Meatballs was the movie that launched Bill Murray onto the big screen, started his collaborations with Harold Ramis, and first put him together with Ivan Reitman. So it probably deserves a notation of some kind in movie history. It is seen as a bawdy classic in the vein of Animal House, Porkys, and the first Police Academy.
The movie followed Tripper Harrison as he leads a group of new counsellors-in-training (CITs) at Camp North Star, a cut-rate summer camp located in Ontario, and leads practical jokes on camp director Morty Melnick, mainly by taking Melnick from his cabin late at night so that he awakens in unusual places.
Rudy Gerner, a lonely boy whose mother died about a year earlier, is sent to summer camp by his workaholic father. Harrison notices Gerner and takes hm under his wing.
Now, according to a report in Deadline, Blink49 Studios and Incendo are set to back a TV series adaptation of Meatballs that will reimagine the film for Canadian streamer Crave. The project is a
“…coming-of-age way-too late story that’s equal parts sweet and sexy”.
What could possibly go wrong? Like the original, this will be set in a failing summer camp for kids and the roles will be… wait for it…
“…gender switched to make it more appropriate for a modern audience”.
Oh, sweet baby Jesus, they never learn, do they? Robbie G.K. (Heated Rivalry) will star in the eight-part series.
