Long before The Brady Bunch Movie became a surprise smartass hit in 1995, series creator Sherwood Schwartz and his son, Brady Bunch producer Lloyd, were hard at work on their own movie adaptation. In the Schwartz version, the sitcom family sees a crime and enters the witness protection program, a straight-ahead comedy with no satire whatsoever. The ‘90s were a fertile time for movie versions of classic TV shows — Batman, The Fugitive, The Addams Family — so studios were interested.
The Schwartzes revised their screenplay multiple times until a version featuring the Bradys held captive by escaped convicts got the greenlight. But this rendition of the movie wasn’t meant to be. The studio executive who approved the project got fired, and new producers threw out the Schwartz script.
Lloyd was furious, but the Schwatzes agreed to read a different script that brought the stuck-in-the-’70s Bradys into the ‘90s. Ugh! The new screenplay was “thoroughly off-putting,...
The Schwartzes revised their screenplay multiple times until a version featuring the Bradys held captive by escaped convicts got the greenlight. But this rendition of the movie wasn’t meant to be. The studio executive who approved the project got fired, and new producers threw out the Schwartz script.
Lloyd was furious, but the Schwatzes agreed to read a different script that brought the stuck-in-the-’70s Bradys into the ‘90s. Ugh! The new screenplay was “thoroughly off-putting,...
- 8/19/2025
- Cracked
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