How would you reboot it?

How would you reboot it?

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I wouldn't

Porn

They're all trannies. Have a couple episodes focused on them giving kids abortions.

Be clever

>every thread someone brings this movie up
Look, that movie wasn't clever ok they just made a 00s MTV/TRL era spoof of an old cartoon

The thing about Jem is that the original series was heavy with melodrama not a silly comedy (though it might seem so unintentionally at times), it wouldn't work as pure satire or a goofy joke

Same as the comic, maybe dial it back a bit on the general everything-must-be-represented vibe.

I'd call it "Jim" and make her a transman.

>JIM
>JIM HAS TRANSITIONED
>OOOO JIM
>JIM IS A MAN NOW
>OOOOO
>HORMONES, PROSTHETICS, PADDING AND SHAME OOO JIM

>JIM IS MY NAME
>MY PRONOUNS ARE INSANE
>JIM IS MY NAME

A E S T H E T I C

Is this what they call tumblr humor

Excuse me, that was humher, you chauvinist.

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Jem is excitement

It's probably not gonna get anytime soon. A girl band going through shenanigans is pretty much already covered with EqG

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I find this so cute for some reason

Use the classic characters once more but in a continuous narrative. Modernize everything.

ALTERNATELY

Redesign all the characters as minorities and make them all rappers. Rap is already the best storytelling musical genre, it would make a great combination.

Addendum: make Stormer the Great White Hope.

Or Clash.

*Cracks fingers*

I'd transform the show into a competition for a record deal with the biggest company in the beginning. Think of that movie pitch perfect, its something like that. With Jerrica asked to participate because of her singing abilities by her friends. Jem at this point is not real as her real identity is Jerrica. Jerrica is shy and comes up with Jem as an alternate persona that can get her to perform on stage. They encounter several other including the Misfits, led by Pizzazz, who is not rich but poor and comes from a broken family. She is the polar opposite to Jem and as such they develop a bit of a rivalry to see who is better. Jem has the energy and happy vibe that can get people moving while Pizzazz has the emotion and raw music ability that creates incredible music that can make people pause and listen to the sound she creates. You can think of it like each artist has their own style similar to Madonna and Paramore. Eventually Jerrica develops a dissociative personality disorder and Jem begins to take over and become a bit of an asshole especially to Pizzazz, which will eventually cement her hatred for Jem. This will also affect her relationship with her friends too until Jerrica can get her personality under control again. Though by this time it will be too late. A winner will be announced and that will lead to a new story line dealing with the aftermath in the later seasons. That's just season 1.

Also there's the comic relief who is like the Ricky Martin of that world, funny but competent in his music.

trying too hard, m8

Don't forget to make it outrageous. This is where the movie failed.

That's more of a musical talent show story than a Jem Story.

Jem needs to be unlike anything out there.

You underestimate the story. The competition is just to get things started. It is the main goal but the majority of the story takes place outside. Once the competition is over, it will no longer be the focus. Their focus will shift internationally as they begin their music careers and dealing with some of the fall out from season one. As it will turn out the biggest record company is actually evil and is currently using the winner to lay foundations to other venues around the world to push their "products" unto the masses. They are aware of the rivalry with Jem and the Misfits and use that as a cover by upping the anger to crazy proportions and then covering it up if it gets too big.

^This

It really does amaze me that there isn't more of it

Just make it like rainbow rocks.

Jem can easily be a pop idol but not so sure about the whole Misfits rivalry. Why would a punk band give a shit about a pop star ever?

All the music in Jem was "pop" music regardless of the fictional band, the Holograms were presented as the more mainstream media darling act with songs about positibity while the Misfits were presented as the edgy act with songs mostly about being selfish decadent brats, it doesn't really matter what kind of music they were since the whole thing was an over dramatic cartoon portrayal of the music business for kids

Positivity*

Adapt the comic but with a less Campbell aesthetic.

>Why would a punk band give a shit about a pop star ever?
Punk formed as a reaction to people's frustration about pop music.

Isn't that basically Jiz?

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>>JIM IS MY NAME
>>MY PRONOUNS ARE INSANE
>>JIM IS MY NAME

Alright. You worked WAY too hard for that, but you did get a chuckle out of me.

Jem and the Holograms is so inherently 80s. I think the only they could do with it is to keep it in the 80s. Maybe even make it more flamboyant and sensational. They'd fix some more outdated and offensive tropes and boom.
Perfect.

Think they would ever bring back the homely nerd cosplaying as a hot pop idol ever again?

Seems like that might trigger a few too many these days

In some fictional idealized version of the 80's where everyone has big hair and pink spandex, David Bowie is the president and David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen are the two rivals who run LA with a one-gloved fist.

A normal girl stumbles upon her father's final masterpiece, a skynet styled supercomputer that can help Jerrica become one of the pink spandexed idols that can rise to the top.

Darn it all Sup Forums, I wrote this out but I lost it. Let me see what I can piece together from memory.

>It's a Kampfer situation
>Planet of Light-based lifeforms having civil war
>The weapons could destroy the universe, so they decide on a non-violent competition instead
>Representative of each side goes to low-tech planet in uninhabited zone
>Partner with natives to create musical entertainment for both planets
>Humans must be relatively unknown based on intercepted transmissions
>Limited direct communication with X number of humans allowed
>Only natrual Light-controlling abilities allowed, no tech
>Humans must wear "Representative armor" of their party during performances, to prove that it is the assistance of the alien. Since the pinacle of their fashion is equivalent to the Earth's 80's, they're dressed accordingly
>Most entertaining, via Earth's popular vote after X number of years, is the winner, and all other parties must surrender peaceably
>Synergy is chosen for her side's representative, as she is a famous entertainer and choreographer
>Gets {X Earth Months} head start for winning coin toss
>Chooses Jerrica and her friends, as she concludes they have the most potential.
>Synergy teaches them how to make mathematically perfect music relative to their people's biology, resulting in multiple hit songs
>Also makes cool light shows for concerts
>Jem and the Holograms is a hit
>Months later
>group trying to be knockoff Holograms encounters next alien
>Become the Misfits
>Sabotage by humans mostly, until the alien of the Misfits finds a loophole, makes lasers during Misfit concerts that inconvenience Synergy
>Ends with literal battle of the bands using lasers
>When the other aliens find out, the temporary truce gets broken and they head for Earth as their battleground, as humans are considered lessers
>Misfits and Holograms need to make a hit song together to convince them not to destroy the Earth.

And THAT'S how you make a good reboot movie.