Eric’s Bad Movies at Film.com has your Thanksgiving turkey: “Kull the Conqueror,” a goofy sword-and-sandals caper starring Kevin Sorbo in what was supposed to be the Arnold Schwarzenegger role, back when it was going to be a third Conan movie. Apparently Kull and Conan are interchangeable; I suspect all they really had to do was change the title and execute a “search and replace” in the script.
Next week’s film was based on a TV show and stars someone who had previously starred in a much-beloved teen comedy. This star has subsequently found his or her greatest success not in film but in a different medium altogether. Guesses?
I call “Inspector Gadget”!!
Dave is right, definitely Inspector Gadget. Broderick was in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and is famous for The Producers on Broadway. Hooray!
Broderick also starred as Harold Hill in a revival of “The Music Man”. But his roll in “The Producers” was his biggest hit. My favorite movie that he starred in, though, was “Ladyhawk”.
*Checks archives*
Has’t done it yet, so I guess it’s Gadget.
Dangit! I had this one guessed last week (star and context) but not the title. Anyway, Inspector Gadget seems to fit perfectly. I’ve been wanting to watch Ladyhawk again lately. Great movie even with the 80s out of context music:)
So the Producers was a bigger success than War Games or Ferris Bueller? 😉 (Or marrying Sarah Jessica Parker?) Hmm, on second though, I guess so.
The very act of marrying Sarah Jessica Parker is a colossal failure in my eyes.
Kull and Conan are only interchangeable in that they are both black-haired barbarians who became kings of civilized nations.
In every other respect, they are very different: Kull was celibate and uninterested in sex, while Conan was the prototypical lusty barbarian; Kull was philosophical and given to much brooding, while Conan was more interested in the here and now; Kull was a slave, Conan never was, etc.