With "Get To The Greek" set to descend upon theaters, a film featuring the character of vapid but vociferously hilarious rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), originally featured in the marvelous rom com "Forgetting Sarah Marshall", I couldn't help but feel my mind drift off to supporting characters from other films who deserve their own spin offs. Once I started compiling the list the names poured forth like Sierra Nevada from the tap on a college football Saturday.
- Mouse Alexander (Don Cheadle), "Devil In A Blue Dress". About an hour (maybe more) into this Denzel Washington driven regular-joe-turned-private-eye the main character's violent, hair-trigger, raucous, boyhood pal turns up with a gun in hand and doesn't take more than a few minutes to unload a bullet into a poor sap's shoulder to glean some necessary info and you think, "Holy gods, who is this dude?!" And it seems like in the blink of an eye, as soon as he has arrived, he is gone. As wonderously rapturous as Jennifer Beals is as the femme fatale title character (have you ever wanted to make love to a voice? Woah! Did I just say that out loud?) and as good as Denzel always is, this movie belongs to Cheadle's Mouse. An entire film belongs to him, too. (Note: Will someone please explain how he didn't get an Oscar nod for this?)
- Club Doorman (Craig Robinson), "Knocked Up". No, he doesn't even have a name but I would give it all up to see the trials & tribulations of the most stressed out doorman in the fifty states.
- Carson Wells (Woody Harrelson), "No Country For Old Men". This was my friend Brad's idea, actually, and it's a magnificent one.
- Madeleine White (Jodie Foster), "Inside Man". I don't even need to explain this one.
- Sherman "Preacher" Dudley (LL Cool J), "Deep Blue Sea". Important Note: I'm joking. Or am I?
- Hollywood (Whip Hubley) & Wolfman (Barry Tubb), "Top Gun". Obviously it's too late for this spin off but everyone who came of age in the 80's knows it should have happened.
- Kelly (Anna Faris), "Lost In Translation". Perhaps one day Sofia Coppola could make a mockumentary showing 24 hours in the life of the most ditzy actress this side of Jessica Simpson.
- Detective Otis Tucker (Courtney B. Vance), "Cookie's Fortune". Maybe this guy doesn't deserve a whole movie but he definitely deserves his own show on FX.
- Gina Callebrese (Elizabeth Rodriguez), "Miami Vice". I have waxed poetically and at length on this miraculous performance/character (in a horrifically underappreciated film) before but it is the movie spin off I most want to see.
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- Mouse Alexander (Don Cheadle), "Devil In A Blue Dress". About an hour (maybe more) into this Denzel Washington driven regular-joe-turned-private-eye the main character's violent, hair-trigger, raucous, boyhood pal turns up with a gun in hand and doesn't take more than a few minutes to unload a bullet into a poor sap's shoulder to glean some necessary info and you think, "Holy gods, who is this dude?!" And it seems like in the blink of an eye, as soon as he has arrived, he is gone. As wonderously rapturous as Jennifer Beals is as the femme fatale title character (have you ever wanted to make love to a voice? Woah! Did I just say that out loud?) and as good as Denzel always is, this movie belongs to Cheadle's Mouse. An entire film belongs to him, too. (Note: Will someone please explain how he didn't get an Oscar nod for this?)- Club Doorman (Craig Robinson), "Knocked Up". No, he doesn't even have a name but I would give it all up to see the trials & tribulations of the most stressed out doorman in the fifty states.
- Carson Wells (Woody Harrelson), "No Country For Old Men". This was my friend Brad's idea, actually, and it's a magnificent one.
- Madeleine White (Jodie Foster), "Inside Man". I don't even need to explain this one.
- Sherman "Preacher" Dudley (LL Cool J), "Deep Blue Sea". Important Note: I'm joking. Or am I?
- Hollywood (Whip Hubley) & Wolfman (Barry Tubb), "Top Gun". Obviously it's too late for this spin off but everyone who came of age in the 80's knows it should have happened.
- Kelly (Anna Faris), "Lost In Translation". Perhaps one day Sofia Coppola could make a mockumentary showing 24 hours in the life of the most ditzy actress this side of Jessica Simpson. - Detective Otis Tucker (Courtney B. Vance), "Cookie's Fortune". Maybe this guy doesn't deserve a whole movie but he definitely deserves his own show on FX.
- Gina Callebrese (Elizabeth Rodriguez), "Miami Vice". I have waxed poetically and at length on this miraculous performance/character (in a horrifically underappreciated film) before but it is the movie spin off I most want to see.
What movie spin off do you most want to see?Source URL: https://extravagancedeplumes.blogspot.com/2010/06/movie-spin-offs-i-want-to-see.html
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