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The Inbetweeners (2012) - general discussion
DIR By: Sylwia
Date: January 21, 2018, 8:35 am
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A series of 12 episodes. Taika did the Pilot in January 2011,
the show was picked up and he did four more episodes.
The Inbetweeners premiered on 20th Aug 2012.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=950-4oaMQgY
Created by Iain Morris and Damon Beesley
Written and produced by Brad Copeland with Iain Morris, Damon
Beesley and Aaron Kaplan
Starring Joey Pollari, Bubba Lewis, Zack Pearlman and Mark L.
Young
About the show
Will, Simon, Jay and Neil aren’t losers. They aren’t
popular either. Not yet. They exist somewhere in the middle.
Just four friends plotting a course through the awkward and
often humiliating journey of being a teenager. Finding strength
in their shared shortcomings… mostly by mocking each
other. Because that’s what friends are for.
Based on the hit British series, The Inbetweeners is a show
about the days you never forget. An authentic peek at a group of
teenagers charging into adulthood the way we all do… by
taking one step forward and three steps back.
HTML https://www.facebook.com/MTVinbetweeners
[spoiler=Articles]
HTML http://deadline.com/2010/12/mtvs-inbetweeners-finds-cast-director-89333/
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> MTV's 'Inbetweeners' Finds Cast & Director
> by Nellie Andreeva
> December 8, 2010
>
> EXCLUSIVE: MTV has assembled the quartet of leads for its
remake of the award-winning British series The Inbetweeners,
which was greenlighted to pilot in September. Joey Pollari
(Avalon High), Bubba Lewis (To Save a Life), The Virginity Hit
star Zack Pearlman and Mark L. Young (Big Love) are set to star
in the high-school comedy described as Superbad meets Freeks and
Geeks. It revolves around four high school boys (Pollari, Lewis,
Pearlman, Young) who belong to the “inbetweeners”
social class — teens who are not the most cool and popular
but not geeky enough to be branded uncool. Taika Waititi (The
Flight of the Concords) is set to direct the pilot, which is
slated to begin production on January 10 in Orlando. Brad
Copeland wrote the adaptation and serves as the showrunner. He
is executive producing with Iain Morris and Damon Beesley,
creators of the original series, and Aaron Kaplan of Kapital
Entertainment. This marks the fourth pilot for 18-month-old
Kapital Entertainment.
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Taika in an interview for NZ Herald from 17 February 2011,
HTML http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10706734
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> While he recently directed the pilot for a US MTV remake of
hit UK comedy The Inbetweeners, and is waiting to hear if the
show will go ahead, Waititi has not decided if he will direct
the series himself.
>
> "Even if the show gets picked I don't have to commit to doing
it just because I directed the pilot. I can decide on that
later."
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HTML http://deadline.com/2011/03/mtv-picks-up-inbetweeners-to-series-119112/
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> MTV Picks Up 'Inbetweeners' To Series
> by Nellie Andreeva
> March 31, 2011
>
> MTV has picked up its remake of the award-winning British
series The Inbetweeners to series with a 12-episode order. Brad
Copeland wrote the adaptation and serves as the showrunner. He
is executive producing with Iain Morris and Damon Beesley,
creators of the original series, and Aaron Kaplan of Kapital
Entertainment.
>
> The Inbetweeners, which was greenlighted to pilot in
September, stars Joey Pollari (Avalon High), Bubba Lewis (To
Save a Life), The Virginity Hit star Zack Pearlman and Mark L.
Young (Big Love) in a high school comedy described as Superbad
meets Freaks and Geeks. It revolves around four high school boys
(Pollari, Lewis, Pearlman, Young) who belong to the
“inbetweeners” social class — teens who are
not the most cool and popular but not geeky enough to be branded
uncool. Taika Waititi (The Flight of the Concords) directed the
pilot. This marks the third series pickup for Kapital
Entertainment out of four produced pilots. The company has three
more pilots now filming at the broadcast networks.
>
> There is no word yet on the future of another high-profile
British adaptation at MTV, controversial teen drama Skins, which
recently wrapped its first season. Unlike the racy, sexually
charged Skins, Inbetweeners is said to be a more innocent and
sweet look at coming-of-age. The Inbetweeners pickup follows
another recent order of a new scripted series, drama I Just Want
My Pants Back.
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HTML http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10724106
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> Waititi chosen for hit show
> 7 May, 2011
> By: Bevan Hurley
>
> Taika Waititi is to direct a remake of hit British comedy The
Inbetweeners.
>
> MTV will make at least one series on the strength of a pilot
directed by the LA-based Kiwi star.
>
> "I'm going to be doing at least three episodes ... it's going
to be filmed in Florida in the hottest, most humid time of the
year.
>
> "I'm coming back for the World Cup in September and I don't
want anything clashing with that." [...]
>
> He said The Inbetweeners was about four high school boys and
the remake would be "relatively faithful" to the original, which
screens on UKTV on Friday nights.
>
> Waititi recently returned to Los Angeles to finish film
scripts.
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In August 2011, I posted an update on my WOT website
HTML https://worldoftaika.com/2011/08/16/boy-to-be-released-in-the-u-s-in-fall-this-year/,
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> The shooting of The Inbetweeners started in Orlando, Florida
last week on 8th August and will last until 24th October. That
means if Taika has to stay in America till the last day of the
shooting, he won’t get to see the Rugby World Cup in his
homeland, which is pretty sad and I feel sorry for him.
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In September, Taika spent a couple days back in New Zealand and
gave some interviews. One of them was in Dominion Post and the
other in TV Guide.
HTML http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/culture/5678420/Boy-Wonder
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> Now Waititi is deep in the middle of another American project,
working on a TV series for MTV, a channel otherwise "renowned
for shows about children who get pregnant", he quips.
>
> The show is The Inbetweeners, a transplant from Britain where
the original series was such a huge success that it's spawned a
hit film.
>
> Waititi has already directed the first four episodes, and he's
about to head back to the US to do the season finale.
>
> Both versions follow a group of four teenage schoolboys
– "the invisible group", he says, the sort who "just glide
through school not really being picked on too much, but not at
all being popular".
>
> "They basically just pass their time trying to have sex,
trying to get girlfriends, trying to get alcohol, and just going
through all those experiences that people in college, high
school, do."
>
> There are plenty of quirks to filming in the US, he says. The
actors who play the schoolboys are all in their early 20s
– "that's classic". Most of the swearing and smut from the
British show has had to be excised from the script. "We're not
allowed to be as crass as the UK version, because the standards
in the States are way higher ... It's really hard. You've got to
do weird versions where you're making alternative swearwords."
>
> There have been personal challenges too, such as spending
weeks sweating in the heat of Orlando, Florida, the theme-park
town where the series is being filmed.
>
> "Orlando's not the most picturesque town I've ever been to,"
he says, laughing.
>
> But it does have some perks. For one, it's got an "anywhere in
America" feel, perfect for the show's fictional location.
>
> For another, it's helped him focus on his writing. And Waititi
is a writer, a creator. He cooked up Boy and his first feature
Eagle vs Shark, and his two breakout short films from scratch.
>
> You get the feeling he's comfortable in his own head, teasing
out the next little bit of whimsy.
>
> "I think the good thing about going somewhere boring like
Orlando is that it forces you to just work," he says. "There's
nothing else to do. It's very hard to write somewhere like New
York, because you just want to go out."
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TV Guide, 1-7 October 2011
HTML https://i.imgur.com/ne1NWwA.jpg[/spoiler]
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