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ok so i'm reading "a pirate looks at 50" right now, and jimmy mentions "9000 talks" about a movie version of Margaritaville, and how all of them failing

does anyone know anything about this? like...was there actually a possibility of sometype of movie actually coming out about margaritaville?

also...what do you think? would it work?


just a thought...

No clue about Margaritaville, but I am very surprised Joe Merchant has never been made into a movie. It would seem to fit within the current comedy/action flicks that are all the rage in Hollywood right now. And you have a pretty big fan base that would go see the movie just because Jimmy wrote it.

I don't recall a lot about "Margaritaville: The Movie" but I do remember talk of it from back in the day. If I'm not mistaken, it even got as far as preliminary scenes being filmed. The reason I probably don't recall a lot about it is because there wasn't a lot of info about it back in those days. I do believe Buffett has commented on it more than just in A Pirate Looks At 50, perhaps in an old issue of the Coconut Telegraph?

I definitely remember reading that Joe Merchant was going to be turned into a movie but I guess talks must of broken down somewhere along the way. If I remember right, it wasn't too long after this that Buffett starting throwing himself into Don't Stop the Carnival so maybe it just got put on the back burner.

You have to understand Hollywood - it makes the music business look like a christian summer camp. For anyone on the outside (ie Jimmy) to get a project greenlighted is a major endeabour that inevitibly involves selling part of your soul to the devil, compromising your vision, and kissing so much exective ass that you end up with blisters on your lips.

There are literally thousands of steps along the way of getting a movie just into production that can put it on hold indefinitely. Sometimes you hear the backstory of successful films where it took them 10 years, three writers and two studios to make a remarkably average movie.

They may still be out there, but who knows where they're at.

Key Lime Lee wrote:You have to understand Hollywood - it makes the music business look like a christian summer camp.

Classic!

I was surfing the web and I came across this a few months ago...

http://www.thezreview.co.uk/comingsoon/ ... rchant.htm

maybe this means its out there somewhere and within the next few years, Where is Joe Merchant might make the big screen.

i think the weather is here would make a good movie...kinda similat to joe merchant i guess. well i'd see any jimmy movie, probably twice just because i wouldn't remember the first time

Key Lime Lee wrote:You have to understand Hollywood - it makes the music business look like a christian summer camp. For anyone on the outside (ie Jimmy) to get a project greenlighted is a major endeabour that inevitibly involves selling part of your soul to the devil, compromising your vision, and kissing so much exective ass that you end up with blisters on your lips.

What's REALLY scary is the fact that you're not exaggerating!

Still love to see Joe Merchant on the big screen, though.

toofarnorth wrote:well i'd see any jimmy movie, probably twice just because i wouldn't remember the first time

I've heard people say that Jimmy makes an uncredited cameo appearance as one of the pirates in Hook, but I've never been able to spot him...

He supposed to be the Pirate that steals Robin Williams' shoes...
but even with slo-mo and freeze-frame functions, I can't recognize him either.

Here's but one example:

A good friend of mine represents the writer who CREATED the show "Early Edition" about the guy who reads tomorrows newspaper today. The writer created it all on his own and even wrote the first season worth of episodes.

Well in Hollywood one of the only ways to get a TV show sold is to work with what's called a "show runner". Essentially they're just someone with enough clout to get the studio guys to listen.

In exchange for taking the show to the studio the showrunner took co-creator credit. In the process that showrunner worked with another showrunner who ALSO took cocreator credit.

So they get the show on the air and now it says "created by..." and lists the actual creator and two show runners who did NOTHING to create the show. Three shows in they fire the writer who created the show, but STILL film the entire first season he wrote, but then find other writers for subsequent seasons.

In the end, what money he did make he had to split three ways, and then he never got to write another episode of a show that he created.

Now that's just TV... movies are even worse.

Don't forget the meeting Jimmy had with Disney to make the Jolly Mon movie... only "the ears" insisted the Jolly Mon be white... so it didn't happen.

And thanks for sharing your insight KLL!

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:

toofarnorth wrote:well i'd see any jimmy movie, probably twice just because i wouldn't remember the first time

I've heard people say that Jimmy makes an uncredited cameo appearance as one of the pirates in Hook, but I've never been able to spot him...

He's also listed in the credits to the cult classic Repo Man but I've never been able to figure out which one he is.