We’ve been waiting for this news.
The 1977 sitcom Three’s Company is in talks to be revived… as a feature film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
New Line Cinema is currently in negotiations to acquire the rights to the classic TV series, which starred John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt and Suzanne Somers as Santa Monica roommates Jack, Janet and Chrissy. Jack, famously, pretended to be gay in order to have the living arrangement pass muster with the landlord.
Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein (He’s Just Not That Into You) will pen the script, which will reportedly stay set in the 1970s, with Robert Cort (Jumanji, Runaway Bride) attached to produce.
During its eight-season run on ABC, Three’s Company won an Emmy (for Ritter’s work as Jack Tripper) and two Golden Globes (for Ritter and supporting actor Norman Fell, who played Landlord No. 1, Stanley Roper).
Your thoughts on a big-screen Three’s Company? Drop ’em below.
No.
No..just No. Any and all talks of Three’s Company, whether its a movie or tv show revival should not even be considered. UNLESS his John Ritter’s son is attached to the project and wants to do it as an homage to his late father
That would be very interesting if they could get Jason Ritter to do it. I don’t honk he would do it, but if he did, you have an instant hook
I think Tyler Ritter would be a better choice than Jason.
This. He looks more like their dad.
I just saw him on NCIS recently and thought his comedic timing was more like his dad’s too.
What a horrible idea. The show was very much of it’s time but now is pretty homophobic and sexist. They would pretty much have to reconstruct it from scratch to try to find a way to make this work without being offensive.
Unless they do it like they do How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying. … as a look back and now we can laugh and say how stupid it was,
Yeah if it’s done as a period piece, it could work
It’s been a while since I watched it last, but can you give some reasons to why it was “homophobic and sexist”?
Please tell me Jason Ritter will be playing Jack. Otherwise, no, STOP with the revivals, reboots (except Gilmore Girls), sequels, prequels. It’s too much.
Yeah…..no. Very much a product of it’s time. Who today would get upset with a guy living with 2 girls? No reason to pretend to be gay, etc…. premise doesn’t work today.
Exactly!
What’s all the negativity? The show was awesome and hilarious, and I’d love to see it revived!
“We’ve been waiting for this news”.
If you mean as a sad inevitability, then yes.
Good luck anyone who tries to capture what John Ritter did in that show.
“Come and knock on our door. We’ve been waiting for you.” are the opening lyrics to the theme song.
it will only work if they switch it up and Jack is gay pretending to be straight because their aren’t LGBT public accommodation protections in the state in which they reside. Roper is an even bigger homophobic buffoon.
“there” ugh.
He wasn’t “homophobic,” silly. Thinking Jack was gay is why he allowed him to stay in the apartment!
I turned to my co-worker and asked if she ever watched TC, she responded yes! (Something we both watched when younger). The very first words out of her mouth when I told her of this movie were:” Oh god no….why?” :) I echo those words! LOL
In far left Santa Monica, where the show was set, such a charade would have not been necessary. Even in the 70s. The whole premise of the show was silly. And as talented as John Ritter was, his effeminate play acting to pass as queer is offensive, then and now. Bad idea then, bad idea 40 years later.
I always thought it was less about trying to “pass” as it was about just needling Roper.
if it’s done like “the brady bunch movie”, i think it COULD work.
Because 40 years later its believable that a landlord would refuse to rent to roommates that are unmarried
In the 70’s 2 girls living w/ 1 boy was risque. Now not so much. This is so lame.
No. No. No. Wish they would just leave our childhood repeats alone. This show does not age well.
How would they do this anyway? They would have to either do it as a time period show like the Goldbergs is now or Happy Days did in the 70’s or change it up completely to fit in today’s world unless they do clueless time travelers from the 70’s who end up in 2016.
What I’d love is a tell-all feature about what went on behind the scenes!
Don’t whitewash over the feuding and power struggles with a drippy reboot.
Well the article says the movie would be set in the same time period as the original show so I don’t really understand why the central conceit of Jack pretending to be gay suddenly wouldn’t work. That said this makes me apprehensive. The original is such a classic. Maybe if one of John’s sons was attached. Maybe.
Geez. Joyce is 66. Suzanne is 69. John passed away. So why not let heartless Hollywood take another shot?