Jump to content

Rebel Highway: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
That's unsourced too
pov
(7 intermediate revisions by 7 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Infobox television
{{Infobox television
|image=Rebel_Highway.jpg
| image = Rebel_Highway.jpg
|caption=
| caption =
|channel=[[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]
| channel = [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]
|first_aired={{start date|1994|7|22}}
| first_aired = {{start date|1994|7|22}}
|last_aired={{end date|1994|9|23}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1994|9|23}}
|language=English
| language = English
|country=United States
| country = United States
|producer=Lou Arkoff<br>[[Debra Hill]]
| producer = Lou Arkoff<br>[[Debra Hill]]
|company=[[Dimension Films|Dimension Television]]
| company = [[Dimension Films|Dimension Television]]
⚫
| creator = Lou Arkoff<br>[[Debra Hill]]
|distributor=
⚫
| genre = [[Drama]], [[action (fiction)|action]]
⚫
|creator=Lou Arkoff<br>[[Debra Hill]]
⚫
|genre=[[Drama]], [[action (fiction)|action]]
}}
}}


'''''Rebel Highway''''' was a short-lived revival of [[American International Pictures]] created and produced by Lou Arkoff, the son of [[Samuel Z. Arkoff]], and [[Debra Hill]] for the [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]] network in 1994. The concept was a 10-week series of 1950s "drive-in classic" [[B-movie]]s remade "with a '90s edge".<ref name="Corliss">{{cite news | author-link=Corliss, Richard| last = Corliss | first = Richard | title = I Was a Teenage Teenager | work = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date =August 15, 1994 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981251,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930063025/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981251,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = September 30, 2007 | access-date = 2007-06-23 }}</ref> The impetus for the series, according to Arkoff was, "what it would be like if you made ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]'' today. It would be more lurid, sexier, and much more dangerous, and you definitely would have had [[Natalie Wood]]'s top off".<ref name="Fretts">{{cite news | last = Fretts | first = Bruce | title = Return of the Killer B's | work = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | date = July 29, 1994 | url = http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,303165,00.html | access-date = 2010-04-08 }}</ref>
'''''Rebel Highway''''' was a revival of [[American International Pictures]] created and produced by Lou Arkoff, the son of [[Samuel Z. Arkoff]], and [[Debra Hill]] for the [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]] network in 1994. The concept was a 10-week series of 1950s "drive-in classic" [[B-movie]]s remade "with a '90s edge".<ref name="Corliss">{{cite magazine | author-link=Corliss, Richard| last = Corliss | first = Richard | title = I Was a Teenage Teenager | magazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date =August 15, 1994 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981251,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930063025/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981251,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = September 30, 2007 | access-date = 2007-06-23 }}</ref> The impetus for the series, according to Arkoff was, "what it would be like if you made ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]'' today. It would be more lurid, sexier, and much more dangerous, and you definitely would have had [[Natalie Wood]]'s top off".<ref name="Fretts">{{cite magazine | last = Fretts | first = Bruce | title = Return of the Killer B's | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | date = July 29, 1994 | url = https://ew.com/article/1994/07/29/showtime-makes-over-1950s-teenager/ | access-date = 2010-04-08 }}</ref>


