Jennifer Aniston to produce a " 9 to 5 " remake

No. I forbid this.

It flopped as a network television comedy, and it flopped as a Broadway musical. Do we really need a remake 44 years later ?

This would be a lot better if it were rewritten for 3 gay men working for, say. Ellen DeGeneres.

NO. LEAVE IT ALONE.

I wonder if Billie Ellish will write and perform the theme song, and win another Oscar ?

Like, how could THIS ever be topped? HOW?

Jennifer, Jennifer, Jennifer. You were already in Horrible Bosses 1-2 which let's face it, is sort of a 9 to 5 story. Why keep recycling the same ideas?

I wasn't that impressed with the original when I saw it way back when. It was outdated even for 1980. Now? Office culture has changed 1000% since then, with so many people working from home and doing their own tasks that secretaries and typing pools used to exist for. WTF is supposed to the audience for this - bused in assisted living old ladies?

Aniston = Fonda, Sofía Vergara = Parton, Viola Davis = Tomlin. Ben Stiller = Coleman. Bowen Yang = Roz, the icky office snitch. Lisa Kudrow as Missy Hart.

Who's the cutie standing beside Dolly in the recording studio scenes?

I would watch this.

Diablo Cody?

I would prefer to masturbate with my cheese grather. No. No no no. I'm still having Juno flashbacks.

R8 right? The movie couldnt exist today, not just because of home office etc but no way would you have a boss that thinks they could get away with anything the boss in the original did. It would seem beyond outdated.

Let’s be honest, it’ll be a humorless black empowerment story and just make fun of white men with punchlines that don’t land. It’ll star Zendaya, Keke Palmer, and Gabourey Sidibe.

Wanda Sykes will be the non-binary boss who hits on the women. Hilarity has no bounds !

Hollywoodspeak: Reimagining = taking something great and producing a far inferior remake.

If Diablo Cody is writing it, it will be a disaster. THat talent-free cunt was a one trick pony.

Aniston should do a “Death Becomes Her” reimagining instead, starring Courtney Cox as one of the living corpses.

What's happening with the sequel?

A modern day sequel could be very good if well-written and adapted to current manifestations of sexism (which still exists in office settings, but not to such a blatant extent).

What would bold and daring is if they set the story in an blue collar environment like, say, the restaurant industry where seual harassment is rampant. Or a factory setting? Working class women probably have it worse than their office/corporate counterparts. Does Hollywood make movies about Norma Raes anymore?

R17 Young Adult was brilliant. 2-trick pony, then all downhill

[quote] Young Adult was brilliant

If you say so.

Charlize is good at playing psychos.

R21 Juno was a gigantic hunkering piece of shit. I LOATHED that movie

Ok, so who's the guy in the Dolly Parton video?

This is soooo not going to work and is a completely stupid idea. Many offices are adult kindergartens filled with immature, medicated navel gazers staring at their phones.

Jennifer Aniston, Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy doing a Gen X remake of First Wives Club set in LA would be a much better property for her.

Anniston plays the exact same character in every performance. Pass.

Oh, merde.

R8 nailed it. I saw the movie when it came out and thought it was dumb.

The movie is going to be five minutes long and will culminate when the first harrassee, played by Sara Gilbert, screams with angry power, “Time’s up me too”!

The original is dated and the remake could work

If this actually happens, it will be a megaton bomb.

Im interested, people WFH and don't have to put up with this stupidity

Ok Jeffrey Toobin 👆

I don't get the reference. Toobin yanked his penis when he thought the meeting ended.

All of my managers are women. What is the point of this?

It's Jen's way to make a livin'

No way will it be three caucasian women working in the office, like it was in 1980.

It will be Jennifer Aniston, America Ferrara and Margaret Cho . Billy Porter (in a non-binary role) will be the boss. Rosie O'Donnell will be his boss. Hilarity ensues.

Jennifer, Katie Heigl, and Sandra Oh

[quote] "The film is currently in development, with Diablo Cody"

That's all the further I need to read. Not that I'd willingly watch this anyway.

Wasn't a sequel supposed to happen years ago with Rashida Jones scripting? And the time before that, and before that? This is one of those pipeline project in perpetual something or another for the last 40 years.

Dolly Parton was pushing a sequel which she worked on during the pandemic. I think it was going to bring in some elements from the Broadway musical as well as the original movie. Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin were both onboard with her.

Lliy said she had interested Paul Weitz in writing and directing the sequel. He worked with Lily on Grandma and Moving On.

