At Last...Troop Beverly Hills Part Deux

After eighteen years in development hell cameras are set to roll on June 1st for “Troop Beverly Hills Part Deux: Nefler’s Navy”. The film has had many writers and directors over the years. Carrie Fisher, Emma Thompson and Charlie Kauffman have all taken a stab at the script but none of them could recreate the magic of the original. In fact Ben Affleck and Matt Damon tried to make it their follow up writing project to “Good Will Hunting” but even that dynamic Oscar Winning duo couldn’t flush out a workable script. The project didn’t have any better luck with directors. Steven Spielberg, martin Scorsese, Jane Campion and Jodie Foster have all been attached at one time or another to direct. In fact when a script written by Larry McMurtrey that was to be directed by Sophia Coppolla fell threw in July 2004 it looked like the sequel may never happen.

But Emmy Award Winner Shelly Long wouldn’t’ give up on her dream of reprising her all time favorite role of Phyllis Nefler. In private Long began to bang out a script with the help of “Will & Grace” co-star Shelly Morrison

who played maid Rosa in the first film. When Touchstone Pictures gave the thumbs up to the script Long decided there was only one director who could bring her vision to life. She turned to “The Brady Bunch Movie” director Betty Thomas. The reason for this was obvious. Thomas played villain Velda Plendor in the original film. Long told Fake Gossip News, “It was clear to me we needed somebody who was associated with the original to direct Nefler’s Navy. You need to be able to speak the ‘Troop Beverly Hills’ language to do the story justice. And by having Betty direct we kept the female empowerment of the original alive.”

“Troop Beverly Hills Part Deux: Nefler’s Navy” will reunited the many, many famous people who were in the original cast. Emmy winners Long and Craig T. Nelson as well as Thomas. Not to mention Morrison, Mary Gross, Kelly Martin, Tori Spelling, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Pia Zadora and Cheech Marin. Also joining the cast for the second go around are Lindsay Lohan, Winona Ryder, Mario Lopez, Julianne Moore and Michael Douglas.

In the film Phyllis prepares to retire from her own wilderness girls spin-off organization called Nefler’s Navy. She plans on handing the reins over to her daughter Hannah but everybody is dismayed when Phyllis’s arch enemy Velda Plendor reemerges. Velda has recently been named CEO of K-Mart and she tries to take over Nefler’s Navy and disband it. It’s up to Phyllis, Hannah and all original girls to find a way to stop the take over and save Nefler’s Navy. The film is set to be released Memorial Day Weekend 2008. Expect Box Office Records to be broken.