Originally, Arkoff wanted to call the series, ''Raging Hormones'' but Showtime decided on ''Rebel Highway'' instead.<ref name="Brennan">{{cite news | last = Brennan | first = Patricia | title = Fast Cars, Fast Girls and Raging Hormones | work = [[Washington Post]] | date =July 17, 1994 }}</ref> Arkoff and Hill invited several directors to pick a title from one of Samuel Arkoff's films, hire their own writers and create a story that could resemble the original if they wanted.<ref name="Brennan"/> In addition, they had the right to a final cut and to select their own director of photography and the editor.<ref name="Rosenbaum">{{cite news | last = Rosenbaum | first = Jonathan | title = The Way We Weren't | work = [[Chicago Reader]] | date = November 18, 1994 | url = http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/?p=6917 | access-date = 2010-04-08 }}</ref> Each director was given a $1.3 million budget and 12 days to shoot it with a cast of young, up and coming actors and actresses. According to Arkoff, the appeal to directors was that, "They weren't hampered by big studios saying, 'You can't do this or that.' And all the directors paid very close attention to the detail of the era. We want these shows to be fun for the younger generation and fun for the older generation".<ref name="Brennan"/>
Arkoff originally wanted to call the series ''Raging Hormones'', but Showtime decided on ''Rebel Highway'' instead.<ref name="Brennan">{{cite news | last = Brennan | first = Patricia | title = Fast Cars, Fast Girls and Raging Hormones | newspaper = [[Washington Post]] | date =July 17, 1994 }}</ref> Arkoff and Hill invited several directors to pick a title from one of Samuel Arkoff's films, hire their own writers and create a story that could resemble the original if they wanted.<ref name="Brennan"/> In addition, they had the right to a final cut and to select their own director of photography and the editor.<ref name="Rosenbaum">{{cite news | last = Rosenbaum | first = Jonathan | title = The Way We Weren't | work = [[Chicago Reader]] | date = November 18, 1994 | url = http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/?p=6917 | access-date = 2010-04-08 }}</ref> Each director was given a $1.3 million budget and 12 days to shoot it with a cast of young, up and coming actors and actresses. According to Arkoff, the appeal to directors was that, "They weren't hampered by big studios saying, 'You can't do this or that.' And all the directors paid very close attention to the detail of the era. We want these shows to be fun for the younger generation and fun for the older generation".<ref name="Brennan"/>


The series premiered with [[Robert Rodriguez]]'s ''[[Roadracers]]'' on July 22, 1994.
The series premiered with [[Robert Rodriguez]]'s ''[[Roadracers (1994 film)|Roadracers]]'' on July 22, 1994.


==Films==
==Films==
*''[[Roadracers]]'' - Directed by [[Robert Rodriguez]] and starring [[David Arquette]] and [[Salma Hayek]].
*''[[Roadracers (1994 film)|Roadracers]]'' - Directed by [[Robert Rodriguez]] and starring [[David Arquette]] and [[Salma Hayek]].
*''[[Confessions of a Sorority Girl]]'' - Directed by [[Uli Edel]] and starring [[Jamie Luner]], [[Brian Bloom]] and [[Alyssa Milano]].
*''[[Confessions of a Sorority Girl]]'' - Directed by [[Uli Edel]] and starring [[Jamie Luner]], [[Brian Bloom]] and [[Alyssa Milano]].
*''[[Motorcycle Gang (1994 film)|Motorcycle Gang]]'' - Directed by [[John Milius]] and starring [[Gerald McRaney]], [[Carla Gugino]], and [[Jake Busey]].
*''[[Motorcycle Gang (1994 film)|Motorcycle Gang]]'' - Directed by [[John Milius]] and starring [[Gerald McRaney]], [[Carla Gugino]], and [[Jake Busey]].
Line 37: Line 36:


==Reception==
==Reception==
In his review for ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', Ken Tucker wrote, "It is the whimsical notion behind the ''Rebel Highway'' series to take a group of mostly grade-D exploitation films from the '50s and remake them, with good actors and directors, in the '90s".<ref name="Tucker">{{cite news | last = Tucker | first = Ken | title = ''Rebel Highway'' | work = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | date = July 29, 1994 | url = http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,303170,00.html | access-date = 2010-04-08 }}</ref> In his review for the ''[[Chicago Reader]]'', [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]] wrote that the series "is at best a collection of offbeat so-called B-films, though given the state of American movies at the moment this is a much more sizable achievement than it might at first appear–especially considering that the whole system that once supported B-films no longer exists".<ref name="Rosenbaum"/>
In his review for ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', Ken Tucker wrote, "It is the whimsical notion behind the ''Rebel Highway'' series to take a group of mostly grade-D exploitation films from the '50s and remake them, with good actors and directors, in the '90s".<ref name="Tucker">{{cite magazine | last = Tucker | first = Ken | title = ''Rebel Highway'' | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | date = July 29, 1994 | url = http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,303170,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070525082341/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,303170,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = May 25, 2007 | access-date = 2010-04-08 }}</ref> In his review for the ''[[Chicago Reader]]'', [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]] wrote that the series "is at best a collection of offbeat so-called B-films, though given the state of American movies at the moment this is a much more sizable achievement than it might at first appear–especially considering that the whole system that once supported B-films no longer exists".<ref name="Rosenbaum"/>


