Reunion movie now has a website

[DarleneIllyria]

http://www.cbs.com/specials/batcave/

It's getting so close to the night of the movie. I'm really starting to get very excited.

[Christopher]

Jenny why is Jason Marsden in the movie? I didn't know that until now, the guy is annoying. Ever seen him on Almost Home or Step By Step?

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by Barnabas
Jenny why is Jason Marsden in the movie? I didn't know that until now, the guy is annoying. Ever seen him on Almost Home or Step By Step?

I remember seeing on one of the pics on the website that Adam and Burt had the opportunity to choose the actors that would play them. I don't really see that much resemblance between Burt and Jason. Yeah, I suppose Jason does look a bit like Burt during the far off scenes. Other than that, I just don't see it.

I've never seen him on Almost Home. I used to watch Step by Step and I do remember him being on the show, but I can't really remember much about him.

[TVJunkie101]

Originally posted by Barnabas
Jenny why is Jason Marsden in the movie? I didn't know that until now, the guy is annoying. Ever seen him on Almost Home or Step By Step?

I remember him on both, and I'm definitely not a fan. He is annoying, lol, maybe he'll be different in the movie (fat chance).

[Christopher]

Originally posted by TVJunkie101


I remember him on both, and I'm definitely not a fan. He is annoying, lol, maybe he'll be different in the movie (fat chance).


Ohhhh some one who agrees with me, that never happens a lot, thanks! :bighug:

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by Barnabas



Ohhhh some one who agrees with me, that never happens a lot, thanks! :bighug:


I'll come back to this thread if I find him annoying. I'm not really a fair judge at the moment, but I'll be fair in the next hour and a half.

[DarleneIllyria]

I'm unsticking the thread. Hope everybody enjoyed the movie! :)

[Christopher]

Originally posted by Jenny
I'm unsticking the thread. Hope everybody enjoyed the movie! :)


What did you think of Jason Marsden?

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by Barnabas



What did you think of Jason Marsden?

He was okay. I think he studied Burt a lot and I think that's why he gets his okay rating. If I were to see something else he was in, I'd prob. rank annoying.

Did you watch the movie, Chris? I was very, very, very impressed with the actor playing the young Adam West. I think that was Jack's first acting job, if I'm not mistaken. He did a damn good job.

[Christopher]

Originally posted by Jenny

Did you watch the movie, Chris


I recorded the movie. It was good I like it.


BTW nice siggy Jenny :)

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by Barnabas



I recorded the movie. It was good I like it.


BTW nice siggy Jenny :)

Thank you.

I must admit one thing. I was so scared I wouldn't get the movie. Okay, I had it on channel 13 and just had the volume down. The cable goes off and I'm freaking out at that point. Luckily, it was only out a minute.

The ending was pretty good too. They left it wide open for a sequel.

[Christopher]

Originally posted by Jenny

The ending was pretty good too. They left it wide open for a sequel.



would they think about having a sequel?

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by Barnabas




would they think about having a sequel?

In one of the articles I posted a few days ago they were considering another reunion. I can't remember exactly how the article was worded, but I think it's gonna be a ratings deal. If the reunion got fantastic ratings, they would more than likely have another movie. If the ratings sucked, it could be kind of iffy.

DVD's
I don't know if anybody else noticed this, but Dawn Wells (Gilligan's Island) was exec. producer on the Batcave movie. I was over at the other Batman board and someone said that the Gilligan's Island reunion was out on DVD. This is the reunion/tell all that they had last year, I think it was last year. That movie got some great ratings and I think that's why they decided to risk putting the GI movie on DVD. If the Batman movie got great ratings, we might see some DVD's pretty soon.

I'll look up some articles later on today to see how the ratings were for the Batcave movie. I'll prob. post it in a new post. Idk, I might post it here.

[Christopher]

One thing I HATED about the movie was no Yvone Craig. She was apart of that show she should have been noticed for her work. I thought it was rude she wasn't in the movie. jmo

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by Barnabas
One thing I HATED about the movie was no Yvone Craig. She was apart of that show she should have been noticed for her work. I thought it was rude she wasn't in the movie. jmo

Hmm, your post just reminded me of something, Chris. Have you read Yvonne's book? Let me find a pic of it. While I'm looking, yeah, I think Yvonne should've had some sort of part in it. It's a reunion, but it wasn't really a full reunion.

