Al In Future Tv/movie Projects

louietheweaselfaceddogboy · Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:05 am

Here, I found it in the Ask Al Archives. This was dated March, 1999.

Eddie Schmidt of LA,CA asks: What's happening with the screenplay you wrote prior to the release of "Bad Hair Day"? Is it a "Weird Al" vehicle, or kind of a departure?

I originally wrote the screenplay to be a made-for-Showtime movie, since a friend of mine was producing movies for that cable channel at the time. That deal kinda fell through, and I never thought the movie was really good enough for the big screen, so the script is just gathering dust on my hard drive. The script did have a few pretty funny moments, some of which I adapted and used for my Saturday morning show. (Fred Willard's "Whack-A-Mole" routine at the "Host Of The Year" awards show was pretty much a direct lift from the screenplay.) My original script had the working title of "Rabid Puppy," which was also the name of the fictional rock band that the story revolved around.

Post by **The Doctor** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:47 am

Wow. That is really cool! I think having the screenplay as a PDF on the next album would be a nice extra.

Great detective work, Louie!

minnick27 · Post by **minnick27** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:20 pm

Rabid Puppy is an awesome band name. Maybe thats what Al's band should be named.

Post by **The Doctor** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:14 pm

Haha! I really don't think that will happen.

Post by **childofthespiral** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:03 pm

"Weird Al" and the Rabid Puppies has a nice ring to it.

Post by **bryce87** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:58 am

what about a movie called "we all have cell phones so come on let's get real" lol Could be about people who have cell phones and that's there only obsession. it could be a half hour tv show too.

Twinkies Are Yucky · Post by **Twinkies Are Yucky** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:31 am

Good luck with that.

weirdalfan1000000 · Post by **weirdalfan1000000** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:59 am

In the movie Fred Claus, coming out November 9th, do you think TNSWC will be in the soundtrack?

weirdal56206 · Post by **weirdal56206** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:36 am

that would be great

WaffleQueen27 · Post by **WaffleQueen27** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:21 pm

I know it's such old news, but I would love to see another UHF-ish movie. Movies in that kind of style (like Airplane, Naked Gun, ect) are some of my favorites and I don't think there's ever going to be a shortage of people who find things like that to be funny. Maybe he could do a made for TV movie, at the very least. You don't need a huge budget to be hilarious.