14 DAY TRIAL // The only way this news is going to be exciting to you is if you grew up in the ‘90s, during a time when women lifeguards ran in slow motion and teenaged boys thought David Hasselhoff was the luckiest man alive.
The film project is called “The B Team” and it's going to feature British comedic actor John Cleese as the villain, because we all know that a villain with a British accent is so much cooler. He is going to be a villain that lives his days out on a yacht in the Mediterranean and plans to wreak some havoc on the unsuspecting lifeguards, by hijacking control of some nuclear weapons.
The movie plays on the joke that the cast of the show were actually CIA spies collecting precious information when they began traveling the world at the height of the television series' popularity.
Alexandra Paul, one of the people behind the project, has described “B Team” as “an action comedy with some reality thrown in. We play ourselves, so the audience might not know what is true to life and what is made up for the movie. And that is exactly what we want. Were we really agents for the US government during our heyday? The CIA has used famous people as spies before.”
Due to legal issues, none of the actors is allowed to mention the name of the original show “Baywatch” in the movie, which you would think is nearly impossible under the circumstances, but they've found a way to work around that.
Apparently, they plan to censor the name of the show every time someone utters it by loud sounds like explosions. “It becomes a running joke,” one of the producers reveals “It's a comic device that gets us through a lot of issues.”
Don't worry though, the famous red suits are going to make an appearance, although you're going to find that your ‘90s idols, like Pamela Anderson, have aged a bit since the last time they wore those suits on screen.
The film, which is said to be similar in terms of humor to the Austin Powers series, is going to be shot in Eastern Europe and Italy, around the Mediterranean. Expect self-humor, expect a lot of comedy, expect some trivial police work, but above all, expect a good time.
The men and women behind the project, who starred in the original show at one time or another, confess that the purpose of this new film is to make fun of themselves and of the image that TV actors get in the media today.