Who would you cast in a reboot of I Dream of Jeannie? And how would you update it for a modern audience?
Hard mode: No Sydney Sweeney.
Who would you cast in a reboot of I Dream of Jeannie? And how would you update it for a modern audience?
Who would you cast in a reboot of I Dream of Jeannie? And how would you update it for a modern audience?
Hard mode: No Sydney Sweeney.
Imagine if the bottle and the lid to it was two huge black phalluses
Left hand is white man.
666 with left hand also. Hard to believe, I know, but most likely that fortuitous accident prompted the Satanist magazine editor or photographer (or both) to pick that out of many for publication.
Correct. My left.
>a show about a woman wanting to please a man because she loves him
Yeah no, you'd have to wait another 8-22 years for the zeitgeist in Hollywood to change
Well I did ask how'd you update it for a modern audience. Besides, Jeannie spends more of the show annoying Major Anthony rather than pleasing him.
Since she's a Genie they'd probably cast Sofia Boutella because she's the only Middle Eastern Actress anyone knows. Like even though there's realistically no reason for the actress to be Middle Eastern, they would probably make a big song and dance about it.
The Major would have to work at a mega-corporation that has a rocket department, and his boss would be a billionaire loosely patterns after Musk and Bezos. Naturally now you have a power balance between the world's richest man, and a Genie.
>Besides, Jeannie spends more of the show annoying Major Anthony rather than pleasing him.
Just like my girlfriend, ammiright bros!?
>Like even though there's realistically no reason for the actress to be Middle Eastern, they would probably make a big song and dance about it.
I don't think they'd cast a Middle Eastern actress for Jeannie and a white Major Nelson, that'd be even more controversial. But the Musk and Bezos sort of makes sense. There needs to be room for a Dr. Bellows.
>I don't think they'd cast a Middle Eastern actress for Jeannie and a white Major Nelson, that'd be even more controversial
Good news, he'd be a black man of slim build. Actually I didn't want to go into too many details, he'd either be a gay man... but I think even their target audience of white women would tune out if he was gay because they need the "will they won't they" sexual tension to stay interested. Another option is that the Major is a woman, now you no longer have a political problem with the 'oh yes master' shit. Faux-progressive publications would champion it as an example of fighting the patriarchy, since a woman serves a woman, but actually they are equals or some shit... I don't know. But it still has the 'will they won't they' sexual tension.
> There needs to be room for a Dr. Bellows.
No nonsense lady from H.R.? In fact she's a cynical no nonsense big fat black lady who doesn't take any bullshit from anyone which means it's very hard for her to accept what is going on.
>Actually I didn't want to go into too many details,
Why not? Did you have someone in mind? And yeah, gay man wouldn't work. A female Major Nelson could work... but that'd just be American Dragon Maid, which isn't the worst idea but IDK. The sexism should actually be pretty easy to combat because, for the most part, when you look at the actual series Major Nelson almost never commands her and instead of doing his every whim she's actually making his life worse and much harder with the constant magic hijinks. I think you'd actually (possibly) run into the opposite problem where would people protest the show because you have a woman sexually harassing a man when he doesn't want it, under a modern lens Jeannie could be considered abusive and controlling.
The best bet to make the show work with the male master and female genie would be too change the dynamic completely so that Jeannie and Anthony have a father-daughter relationship instead.
>Why not?
because anons skim over effortposts
>male master and female genie would be too change the dynamic completely so that Jeannie and Anthony have a father-daughter relationship instead.
I get what you're saying it removes the sexual power dynamic are replaces it with a more mentoring role, but think about how that would be misinterpreted:
"older man takes in young naive attractive female"
That's not gonna fly. Remember the question was "how do you modernize it" not "what do you personally think would be an interesting retelling". The assumption is, suggest something that wouldn't get mascaraed at or even before broadcast.
The way I see it, if you genderswap Jeanie, then you basically end up with Mork and Mindy. So you have to keep Jeannie female.
If you make Major Anthony a fatherly figure, then you need to some how make him 'off limits' sexually, the obvious solution is he is a widower or divorcee with a teenage daughter or chronologically pushing it: a preteen son. But now you're veering dangerously close to a ALF type situation: "it's a family who are supporting cast for the paranormal/fantasy element".
