merari42@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoWhat other movies wouldn't work today?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10
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minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 months agoYou couldn’t make Blazing Saddles these days. They’d take one look at the script and go spoiler “We can’t make this, this is Blazing Saddles, they made it 50 years ago. Do you want Mel Brooks to sue us?”
minus-squareQueen HawlSera@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoFunny story Mel Brooks actually did an animated version of Blazing Saddles called The Legend of Hank to prove that he absolutely could make it today. It’s basically the same concept but with samurai instead of cowboys. “Ain’t no business like shogun business.”
You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles these days. They’d take one look at the script and go
spoiler
“We can’t make this, this is Blazing Saddles, they made it 50 years ago. Do you want Mel Brooks to sue us?”
Funny story Mel Brooks actually did an animated version of Blazing Saddles called The Legend of Hank to prove that he absolutely could make it today.
It’s basically the same concept but with samurai instead of cowboys.
“Ain’t no business like shogun business.”