Talking of old TV Series being made into movies, Contact Music through IGN FilmForce have the suggestion that a movie for the ChiPs series is on the go. That’s California Highway Patrol, for those of you who didn’t know. Poncho and Jon on their police bikes, obligatory episode highway crash, remember now?
The Contact Music website reports that original star Erik Estrada has been talking with actor George Lopez about a CHiPs movie.
Estrada claims that G.Lo is interested in playing Ponch and further reveals that Friends star Matthew Perry is in talks to play Jon. He says, “George expects to modernize the series, bringing in a lot more humor… It might work. It’s different enough to.”
Fantastic, now, to give you an idea I have placed the images below for you side by side. I’ve taken them from the later TV movie for CHiPs where the characters are a bit older, you be the judge.
I think they look pretty good, and I’d love to see CHiPs back, but it would have to be in the same style and done like Starsky & Hutch, otherwise what would the story be, two motorcycle cops dealing with some average crime and a big road accident? Not so sure, still it’s just talk just now. What do you think, could these two be the ones, is it a good idea?
