High Fidelity the TV show ?

“High Fidelity” TV Series in the Works, Starring a Woman | Pitchfork

A new television series based on the 2000 film High Fidelity is in the works. Disney is developing the project for its upcoming streaming services, according to Deadline. Unlike the original film starring John Cusack as lovelorn record store owner Rob Gordon, however, the new series will star a female lead.

 

What’s truly startling is that the movie is now 18 years old. That’s crazy.

 

Terrible idea. A series based on High Fidelity might be OK, but that character won't work as a woman. And enough with the damn gender-flipping already; come up with an original idea instead.

 

Woman vinyl junkie????
Very rare, very rare ..unique in fact.

 

A woman, they really don't get the world of record shops and obsessive record collecting, the fact that some pursuits and behaviours are predominantly dominated by one gender or the other doesn't have anything to do with gender equality, it makes about as much sense as casting women as serial killers in all new films. I know women who are musicians, deejays and serious record collectors, women with a great depth of knowledge about music and records, but none of them cross that line of dysfunctional obsessiveness that so many men do, it just doesn't work with a female lead.

 

A woman record collector who reorganizes her collection autobiographically? Too far fetched!

 

When does "The Woman from A.U.N.T." premiere?

 

Warped idea. They need to cut out these crazy remakes. This show will be scratched in record time.

 

But vinyl is so cool and hip now. Shouldn't she run a vintage CD store?

 

Let's face it, this show would probably suck regardless of the gender swap.

 

I don't know. I'd watch a weekly 30 minute sit-com about a depressed owner of a vintage music store and his (or her) obsessive music collector friends. I still think they should make it a CD shop rather than vinyl. Maybe they could get ahold of one of the ultra-rare Aerosmith "Rocks" SACDs!

 

This doesn't sound good. Even with a male lead, it's probably bound to fail.

 

Aside from MASH, what other movie premise has translated well over to television? I mean sure, this one might be an exception, but the track history isn't favorable.

 

Stargate would be one.

 

Yep, I had forgotten about that one.

 

Maybe - maybe not. Sometimes a show that is based on great earlier material actuals works on its own merits; MASH, Bates Motel, Fargo. But yes there are countless more that bombed. All depending on the writing and show runner....

 

Are they going to set this show in the current age or is it going to be circa 1960s/1970s/1980s? This could be an interesting period piece in a lot of ways if the writing is up to snuff. I really don't care about the gender of the lead.

 

That's not the only thing they are changing. The TV show will be PG-13 to fit in with Disney's family friendly approach and will be a departure from the both the book and the movie. It'll be "an optimistic-in-tone mixtape/diary rom-com."

This article delivers more cringe worthy details: 'High Fidelity' Is Being Turned into a Disney TV Series

Basically they're just piggy backing off the High Fidelity IP for marketing purposes.

 

NOOOOOO!

 

That's too bad. I could imagine an acceptable kinda Disney show focused around a Cool Record Store Chick and her wacky colleagues and customers, but I don't know what value bringing the High Fidelity name into it is going to add, given the target audience. Trying to hook the parents too?

 

My aunt; unfortunately she passed away several years ago.

 

See post above.

 

Yeah, making it Disney friendly and focusing on the romantic comedy aspect doesn't sound interesting to me at all. Sounds like something that would be on the CW.

 

Disney often has the best ideas...and then somebody steps in to "make them better".

They should have left it at, "Disney is starting a streaming service".

Yes, Mickey, we get it: every time you develop a product now, it has to include a "Disney princess" iconic, strong-female-type character who can serve as a role model and elevate the lead cast member to inspire young girls to...grow older, watch a lot of ABC network shows, where every show eventually has to take a vacation to a Disney property, decide to buy an old record shop, and hope someday John Cusak and Jack Black will swoop in to take it off your hands because YOU ARE A TERRIBLE BUSINESS PERSON.

(as evidenced by your decision to buy into the notion that you could actually be under 40 and start a record shop)