23 - The Unmade Ernest Movies

Ernest Goes to Podcast

We've pored over every Ernest film they ever made—but what about the ones they didn't? Erin, David, and Dan unearth a treasure trove of unmade Ernest pitches, buried deep in an ocean of untapped potential. And the race is on!

In this episode:

• Know the Artist: Interview with Coke Sams (web archive link)
• Lair of Lost Films blog: Unproduced Ernest Films
• Ernest the Pirate = Pirates of the Plain (trailer)
• Ernest/Dr. Otto and the Song of Tarantula Women
• Ernest in Paradise
• Ernest and the Bold Crusader
• Ernest Spaced Out
  • Rocketman
• Ernest and the Curse of the Voodoo King
• Ernest and the Water Baby
  • Drawings of the Water Baby by John Cherry (from his book “Keeper of the Clown”)
• All the what-might-have-beens
• Pitching our dream Ernest genre movies
• Additional sources:
  • Jim Varney interview by Donald Porter (1987)
  • “Ernest’s Transition from TV to Film” in EW (1990)
  • “Ernest Spaced Out” in LA Times clipping (1989)
  • Unmade Ernest movies in The Tennessean clipping (1989)
  • “Hey Vern! Jim Varney’s For Real!” (1990)

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