HANS AND FRANZ BLACKROCK MOVIE
HANS AND FRANZ BLACKROCK TV

Sign up for Entertainment Weekly 's free daily newsletter to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more.Hans'gar and Franzok Hans'gar & Franzok comprise the first encounter of The Black Forge wing of the Blackrock Foundry raid. Passé or not, the sketch remains in the cultural consciousness all these years later, proving that Carvey and Nealon's creation was more than just a mere Schwarzenegger spoof. 'We first did that sketch in 1987 - over 35 years ago, if my fingers are correct!' 'We have pitched it as a cartoon but by then it was passé, this was a couple of years ago,' shared Nealon, pausing.

HANS AND FRANZ BLACKROCK MOVIE

It doesn't help that the '90s were inundated with adaptations like It's Pat and Stuart Saves His Family that couldn't light up the box office like Wayne's World did in 1992.Īt a time when any show or movie with a nostalgic fanbase runs the possibility of a revival, few SNL characters deserve the reboot treatment like Hans and Franz. In other words, the project's big screen aspirations got thwarted by timing. Arnold had just parodied himself in Last Action Hero, so he opted not to do this one.' Maybe it was Go to Hollywood, because they do go to Hollywood on a bicycle built for two, a bicycle with a sidecar, I think… Then I guess when push came to shove, Arnold and these big movie stars have like six films in development at a time, then they have to decide what to do. The original title was Hans and Franz: The Girlyman Dilemma. Nealon also noted that Schwarzenegger wanted to co-produce and co-star in it, adding: 'We also decided to make it a musical. NBC Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon as Hans and Franz on 'Saturday Night Live' I'd see these streaks of chicken grease all over my screen.' I remember he would always be eating greasy chicken and he liked to touch the screen of the computer. It was my laptop - Smigel would want to be the writer, and I would throw ideas around with him. So it was me and Smigel a lot of the time. 'Conan was doing The Simpsons at the time. 'I wrote with Dana, Robert Smigel, and Conan O'Brien, mostly in a hotel in Santa Monica,' he said. While promoting his book, I Exaggerate: My Brushes With Fame, Nealon spoke to EW about the process of writing a script for a potential film adaptation. 'Hans and Franz' is another example and remains a fascinating 'what if' possibility. A larger contingent of sketches, including 'Sprockets' and 'Bill Swerski's Superfans,' have fallen short in their efforts to pivot from the small screen to the silver one. It's a treacherous climb that only a small handful of characters have successfully managed. This places them in unique SNL company: Beldar and Prymaat Conehead also starred in their own 'Jake From State Farm' commercials and a few staples of 'Bill Swerski's Super Fans' appeared in a commercial with Rodgers.īut the top of the mountain for SNL sketch characters remains the feature film adaptation. In 2014, the duo appeared in several State Farm commercials with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Two NASA crawler-transporters are nicknamed Hans and Franz. The characters have endured into the 21st century, with references to the sketch popping up in the likes of Sesame Street and World of Warcraft. They also popped up in a Behind the Music parody near the end of the decade. When Carvey left SNL in 1993, the bodybuilder characters were retired, though they reemerged during a 'Weekend Update' stopover when Carvey returned to host in 1994, poking fun at the show's other recurring characters. The premise involved two Austrian bodybuilder brothers, supposedly cousins of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who host a show where they ridicule people for being weak 'girly men.' As the announcer (Phil Hartman) informs viewers over mock Austrian yodeling, the cable show - one of SNL's structural crutches - is designed to be 'the informative training program for the serious weightlifter.' 17, 1987, the premiere date of SNL's 13th season, 'Pumping Up With Hans & Franz' made its first appearance on the show. They knew this was the genesis for a potential character once they returned to New York. Throughout the rest of the tour, they would slip into imitating the Terminator star. Fascinated by the action star's description of his exercise and relaxation methods, he called up Carvey to watch along with him. Nealon was watching TV in his hotel room and landed on an Arnold Schwarzenegger interview. In this post-season glow, performing stand-up across the country, the two cast members were about to conjure two of their most popular characters on the show. Thanks to their contributions, season 12 was a return to form for producer Lorne Michaels.

After a disastrous season 11, the show recruited Carvey, who then suggested his close friend Nealon.

It was 1987 and Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon were touring after wrapping their first seasons on Saturday Night Live.

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