Nancy Drew
 

Ok, so I was watching tv the other day (of course) and a teaser for the Nancy Drew MOVIE came on! I got soooo excited... I almost died... of course, none of the other sisters home even knew who Nancy Drew was, so my excitement was for nothing.

So... I was wondering... who here is a ND fan? Who's planning on watching the movie on Sunday?

Also, the movie has a greek tie-in... here's the excerpt from TV Guide:
Based on Carolyn Keene's beloved teen sleuth, this update sends Nancy and her faithful sidekicks Bess and George (Jill Ritchie, Lauren Birkell) off to River Heights University, where she tackles the mystery of a football star's drug-induced coma. Did his premed sorority princess fiancée (Sabine Singh) sack him? Or is a school official covering up a scandal? It's a twisty tale that stays true to the spirit of the classic character, while giving her a modern makeover.

The movie stars the girl from one of my other favorite "little kid" movies on Disney, "Model Behavior" and she was in the Lifetime movie last night, "HEart of a Stranger"!~

How excited am I?!?!?!

That's why nancy looked so familiar!! I lvoed nancy Drew when i was young. My mom gave me all the Nancy Drew books she had owned as a child when i was 8, and to this day i occasionally pick them up and read them. my favorite was the Scarlet Slipper Mystery, followed by that book that had the Tiwsted Candles in the title (i can't remember the exact name)

Gosh I probably owned every Nancy Drew book that was published... sadly, that was a LONG time ago, and I don't remember where they are now.

Strange they are making a movie out of it.. but it might turn out interesting.

"Secrets of the Golden Pavilion" is the best!

They're making a movie? That is so cool. i loved Nancy Drew books, but I like reading them more bc I can picture what everyone looks like etc.

Oh my gosh, I LOVED Nancy Drew! Thanks for the tip on the movie - I'll have to watch it. (Don't have a clue about tv these days!) I can't wait for my daughter to start reading them!

I don't get the Disney channel :(

I adored Nancy Drew growing up -- my mom and my aunt had a bunch of the old hardcover books and I read all of them.

I didn't know that they were making a movie, though.

I thought it was on regular TV.

*edited to correct, I just checked my local listing, and it's this Sunday on ABC at 7pm. The notes says "The teenage sleuth investigates after a football player at her university slips into a coma."*

I loved reading Nancy Drew books. Also the Hardy Boys were cool. I say Nancy Drew was better because it was only her to solve the mysteries while Hardy Boys has 2.

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:D OMG...i adore Nancy Drew! :D
i thought i was the only one... i'm STILL adding to my collection!! (187 and counting!) Thanxxx for the info on the movie... looks like i'm staying in this saturday ;)

I know EXACTLY where all my ND books are, and loved them all, with Clue in the Crumbling Wall and Strange Message in the Parchment being my faves. By "modern makeover", I hope that means there will be no dwelling on Bess's pudginess or George's perpetually slender appearance, and that maybe, just maybe, Ned and Nancy might kiss on the MOUTH. That constant cheek kissing never rang true with me, even when I was 10! I thought they were secretly going to at LEAST Second Base when Carson and Carolyn Keene weren't looking.

And I hope the pre-med sorority woman isn't too princessy!!

I guess I'm the only one who liked "Sign of the Twisted Candle".

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I read all of the books too--did anyone else have the ND Cookbook? I still use some of those recipes, especially the chocolate waffles.

When i was in high school, I passed on the collection to a girl in my church who loved ND but didn't have the $ to buy all of the books. She loved them every bit as much as I did if not more.

My other half will have to just deal when I watch this.
(Hey, if he can have the guys in for a "private screening" of "Dude, Where's My Car?", I can hog the TV for Nancy Drew!)

Adrienne
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THAT was the name of the book!!!!

My FAVES were The Thirteenth Pearl & The Spider Sapphire Mystery... they were so good i read them each in a day!
Did any one ever read any of the "Case-Files"?

If you weren't already planning to watch this, you should turn it on now... Nancy Drew is at a Tri-Pi recruitment event :eek: Can't wait to see what the sorority mystery is!

i wish i hadn't missed the frist half hour of the movie!!! i thought it was a great representation of Nancy Drew and it stayed really faithful to the books. i really hope it does become a tv show!

grrrr... i missed the first half hour or so too! I started watchin when they broke into the Tri-Pi House, so i really didn't know what was going on. One thing REALLY bothered me though, why was she so ANTI-NED, and what was the end result w/ the cute detective? (i know Nancy's relationships are never the focus, but then why do they even bother to bring it up?)

I missed it :(
I hope that in a few months, it wil get replayed on the Disney channel.

Fun Fact-- the sorority house scenes were filmed at University of Southern California. The house is the ADPi house, and (I believe) SAE! :) ADPi had to get special permission to have the house filmed, but I'm glad the international grand president gave the thumbs-up-- it is such a beautiful house!

I know one of the houses it was filmed at was AXO...my friend was in her new member period there when they were doing it. :)

Hi! As an ADPi at USC, I can certify that Nancy Drew was filmed at the ADPi, SAE, and AChiO houses. They used SAE and ADPi for exterior shots and AChiO for some interior shots. The USC greek system can be seen in many different movies. The movie Pumpkin was also filmed at ADPi and AChiO and Sorority Boys was filmed at ADPi, SAE, and PIKE. An episode of the Jamie Kennedy experiment was filmed at the architechture fraternity. The show Beyond has been filmed in several of the houses on the row. There are lots of other movies, I can't think of what the other houses have done, but the USC row is pretty famous! When they were filming Sorority Boys, they told us that it is easy to use SAE and ADPi together because are mascots and colors are the same, it is easy to combine the houses and get a lot of different shots. It's funny too, because during the filming, Barry Watson had to pretend to be sleeping in my big's bed! He (and the production crew) are the only men that were ever allowed to go upstairs in our house!

This was quite possibly the worst adaptation of a book I've ever seen. I was a big ND fan growing up, and I'm appalled at what they did to such a great series.
It was cool to see the shots of USC, but the story was terrible and I thought all the characters were annoying and unlikeable.
Did you all think they did a good job?