Can
it be?
Is
it real?
Are
we finally going to see...
A
Bugaloos' movie?
March
17, 2003:
A
Bugaloos movie
is still tentatively in the works. Stay tuned!
November
22, 2000:
The
Bugaloos' movie
is being prepped at Universal
with
Danny DeVito's
Jersey Films.
Thursday
August
03 01:41 AM EDT
Jersey
lets fly
with 'Bugaloos'
By
Zorianna Kit
LOS
ANGELES (The
Hollywood Reporter) --- Universal Pictures-based
Jersey Films has
optioned the feature film rights to the "The Bugaloos,"
Sid and Marty Krofft's
1970-72
psychedelic
Saturday morning
series on NBC.
The
live-action puppet
production followed the antics of a group
of teenage insects
-- Joy,
Harmony, IQ and Courage -- who formed a
rock group called
the Bugaloos. Band members
spoke in English dialects
and hung out with
their firefly friend Sparky, who often got into
trouble with the
group's nemesis
Benita Bizarre, a tone-deaf witch living inside a jukebox.
Kerry Brown
and Russell
Scott have been hired to write the
screenplay, which
will be produced
by Jersey partners Danny DeVito,
Michael Shamberg
and Stacey Sher, along with Sid
and Marty Krofft. Randy Pope,
executive
vp production for the Kroffts, will executive produce.
Jersey production
vp Kevin Hardesty and creative executive
Adrienne Biddle
will supervise
development of the project.
"We're
fortunate
that many of the people who grew up on our stuff
now want to work
with us,"
Marty Krofft told The Hollywood Reporter.
"Stacey Sher has
more Krofft memorabilia on her
desk
than I have in my
house!"
<>Other
Krofft TV projects
in development around town for features
include
"H.R. Pufnstuf"
and
"Land of the Lost," both at Sony Family
Entertainment,
and
"Family Affair" at Warner Bros.