Okay, got the link and pic. I put down for Yvonne's book at my library, but they couldn't get it. I really wanted to read her book too. I guess I'll just buy her book later on.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0967807565.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0967807565/qid=1047415276/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-7441565-3805664?v=glance&s=books

[DarleneIllyria]

Holy Flashback! West, Ward Reunite
Mon Mar 3, 4:35 PM ET

By BETH HARRIS, Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES - Holy reunion! Thirty-seven years after Adam West (news) and Burt Ward (news) put on skintight suits to keep Gotham City safe from the villainous Penguin, Joker and Riddler, the Dynamic Duo is back together for a peek at what really happened behind the scenes.


AP Photo



There were on-set explosions that left Ward injured daily, encounters with lusty female fans, whispers of West and Ward being gay, and complaints from censors about the sexual innuendo in the ABC series that aired from 1966-68.


"Our show was a lot different," Ward said. "We teased them, taunted them and played with their minds. For kids, it was kept clean. Teenagers saw all the double meanings and they appreciated it."


West and Ward play off each other as well as they did during the swinging '60s in the CBS movie "Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt" airing Sunday at 9 p.m. EST.


"It's dramatized to an extent, but most of it really did happen. All good comedy is based on truth," West said. "Now they're saying we're a wonderful comedy team. What were we before?"


In the two-hour movie, West, 74, and a rotund Ward, 57, are forced to relive their past to find clues to recovering the Batmobile after it's stolen from a Hollywood charity event.


When a bystander suggests calling the police, West in his best deadpan says, "This is a job for actors. We'll find the Batmobile."


"Us?" Ward replies. "We wouldn't even know where to start."


The movie was done by the same team behind the 2001 CBS hit movie "Surviving Gilligan's Island." Dawn Wells (news), who played Mary Ann, is co-executive producer, Duane Poole wrote the script and Paul Kaufman is director and executive producer.


"The network realized the value of the 'Batman' series and the way the public responded to West and Ward," Kaufman said. "There's something about those two. Watching the series as a child, it was very exciting to work with them."


West saw the movie as a chance to reward fans who clamor for additions to the "Batman" franchise when they meet him at conventions.


"They always greet me with warmth and humor," he said. "People do lines from the show, do entire scenes, they ask me to say lines. People are very funny about the show. I've got three generations who come up to me."


The adventure reunites them with Frank Gorshin (news) (Riddler), Julie Newmar (news) (Catwoman) and Lee Meriwether (Catwoman). In one bar scene, Newmar plays a vivacious vixen who grooves with West to the old "Batman" theme.


"That was a reference to Batman drinking the mickey in that first episode and him doing the Batusi," West said. "I'm always asked, `Do the Batusi?'"


Viewers of the old show will appreciate the inside jokes, as well as familiar touches like a spinning Batmobile between scenes, cartoonish exclamations on screen during a fight, and voiceovers (by Lyle Waggoner (news)) leading into commercials asking if the Caped Crusader and Robin the Boy Wonder can solve the mystery.


West and Ward haven't kept up with each other over the years, but they picked up where they left off when filming began.


"I had a fantastic time with Adam," said Ward, who lives outside Los Angeles and runs Boy Wonder Visual Effects, providing 3-D animation and special effects for movies and television. "You put the two of us together and we don't have to say anything and people start laughing. We were doing things on the first or second take."





After the show was canceled in '68, both actors had the same reaction: Holy typecasting! West and Ward were virtually unemployable and got stuck making personal appearances for several years.

"I was rushed into some not very good movies, and I just hit the beach and nursed my wounds for a while," said West, who eventually got work doing voiceovers and guest shots. "Part of it was the dinosaurs of Hollywood went away, people who didn't get it. I was certainly more welcome when the younger people came in."

Whatever bitterness West felt is gone. He lives in Ketchum, Idaho, with his third wife. They've been married 31 years and have six grown children between them.

"I have such a fondness for it. It's my signature role," he said. "I'm grateful I had a chance to create a classic character. I don't want to be a bitter, aging actor who thinks he's typecast. My God, what man wouldn't want to be Batman for a night?"

Or maybe longer, since there's already talk of a sequel.

"I may not pursue my plan to become a total recluse," West said.







-----------------I'll find the ratings thing in a few minutes.