Plans For 'Say Anything' TV Series Scrapped After Complaints By Cameron Crowe And John Cusack [UPDATE]

'Say Anything' Series Scrapped

EARLIER: A Deadline.com report published on Monday night revealing that "Say Anything" was being turned into a TV series for NBC didn't just catch fans of the iconic 1989 romantic comedy off-guard; it was also news to Cameron Crowe, the film's writer-director, as well as actor John Cusack.

The Hollywood stars quickly pulled out the digital equivalent of a boombox and held it up high. Let's just say it wasn't playing a love song:

Cusack also had some thoughts, tweeting "Hell no!!" when asked if he was involved and adding:

An official synopsis cited by Entertainment Weekly says the show picks up the story 10 years later.

"Lloyd Dobler has long since been dumped by Diane Court and life hasn’t exactly turned out like he thought," the synopsis cited by EW reads. "But when Diane surprisingly returns home, Lloyd is inspired to ‘dare to be great’ once again, get Diane back and reboot his life."

Fans of the film shared many of the same sentiments as Crowe and Cusack:

Did all executives get together and pull "rom-com" out of a hat? RT @hitfix NBC orders 'Say Anything…,' a TV rom-com follow-up to the movie

— Jaime J. Weinman (@weinmanj) October 7, 2014

Deadline.com reports that while NBC technically doesn't need permission or cooperation from Crowe, it appears unlikely that the show will proceed without his support.

Before You Go

Sandy And Danny From 'Grease'
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This couple's inevitable breakup has nothing to do with them being so different and everything to do with Sandy getting fed up with Danny using all her hair gel if they ever moved in together. Get your own, Danny Zuko. Get your own.
Alison And Ben From 'Knocked Up'
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Yeah, because relationships built on the solid foundation of a drunken one-night-stand always work out. (Oh, we kid, we kid.)
Blane And Andie From 'Pretty In Pink'
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Why do Andy and Blane break up? Because any scenario where Andy doesn't eventually end up with Ducky (pictured above) is a travesty.
Ben And Elaine From 'The Graduate'
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We think Ben and Elaine got married -- then promptly got divorced. The only thing worse than a meddling mother-in-law? A meddling mother-in-law you had an affair with. Yikes.
Dionne And Murray From 'Clueless'
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Sorry, guys, Dionne and Murray's love is just too tumultuous to make it past the twelfth grade. Unless Cher plays mediator for them for the rest of their lives, there's no way Dionne and Murray are going to stay together. Sad, but true.
Annie And Sam From 'Sleepless In Seattle'
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What spelled disaster for these two? That moment at the end of movie where Sam's 8-year-old son tells a taxi driver, "I'm going to meet my new mom!" Slow it down, guys.
Tracy And Dexter From 'The Philadelphia Story'
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Yep, we're going old school with this one. Tracy had the option of choosing a safe nice guy (played by Jimmy Stewart) or Dexter, the charismatic bad boy (played by Cary Grant) she'd already divorced once before. She chose the latter. Good luck with that, girl.
Zack And Laney From 'She's All That'
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Laney is too cool to stick with someone who'd place a mean makeover bet on her with his pals. We're guessing she hightailed it to art school on the east coast, sans Zack.
Jerry And Dorothy From 'Jerry Maguire'
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"You complete me." "You had me at hello." These two are going to run out of sweet nothings to say to each other eventually -- and it's not going to be pretty.
Edward And Vivian From 'Pretty Woman'
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Is it just us, or did Edward spend the majority of "Pretty Woman" trying to change poor Vivian? "Buy new clothes," "stop fidgeting!" "put a coat on." Rude. In our ending, Viv says buh bye to Edward, gets her GED and eventually becomes a kick-ass businesswoman in her own right.

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