Once upon a time, there was an announcement of a Baywatch movie that then seemed to go nowhere, and the world rejoiced. But that cheer was too much, too soon, as our hopes and dreams became crushed upon the announcement that the Baywatch film is still going forward and has hit the point where a script is written and a director has been are being hired! Luck may be on our side, because the director hired is Robert Ben Garant, who is actually pretty good at giving us entertaining Hollywood fun. The script is written by Peter Tolan, but as Garant is a good writer himself, things might get polished up a bit. In any case, we should be having people in red swimsuits jiggling up and down the beach sooner than later! I can only hope that this film does well enough that we get a Baywatch Nights movie. Now that is a show that needs an ongoing film series!
If you haven’t read Garant and Thomas Lennon’s book Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at The Box Office and You Can Too!, you need to, as it hilariously exposes and skewers how Hollywood writing is done.