The dyad is the essence of Dream of Jeanie/Mork and Mindy and even Bewitched.
>because anons skim over effortposts
I need to go to sleep soon but I'm interested in what you have to say. I actually really like I Dream of Jeannie, but its far from perfect.
>"older man takes in young naive attractive female"
Yeah she would have to be his actual daughter or something. Or maybe not. It could work as is if you cast the right person. I remember I saw someone's blog a year ago where they went in-depth about these kind of shows (I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, and My Living Doll) and the dynamics of how and why they work. They had some really interesting commentary.
>If you make Major Anthony a fatherly figure, then you need to some how make him 'off limits' sexually,
>the obvious solution is he is a widower or divorcee with a teenage daughter or chronologically pushing it: a preteen son.
>But now you're veering dangerously close to a ALF type situation: "it's a family who are supporting cast for the paranormal/fantasy element".
>The dyad is the essence of Dream of Jeanie/Mork and Mindy and even Bewitched.
Yeah, I see what you mean. I can't think of another series of a father raising a single teenage girl to compare to, but I did sort of think of Powerpuff Girls, something in that direction. I have to disagree about Bewitched though, there is no show without Endora.
>Who would you cast in a reboot of I Dream of Jeannie? And how would you update it for a modern audience?
Zendaya, and they/them are a non-binary trans paraplegic lesbian.
gb2pol already you fricking schizo homosexuals
Terrified of Dark Brandon?
Dilate.
Dark Brandon 2024. Chuds are terrified.
Abigail Breslin or Dove Cameron.
>Dove Cameron.
NOT BAD. I was thinking Caylee Cowan. Who would you cast as Major Nelson or Roger?
Ian Harding.
>Ian Harding
Never heard of him but he looks like he could make an alright Major Nelson.
he was the pedo in pretty little liars that got away with fricking multiple 13 year old girls.
oh.
Channing Tatum
Djinns are Middle Eastern therefore I'd cast a bald-headed American negresses who uses they/them pronouns.
>Jeanie high as all frick
She always looks like that.
McKenna Grace and Jon Hamm
id cast an arab girl and force her to wear a super lewd belly dancer outfit at all times.
no burka. because technically genies are from pre islam arabia.
>because technically genies are from pre islam arabia.
Jeannie in the series was from Rome, I'm pretty sure.
Kpop idol comes out of the lamp
I Dream of Gee-unnie?
Yes but I would call it I Dream of BBC
Who would you cast though?
Himself, he's pitching his autobiography
What about Rashida Jones?
She's way too old.
How many wishes did that fricker get?
had a big crush on her as a kid. Wanted my very own pet sexy blonde Jeannie for a girlfriend.
Jeannie is literally the perfect wife.
Daughter was hot.
What daughter?
i imagine idris elba might look convincing in that outfit
>genderbent reboot with Idris Elba as the male genie husband to his female mortal wife
>starring Idris Elba
>scantily clad to show off how buff he is
This would be awesome for gays and women. I'm bisexual so I might dig this too.
reboot with Idris Elba as the male genie husband to his female mortal wife
Idris Elba
clad to show off how buff he is
Isn't that just the new George Miller movie?
>A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
>Who would you cast in a reboot of I Dream of Jeannie?
Sarah Gadon
payaso
Shop dick where bottle is.
>done
>Who would you cast in a reboot of I Dream of Jeannie?
Annasophia Robb.
Mia Khalifa unironically
Joey king would make a good Jeannie.
I can't imagine Joey King playing a submissive or a brat.
some hot chick. full penetration
I thought coomerism was a meme. You people are sick.
A special forces officer discovers Jeannie's bottle while serving in Afghanistan. Returning home they must hide her from a sinister group within the US government who want to enslave her & use her as a weapon. The Major must navigate his new life trying to protect her while infiltrating the same group who wants to take her.
Its your basic gritty supernatural police procedural drama show where Jeannie instead of doing hijinks uses her powers to protect her & the Major with a lot of drama. It would sell like hotcakes
I'd cast an actual unironic 100% Persian. That's part of the whole appeal, a magical Persian grill from 3000 years ago turning your life upside down. So she has to look the part and she has to act ancient, whatever that means.
webm rel, an example of a 100% pure (but sadly Americanised) Persian grill