Here's the new cast, in this 'reimagined' remake...

RuPaul, Tomothee Chalamet, and Bowen Yang. Viola Davis plays the boss. Lil Nas X will write and record the song.

Yet another cast in the original that cannot be replaced.

Someone should write a movie about all the HR frau bosses and their HR bullshit. It could be this reboot.

With The Morning Show on hiatus

I decided to go back to theaters

to smile and laugh and try to come alive

Commissioned a screenplay from Diablo Cody

passed on the role of the office toadie

to play folks like me on the job from 9 to 5

Making 9 to 5, what a way to earn some money

On an acting high, I'll produce and still be funny

I will use my mind and never give Diablo credit

It may get me an Oscar nod too if I edit

This has FLOP written all over it. It may get made, but will it get released ?

I'm bored already.

[quote]The original “9 to 5” follows three female office colleagues who decide to exact revenge on their sexist, egotistical boss.

Hasn't this already been remade as Bombshell?

Did anyone see the flop Broadway musical ?

Will Jen get her BFF Reese to o-star?

Bombshell was a great movie! I went in with extremely low expectations and was pleasantly surprised.

This won't work for the simple fact that most people don't work from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. any longer. The work day starts at 8 a.m. and you get an unpaid hour for lunch.

New title: ‘Remote to Zoom’

The song won’t be as catchy.

How do I always forget that DL cunts manage to outdo even MAGAts in the sexism / misogyny / whining about "wokeness" department?

[quote]I wasn't that impressed with the original when I saw it way back when. It was outdated even for 1980.

Lemme guess: you're a guy. Try asking any given woman who was a white-collar worker circa 1980 if it was "outdated." (I did that 44 years ago: I was a little kid at the time, and my mom was a white-collar worker stuck in middle management after being passed over time & time again for promotions solely due to her gender. Or you could just scan the C-suite names of any given Fortune 500 corporation, and note that at least 75% of them are white men.

[quote]Let’s be honest, it’ll be a humorless black empowerment story and just make fun of white men with punchlines that don’t land.

Sure, that sounds right up Aniston's alley. 🙄

[quote]Does Hollywood make movies about Norma Raes anymore?

No, because the number of American women who work on factory floors is nearly zero nowadays. Their jobs were among the first to be offshored.

[quote]All of my managers are women. What is the point of this?

Probably to point out that white men still control the vast majority of positions of *real* power. (Meaning your managers don't qualify.) Law schools have had female majorities for nearly 30 years now, and yet men still comprise 85% of the equity partner positions at top-tier law firms. The asshole men on the Supreme Court and in the GOP want their "gals" barefoot and DEFINITELY pregnant. (A few, e.g. Gaetz, also want them in high school.)

Arguing sexism in the workplace has "disappeared" is as stupid as the Supreme Court saying the same thing about racism when they overturned the part of the Voting Rights Act intended to ensure that minority voters had equal voting rights.

Dixie Carter--Violet

Jean Smart--Judy

Delta Burke--Doralee

Julia Duffy--Roz

Alice Ghostley--Margaret

Hal Holbrook--Tinsworthy

R48 continued

9 to 5, without Jane, Dolly, and Lily

Mathew Perry died, so I need to do some silly

A new title song composed by Bille Ellish

It's enough to make Julia Roberts jealous

No thank you.

Not required.

I was 16 when this movie came out, went with a group of friends from high school one weekend, and chuckled a few times (I was a new Dolly Parton fan back then). A few years later, it was shown endlessly on HBO and I watched it a couple of more times, but laughed less. It was already stale by the mid-80s (probably why the TV show didn't work on network TV in prime time).

I say we hire a couple wranglers to go upstairs and beat the shit out of her.

Office life is actually worse than it was 40 years ago.

but what kind of things will they do for "revenge" I want to know.

perhaps, they will try to screw up his love life? what are the ways?

They will infect the boss' computer with a virus from Russia !

Whatever happened to Jennifer Anniston's 'Goree Girls?' It even had a page on IMDb including a full cast list.

Goree Girls is in queue to be filmed right after Streisand's "Gypsy".

Go away and enjoy your money, which you didn't earn with any talent, btw. You've never made a SINGLE good movie.

Someone tell me why this bitch is famous.

Do you think Jen will give Jane and Dolly and Lily cameos?

[quote]Office life is actually worse than it was 40 years ago.

You could smoke and drink (if you were discreet about it) at your desk. People were more relaxed.