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--- In MaryStuartMasterson@yahoogroups.com, "dnycanales1965"
<dnycanales@...> wrote:
>
> On Claudia's website http://www.mary-stuart-masterson.com/ she
asks
> what actor would we want to see her teamed up with. I'd like to
> clarify my comments on what a SKOW II would look like (not a
remake).
>
> What I meant is not a remake, but to make SKOW II, 20 years
later.
> MSM and Eric would play Watts and Keith, 20 years later, married
to
> each other and with kids. They would be the same persons, but
grown
> up and later in life, where they are now. The main part of the
> story would be a love story, ala John Hughes style, of one of
their
> teenage kids, it would not be about Watts and Keith. As the
signal
> characters from SKOW, they would have much, much more than a cameo
> role, maybe a minor, touching subplot - but not the main plot. If
> the story were about them, it would fail both creatively and
> artistically, after all, you can't recapture a special moment (it
> would end up tacky or silly). But as more than a cameo, maybe a
> poignant small subplot, it would work handsomely, and would be the
> perfect link with the original SKOW (especially for us 30-40
> somethings). Now, Lea Thompson and Elias Koteas can do cameos -
> that would work. How about Lea as one of the HS teachers? Or, get
> this, Elias as a police officer? Craig Shaeffer is a fine actor -
> but he wouldn't be needed. If he were to do a cameo, maybe as a
> successful businessman (no bitterness from the past is needed).
>