‘Reality Bites’ Will Become a TV Series on Peacock – ScreenCrush

Few movies are more firmly associated with the era in which they were made thanReality Bites, Ben Stillers90s romantic comedy about the ups and downs in the love lives of a trio of Generation Xers played by Stiller, Ethan Hawke, and Winona Ryder. Its hard to imagine the film taking place at any other time, or capturing anything other than that 90s sense of malaise.

But obviously someone at Peacock can, because theyve ordered aReality Bites series. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, the new show is a reframing of the original, but like the classic movie, the Peacock take is centered on the driven, idealistic Lelaina Pierce and her three best friends as they leave college and try adulting in the 1990s. As the world around them is on the brink of a seismic shift, they struggle to hold onto who they are, and to each other.

I mean, I guess reality bites now more than ever, so the title still works anyway. The writer of the original movie,Helen Childress, is attached to the Peacock series as writer.

Believe it or not, this isnot the first time an attempt to make aReality BitesTV series. Back in 2013, Ben Stiller himself was paired withChildress to write a script for their own take on a Reality Bitesseries for NBC. Thatversion ofthe project never quite came together, though. Why? Who knows, but obviously the issues could probably be chalked up to the fact that reality ... uh ... line? Anyway, well see if this version actually makes it to streaming.

The very famous people struggled to play fictional versions of themselves in movies. Apparently, that is not as easy to do as it looks.

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