{"id":143105,"date":"2022-11-29T17:43:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/that-90s-show-sets-netflix-premiere-date-producers-discuss-sequel\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T17:43:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:43:05","slug":"that-90s-show-sets-netflix-premiere-date-producers-discuss-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/that-90s-show-sets-netflix-premiere-date-producers-discuss-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"‘That 90s Show’ Sets Netflix Premiere Date, Producers Discuss Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tWhen Netflix first reached out to \u201cThat ’70s Show\u201d creators Bonnie and Terry Turner about rebooting the show and setting it in the 1990s, their answer was swift: No.<\/p>\n
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\t\u201cAnd then we thought about it some more,\u201d says Terry Turner. \u201cAnd we said ‘no’ again.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\tBut the notion had been unlocked. This was during the COVID-19 quarantines, and the Turners had plenty of time stuck indoors to think about it. Meanwhile, Carsey-Werner’s Tom Werner, who successfully brought back \u201cRoseanne\u201d (with one hiccup, of course, leading it to evolve into \u201cThe Conners\u201d), was also in contact and asked the Turners about it as well.<\/p>\n
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\tThe Turners thought about it some more, and started considering it \u2014 but only if they came up with an idea that worked. \u201cOur first pass what that Eric [Topher Grace] had at some point gone to a rock festival and hooked up with someone, leading to an unknown grandchild,\u201d Terry Turner says. \u201cAnd at the doorway shows up a 14- or 15-year-old kid who says he’s Red [Kurtwood Smith] and Kitty’s [Debra Jo Rupp] grandkid.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\tNetflix told them to try it again, as \u201caudiences just don’t warm up\u201d to a surprise love child. The Turners then approached Gregg Mettler \u2014 who wrote for them on \u201c’70s Show\u201d and \u201c3rd<\/sup> Rock from the Sun\u201d \u2014 about taking the reins as showrunner. Together, Mettler and the Turners (including their daughter, Lindsey) cracked a concept.<\/p>\n \n \t\u201cWe agreed amongst ourselves, we weren’t going to do it unless we could find a reason,\u201d Lindsey Turner says. \u201cAnd the thing that Greg said that I really loved, and I know mom and dad did too was, the ’90s was the last time that people were looking up, they weren’t looking down at their phones. It was that last place of a real kind of engagement, having to make your own fun and really connecting with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n \n \tThe fruits of their 10-episode, live-action \u201cThat ’90s Show,\u201d starring Smith, Rupp, and a young troupe of newcomers, premieres Jan. 19 on the streamer. Variety has a first look at the teaser trailer and cast photos; scroll down for more.<\/p>\n \n \t\u201cI wanted to have the same feeling as ‘That 70s Show did,\u201d Mettler says. \u201cThe show had a very special tone. It was playful, it had a heart, it was sarcastic, it was filled with love within this family, within the friend group. I missed being in the basement with those kids.\u201d<\/p>\n \n \tIn \u201cThat ’90s Show,\u201d Eric and Donna (Laura Prepon) are married and have a 15-year-old daughter, Leia. (\u201cEric would have totally named his daughter Leia,\u201d Mettler says of the \u201cStar Wars\u201d-inspired name. \u201cThat whole notion made me smile so much that I knew I had something to build on.\u201d) One summer, Leia winds up visiting her grandparents, Red and Kitty, who are still living in the Forman family home in Point Place, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n