==References==
==References==
Line 48: Line 47:
[[Category:1994 American television series endings]]
[[Category:1994 American television series endings]]
[[Category:American International Pictures films]]
[[Category:American International Pictures films]]
[[Category:American motion picture television series]]
[[Category:Film series introduced in 1994]]
[[Category:Film series introduced in 1994]]
[[Category:Rebel Highway| ]]
[[Category:Rebel Highway| ]]
Line 53: Line 53:
[[Category:Television series created by Debra Hill]]
[[Category:Television series created by Debra Hill]]
[[Category:Television series by Miramax Television]]
[[Category:Television series by Miramax Television]]
[[Category:Films produced by Debra Hill]]

Revision as of 16:52, 7 August 2024

Rebel Highway
GenreDrama, action
Created byLou Arkoff
Debra Hill
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersLou Arkoff
Debra Hill
Production companyDimension Television
Original release
NetworkShowtime
ReleaseJuly 22 (1994-07-22) –
September 23, 1994 (1994-09-23)

Rebel Highway was a revival of American International Pictures created and produced by Lou Arkoff, the son of Samuel Z. Arkoff, and Debra Hill for the Showtime network in 1994. The concept was a 10-week series of 1950s "drive-in classic" B-movies remade "with a '90s edge".[1] The impetus for the series, according to Arkoff was, "what it would be like if you made Rebel Without a Cause today. It would be more lurid, sexier, and much more dangerous, and you definitely would have had Natalie Wood's top off".[2]

Arkoff originally wanted to call the series Raging Hormones, but Showtime decided on Rebel Highway instead.[3] Arkoff and Hill invited several directors to pick a title from one of Samuel Arkoff's films, hire their own writers and create a story that could resemble the original if they wanted.[3] In addition, they had the right to a final cut and to select their own director of photography and the editor.[4] Each director was given a $1.3 million budget and 12 days to shoot it with a cast of young, up and coming actors and actresses. According to Arkoff, the appeal to directors was that, "They weren't hampered by big studios saying, 'You can't do this or that.' And all the directors paid very close attention to the detail of the era. We want these shows to be fun for the younger generation and fun for the older generation".[3]

The series premiered with Robert Rodriguez's Roadracers on July 22, 1994.

Films

Soundtrack

Main article: Fast Track to Nowhere

The soundtrack featured contemporary artists covering classic songs from the 1950s.

Reception

In his review for Entertainment Weekly, Ken Tucker wrote, "It is the whimsical notion behind the Rebel Highway series to take a group of mostly grade-D exploitation films from the '50s and remake them, with good actors and directors, in the '90s".[5] In his review for the Chicago Reader, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote that the series "is at best a collection of offbeat so-called B-films, though given the state of American movies at the moment this is a much more sizable achievement than it might at first appear–especially considering that the whole system that once supported B-films no longer exists".[4]

References

  1. ^ Corliss, Richard (August 15, 1994). "I Was a Teenage Teenager". Time. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-23.
  2. ^ Fretts, Bruce (July 29, 1994). "Return of the Killer B's". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2010-04-08.
  3. ^ a b c Brennan, Patricia (July 17, 1994). "Fast Cars, Fast Girls and Raging Hormones". Washington Post.
  4. ^ a b Rosenbaum, Jonathan (November 18, 1994). "The Way We Weren't". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2010-04-08.
  5. ^ Tucker, Ken (July 29, 1994). "Rebel Highway". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 25, 2007. Retrieved 2010-04-08.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rebel_Highway&oldid=1239154882"