Twentieth Century Fox Remember that time you watched Lloyd Dobler and Diane Court fall in love? Get ready to do it again!
Apparently, NBC did not listen last week when we said we didn't need more TV shows based on movies from the '80s or '90s, because they're doing it to Say Anything!
E! News has confirmed that NBC has ordered a script for a single-camera comedy that takes place ten years after the end of the 1989 Cameron Crowe movie starring John Cusack and Ione Skye. Apparently, Lloyd and Diane eventually broke up, and at the start of the series, Diane is back in town, so Lloyd tries to win her back.
Aaron Kaplan, whose producing credits include Debra Messing's new NBC series The Mysteries of Laura, Chasing Life, and The Neighbors, will executive produce alongside writer Justin Adler. Adler is known for his work on such excellent comedies as Better off Ted, Samantha Who, and Less than Perfect, which actually makes us slightly more interested in this idea. (Except for the whole Diane dumping Lloyd of it all.)
Say Anything isn't the only movie moving to the small screen. NBC is also revisiting 1985's Real Genius and 1990's Problem Child, while Fox is taking on 1988's Big and 1981's Greatest American Hero. Alongside all the TV shows being brought back in one way or another – Boy Meets World, Twin Peaks, Arrested Development, 24, Heroes, Full House, etc. etc.—TV is about to be the next best thing to an actual time machine.
(E! and NBC are both part of the NBC Universal family.)