Dan Aykroyd gives blessing for Female Blues Brothers movie

[ben6543]

https://etcanada.com/news/330574/dan...others-reboot/

Dan Aykroyd is putting a new band together, and he’s going A-list all the way.

While in Toronto for National Caesar Day to promote his wildly successful Crystal Head Vodka, the former “Saturday Night Live” star shared who he’d like to see cast in the upcoming, all-female reboot of his hit movie “The Blues Brothers”.

“I like Lupita Nyong’o, and I like Taylor Swift,” the 65-year-old comedian revealed. “She’s got all the chops. She can sing, she can burn down guitar.”


Aykroyd — who co-starred as Elwood Blues alongside John Belushi, who played brother Jake — outlined the premise of the new sequel. “In this movie, these ladies inherit the franchise from Elwood. You know, they get the Bluesmobile. They get to drive the Bluesmobile, they get to fight the Klan and the Nazis — it’s really neat.”



The Canadian comedy legend created the original band with Belushi as part of a musical sketch on “SNL”, which spawned a #1 album (1978’s double-platinum “Briefcase Full of Blues”) and the hit movie. He continues to perform as Elwood Blues alongside Jim Belushi, younger brother of the late “Animal House” star.


Just keep Melissa Mccarthy and Paul Feig away from this

[Gamma_Winstead]

[Groot]

If Taylor Swift was in a female version of The Blues Brothers I'd probably build a doomsday bomb shelter because the world is ending.

[Michael24]

Because it worked so well for Ghostbusters.

[doctorD]

Awe Hell naw!!!!

[PipesDonatello]

Gave his blessing? Why do I get the feeling that Aykroyd was begging someone to make this.

[DragonOfTheBlackPool]

When I clicked on the thread I was expecting to see Melissa McCarthy's name in the Belushi role. Nothing.....

[Show spoiler]

[shinobipopcorn]

They can't inherit the Bluesmobile, it disintegrated once it reached the assessor's office. I might be the biggest fan of the sequel here (given that I actually enjoy it), but even I don't count that car as legit.

I am all for girl versions of movies, but they need to make sense. This one doesn't. A female 007 could work because 007 is the agent code. Laura can take over for Logan and be a new Wolverine. MiB can be anyone. But the Blues Brothers are Jake and Elwood; BB 2000 barely got by with John Goodman's Mack (who knows how it would have been with Belushi's brother).

[Galactus]

[Show spoiler]

[SarahS]

Because Blues Brothers 2000 was so successful?

[CelluloidPal]

Originally Posted by shinobipopcorn

They can't inherit the Bluesmobile, it disintegrated once it reached the assessor's office. I might be the biggest fan of the sequel here (given that I actually enjoy it), but even I don't count that car as legit.

I am all for girl versions of movies, but they need to make sense. This one doesn't. A female 007 could work because 007 is the agent code. Laura can take over for Logan and be a new Wolverine. MiB can be anyone. But the Blues Brothers are Jake and Elwood; BB 2000 barely got by with John Goodman's Mack (who knows how it would have been with Belushi's brother).

So, going by that statement, if they did a girl version of The Last House on the Left, Natural Born Killers or The Glass Shield that made sense, you'd be for it and you'd be for taking other people's IP to establish that instead of standing on your own two feet?

[shinobipopcorn]

Originally Posted by CelluloidPal

So, going by that statement, if they did a girl version of The Last House on the Left, Natural Born Killers or The Glass Shield that made sense, you'd be for it and you'd be for taking other people's IP to establish that instead of standing on your own two feet?

I've never seen those movies, but if the story can be helmed by a woman, what's the problem? People using other people's scripts has been around since the dawn of media. Look how many times Batman and Superman have been reshot. There's a lot of sexism here that needs to disappear.

[CelluloidPal]

Originally Posted by shinobipopcorn

I've never seen those movies, but if the story can be helmed by a woman, what's the problem? People using other people's scripts has been around since the dawn of media. Look how many times Batman and Superman have been reshot. There's a lot of sexism here that needs to disappear.

There's a lot of racism that has to disappear too and since we're going by that, let's turn Batman black, make a Latino remake of Die Hard, remake Friday with an Asian cast or make a version of Detroit with the cops portrayed by females and just stop casting white males in movies outright until the problem is fixed since they're the root of all evil in Hollywood.
It just reeks of outright laziness, pure and simple. I guess creating original works with different cast is too much work when you can ride the coat tails of someone else's IP.
BTW, If some did an all male led of Steel Magnolias or Fried Green Tomatoes, they're are folks that'll lose their collective s.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by CelluloidPal

It just reeks of outright laziness, pure and simple. I guess creating original works with different cast is too much work when you can ride the coat tails of someone else's IP.

I don't know about you but I'm very glad Steven Moffat took the lazy route and rode the coat tails of someone else's IP because his Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes stuff has been pretty awesome.

I'm also glad Universal is still cranking out Bond movies and Disney has revived Star Wars. Sure, that too reeks of outright laziness, I guess but the movies are pretty fun so...

There are countless examples of people riding somebody else's coattails and producing awesome entertainment.

Though I'm not sure what any of this has to do with Dan Aykroyd and The Blues Brothers.

Ohhhhh, wait, are you talking about the fact that he and Belushi performed all those songs they didn't write?

I dunno, I kind of liked that.

[Shingster]

Originally Posted by shinobipopcorn

I've never seen those movies, but if the story can be helmed by a woman, what's the problem? People using other people's scripts has been around since the dawn of media. Look how many times Batman and Superman have been reshot. There's a lot of sexism here that needs to disappear.

But the property has to be one where the gender-flip makes sense. How many famous modern-day, iconic (in a mainstream sense) female blues artists are out there to star in this film? Loads of wonderful female blues artists over the years, but the vast majority are only known to serious blues fans. Soul Sisters is certainly a much more suitable property but then you've moved away from Blues Brothers and into "why bother linking it to the BB original" territory.

This was also the problem with Ghostbusters, it was a "lightning in a bottle" franchise created by a bunch of men with a very masculine world view, and Hollywood thought a female-centric remake aimed primarily at women was going to be well received with no backlash at all? Anyone with half a brain could see that coming!

Loads of properties from the 70s and 80s you can reboot and replace men with women, but you've got to apply common sense, and it seems nobody in Hollywood is really doing that. Something like Roadhouse for instance could work with a badass female lead because the fanbase isn't so rabid and it doesn't have that big, big iconic status, plus it's a property that's ripe for gender flippery because the original was basically a western-reworking with machismo ramped up to 11 that didn't take itself too seriously and a talented scriptwriter could easily subvert that.

[Kaiju]

[Rzzzz]

Is nothing sacred in Hollywood ? They not only sell their souls but they would sell their own mothers into the sex trade if they could make a buck....

[Monroville]

Well... you have to be for sale in order to sell out. And Dan Aykroyd is definitely "for sale".

Originally Posted by Rzzzz

Is nothing sacred in Hollywood ? They not only sell their souls but they would sell their own mothers into the sex trade if they could make a buck....

If you believe all the stories about Bill, Harvey and Bryan.. all they need to do is sell themselves into the sex trade, otherwise known as "business as usual" on the west coast.

[Foggy]

But Blues Sisters just doesn't have the same ring to it...

[shinobipopcorn]

Originally Posted by Foggy

But Blues Sisters just doesn't have the same ring to it...

Soul Sisters sounds good, but keep that no talent skinny trollop AWAY.