inside of Billie. But we all know that Billie deserved death, and she is a very lucky girl, she had ZERO chance againts TCO's. So Billie should just be happy and thankful that she's still alive and she should run far far away.

[vandergraafk]

As one of the five and one-half Billie fans, I couldn't disagree more. Billie has a lot of amending to do. She needs to go back to Magic School for an intensive stuff of the greater good and why that's not equivalent to the greater powers (who dispatched Dumain). From Forever Charmed, we know that Billie's going to hang around - at least with Phoebe. She had better kiss Piper's derriere many times over before being welcomed back into the fold. Plus, she needs to have a few powers clipped.

[barmyoncharmed]

She shouldnt even be hanging with Phoebe, as Phoebe should be siding with Piper it was family that Billie used and abused. Should've let Piper blow her to bits, as for a Charmed movie it wouldn't be as good as the series.

[HollysFan]

Phoebe left Piper in her time of mourning, are you really that suprised that she forgave Billie so easily?

[charmedgoddess]

Phoebe did not leave Piper in her time of mourning!! Piper told her to go ahead, that there was nothing she could do, and when she was needed she came. I hate it that people are twisting her character around like that : (

I don't think a movie is a horrible idea as long as they do it right!!

[vandergraafk]

A movie would certainly be more appealing to Rose, probably Alyssa, too. If the script is well written and the plot credible, why not? As for Phoebe, I mean the issue is between Piper and Billie. Phoebe sided with Piper when it counted. That Phoebe may be the mediator - ultimately - between these two is utterly to be expected. It would certainly be a challenging task for her. Paige has a role to play as well. After all, Billie was her charge. She certainly has to have been extremely disappointed in what transpired and had to have wondered whether she brought Billie along too fast!

[spiritsas]

Vandergraaafk: I think you're right about the appeal of a movie for Rose, as that is her preferred medium. I agree that there are certainly enough stories in print and new ones which could be written for just this purpose. With characters that are so well defined, it would be easier for a writer to work the story. I've seen in the many books written how well, good story or not, they get the quality of the characters down so well you can see them saying these lines with their typical facial expressions.

All that aside, the real issues will always be (presuming you're talking big screen movie), can enough money be raised to buy a decent script, have great effects, and schedule all the cast back together. Often this can take a 1-3 years, even though the shooting for the movie is done in a matter of months.

As for all the complaints about Billie. All true, but they had to bring her and her sister along at great speed, as they only had one season to do so. As for vanquishing her, well she was never truly evil, just deceived by Christy, so it was OK she lived. As for how they showed her as obviously becoming a great family friend, that too is not surprising. Given the deaths of her sisters were reversed and it was obvious Billie was being brainwashed by her evil sister, it's not out of character for TCOs to forgive her. They've forgiven others for far worse (Cole, for example, who acutally murdered innocents and witches for over a century) and so I don't have a problem with it. I expected it would go that way.

As for what the movie would be about, I've noted in past postings my thoughts on this, so I won't rehash. Except to say there is, if you examine which Christy was killed, an evil Christy still out there. Unfinished business could be the theme.

[vandergraafk]

Are you one of the five Billie fans? I've already admitted being half-way there! But, I confess the character of Billie post ultimate battle will be a bit of a challenge to work out! How does one temper her sarcasm and combine it with the necessary penance she must do? Not an easy dilemma to work out.

[ShantaD]

it was obvious Billie was being brainwashed by her evil sister

No she wasn't. Christy was brainwashed by the Triad and Dumain. She was held captive and isolated from the age of seven and taught only what they wanted her to know. But Billie was raised in a normal home. She went to college, she became friends with the Halliwells. She was living a life where she was free to make her own choices. She chose to believe someone whom she barely knew and whom she knew was raised by demons. She was easily and quickly convinced to commit murder by that person. She made a free and conscious choice. She wasn't brainwashed.

[spiritsas]

Not so much a Billie fan but more an understanding fan of why Kern had to bring the character along so quickly. Personally, I would have chosen another actor to have played this role. It would had to have been someone young, but an actor with more poise and camera conifidence would have been better solely because of the time limitations (one season) Kern had to develop this character and bring her into the center of a great battle. A new witch, with no experience, not even old enough to be out of college and then, within a year, find herself to be a witch, with new powers showing up every few weeks, and a long lost kidnapped sister? It sounds too much like a bad soap opera plot. There wasn't even enough time to even give her the glint of a love life or even a love interest. I think they had one episode where she had a love interest, very short lived, where she was interested in the guy who was from 1955 who had been trapped in his magical photo. Then they need to introduce a sister, who at first can barely speak, but comes along quite quickly, as she is really been a pawn for the Triad, trained all these years, to bend her sister to her will. Didn't anyone else think how she went from from being raised by wolves to being able to function socially so quickly? Well, that's just TV, but it was a difficult role to bring forward even more quickly. The interesting part is that it always seems easier to develop the evil characters than the good ones.

So, to answer your question, I feel I understood the problem with the role which any actor would have had, so I don't fault her as much, except for bad acting. They needed a stronger personality.

[hazel]

It would be a great movie.

;D