Grange Hill: The Movie

[George White]

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jan/05/phil-redmond-interview-grange-hill-the-movie

Another ambiitous but utterly doomed endeavour from Sir Phil, eh?
Another to add to the list of doomed adaptations of UK kids' TV properties like Russell Brand's Rentaghost, John Hannah, Ben Kingsley and Jane Horrocks in Mr. Benn, Nick Frost's Pugwash, that c.2008 UFO revival...

[idunnosomename]

Who the fuck could possibly give a shit about this? Boggles the mind

[Brundle-Fly]

'Boggles' was my favourite Grange Hill character though.

[Fambo Number Mive]

I reckon they will try to get at least one of the former cast members to make a cameo.

I can't see how it would work as a film though. What would be the stand out events for a 90 minute to 2 hours film? You never had Waterloo Road or Ackley Bridge the film.

I imagine it will be a school trip or something and they think there is a ghost and it turns out to be one of the original cast at the end trying to escape from a serial killer.

Or the school is about to be closed and they travel to the House of Commons for a sit in to protest it and the Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) says "tough, we're giving all the money to academies run by Tory donors" and one backbench Labour MP (Paddy Constatine) fights their cause.

Or the sausage from the original credits comes alive and only a couple of pupils are aware of this. They spend the film trying to track it down, and end up battling it in the gym.

Grange Hill was really good at first but slowly became rubbish, I hope the film is more like the first twenty or so series.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

'Boggles' was my favourite Grange Hill character though.

Yeah.  He'd fly in with his bi-plane, in his leather jacket, goggles and the cap with the sheepskin ear-flaps, give some rogue a bunch of fives, puff on that pipe of his while the girls cheered and swooned over his square-jawed good looks, then fly out with a cheerful 'pip pip, old chaps!'

[beanheadmcginty]

Considering how popular films based on comic books are, I expect this to be based on the opening credits only.

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Imagine the subtle references to the original theme tune and the flying sausage's cameo appearance.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Can they get Roland back working as some form of administrative assistant to the head teacher, a bit like they did with Screech in the later Saved by the Bell reboots?

[Small Man Big Horse]

Not related to the film but according to that article:

"It's astonishing how many people tell me it was their favourite programme. Especially politicians," says Redmond, before roaring with laughter. "David Cameron told me his favourite character was [school bully] Gripper Stebson. It breaks the ice when you're trying to get them to do things."

Which is mad if true, I mean for one thing I fucking hated Gripper, he was a right bastard turd, and surely no one would proudly say they loved a character who was designed to be despised and think they'd come out well from it?

[imitationleather]

Is it going to be aimed at kids or people who are old enough to remember the TV show?

Either way it's a totally fucking daft idea.

[thecuriousorange]

I only know the 90s one, which was what Byker Grove would be if it also showed them going to school and wearing uniforms.

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Theme tune lyrics:


It's Grange Hill yes
Very very much so
It's Grange Hill yes
Is Grange Hill

It is Grange Hiiiiiiilll
It is Grange Hiiiiiiilll
It is Grange Hill, it is Grange Hill
Look out, it is Grange Hill (it's Grange Hill)
Graange Hill
It is Grange Hill

[kidsick5000]

Will it include the massive twist that it was in Liverpool all along?

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Will it include the massive twist that it was in Liverpool all along?

Is Liverpool the place where everyone is "a character"?  If so you're thinking of the Byker Grove movie.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Will it include the massive twist that it was in Liverpool all along?

Which is a bit weird when that Scouse lad Ziggy was shown being singled out as an outsider over his Liverpudlian accent, with taunts of 'y'what, y'what, y'what-y'what-y'what,' when he started in 1985/86.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I only know the 90s one, which was what Byker Grove would be if it also showed them going to school and wearing uniforms.

byker grove was miles better

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byker grove was miles better

Which causes the best kind of blindness:  paintballs or flying sausages

[dissolute ocelot]

Is this going to be like the film of 21 Jump Street where a 35 year old Channing Tatum gets the kids to record a song about the evils of heroin and they all team up to take down the drug dealers and there are car chases and at least 20 people drown in a swimming pool? It could work.

Or just have Francesca Martinez in a parody of that one where Michelle Pfeiffer is a teacher. That  could also work.

Or like the Blob but with sausages. Michael Gove hates blobs. And probably sausages.

[Custard]

There's a brilliant horror film to be made out of the night a few of them broke into the school to spend a night there and possibly bump into Danny Kendall's ghost

"Four stars, I plopped my boxers right bad!" screams Mark Kermode in the Sunday Times

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"I failed to say no, and now here I am all glazed over against the radiator"

[Glebe]

Sausage on fork in opening credits or GTFO.

[mothman]

It'll be like that Banana Splits horror film a couple of years back: who exactly will this be for?

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

I only know the 90s one, which was what Byker Grove would be if it also showed them going to school and wearing uniforms.

And had a cracking theme tune

[Ron Maels Moustache]

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jan/05/phil-redmond-interview-grange-hill-the-movie

Another ambiitous but utterly doomed endeavour from Sir Phil, eh?
Another to add to the list of doomed adaptations of UK kids' TV properties like Russell Brand's Rentaghost, John Hannah, Ben Kingsley and Jane Horrocks in Mr. Benn, Nick Frost's Pugwash, that c.2008 UFO revival...

Those Blake 7 TV movies Martin Campbell was supposed to be directing, Bananaman: The Movie, Neil Cross's Sapphire & Steel reboot, etc, etc.

Although to be fair to Redmond, it sounds like he has in mind more of a "state of education in the 2020s" narrative using Grange Hill as a framework, rather than just "'member Zammo? 'member Mr Bronson? etc"

[jobotic]

Some great ideas here.

We should send them to Phil in an email titled WE ONLY WANT TO HELP YOU REDMOND

[Gurke and Hare]

Not related to the film but according to that article:

Which is mad if true, I mean for one thing I fucking hated Gripper, he was a right bastard turd, and surely no one would proudly say they loved a character who was designed to be despised and think they'd come out well from it?

Yeah, but it's Cameron who can't even remember which football team he supports from day to day. The full quote was probably "Gripper was my favourite, I loved the episode where he drowns in the swimming pool and then gets battered by Booga Benson for grassing him up."

[Bad Ambassador]

Any respect I had for proud scouser Redmond evaporated when he took a knighthood from a Tory government. As with former socialist campaigner Vanessa Redgrave, who now pals around with sexual abuser Kevin Spacey.

[Fambo Number Mive]

They should bring back a character from the tv series but twist is...they are a serial killer.

[Glebe]

"Roly, they're making a Grange Hill movie, reckon it could be any good?"

[Yussef Dent]

The one storyline I remember from the one in the 90s was when they went on a German exchange, and at a disco ran into some young Nazis who racially abused a black girl.