Jason Lee is one of the most underrated comedic actors out there. He is amazing in everything he does, and I even count Alvin and the Chipmunks. That wasn’t his fault. My Name is Earl was just brilliant.
But now details are emerging on his new Skateboarding project which will be a TV show for Adult Swim and the plot line seems oddly familar. Cinemablend lays it down for you:
Lee will play a forty-two year old former skateboarding virtuoso who wakes up from a coma twenty-five years after attempting an ill-fated trick. The man’s name? Jon Johnsonsen. He’ll reportedly struggle to adapt to the ‘aughts, as well as with mentally being a seventeen year old stuck in a middle-aged body. You may remember Lee was at one time a professional skateboarder before he altered course and became a movie star.
Don’t get me wrong, because I just love Jason Lee.
But isn’t this EXACTLY Jamie Kennedy’s Kickin It Old Skool? (guilty pleasure alert)
Ok, not exactly. Instead of Skateboarding it was Breakdancing. Kennedy pulls off a stunt in a breakdancing contest to impress the girl and ends up in a coma for 25 years and wakes up an adult but with the mentality of a 17 year old.
I want to hope for the best, and I know some films lay on similar themes and that’s cool, but so far this sounds like the same story.
