Americathon

Has anyone heard of a movie called Americathon. It was set in a then near future 1998 where was was broke because we never recovered from the 1970's engry criss. The current president is the hippie fratboy grandson of FDR name Chet Roosevelt (voted in soley do to his last name). The American government is barely kept afloat by loan from America's rich citizen a Cherokee Indian named Sam Birdwater. When bird water calls to collect, the president turns to a telethon to raise the money to prent the foreclose the closure. Birdwater is acutling hoping the that Roosevelt can raise the money because he consider America to be mostly worthless real estate that not even the mohawks would buy. However a forign power that neaver possably exist in relaity the united hebrab repuplic (Isreal unifing with it's arab neiborgs) want to buy american. They bribe roosevelt cheif of staff to book the telethon with the worst acts he can find and hire a wahsout movie star turned drug adict to host the show. Ofcourse the plans to staoge fall and america is saved. Any way i have created an pop cluture centric timeline over on implause alternat history wiki. Americathon is remade in 2011. I planing on chaning chet roosvelt form a hippie to well meaning man who is over his head. Who should play in the remake. Also the hebrabs would be too dated in 2011. Dose any body have any ideas for a replatment comical forngn power trying to staboge the save america telthon. I got 3 ideas. 1 Fassit india, 2 the second Russina empire (lead by a 25 year old grand son putin )3 Communist austilia. Please tell me what ideas you like
 
I have decide to use the second russain empire as the villains c.I all ready got pick for plays the president in the 2011 americathon version.Can any body give the me suggestion for the sheeming chief of staff who try to sell out america to russia, the preisdent dumb blond girl friend , the staff man media gurru who came up with the telthon idea, the vitiness punk rocker (i am think of changing her nationality to burmess) who the president has an affir with and the drug addited mc (He was played by havery korman)
 
I never saw the movie, but I browsed through the Fotonovel at a bookstore on holidays once. Among the other notable actors was Chief Dan George, who played a native-indian millionaire who repeatedly bails out the USA. Chief Dan George had a few other Hollywood roles, but I think was better known in Canada.

Telethon was, I believe, the only major cinematic contribution of The Firesign Theatre troupe. And the director, Neal Israel, went on to helm some of the Police Acadmey flicks,
 
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If you click on the main photo at that link(Uncle Sam flashing), you can see a few other shots from the film, including Harvey Korman having a breakdown on stage before(if I recall) being bailed out one more time by the Chief.
 
It occurs to me that those Fotonovels, absurd as they seem now, made a certain amount of sense back in the days when the only way to watch a movie was to catch it in the theatre, or wait until it comes on TV once every few years, if ever, and hope you have the night off.
 
I saw it. Not exactly a movie for the ages, but it did a pretty good job of depicting the world it wanted to showcase...
 
I saw it...interesting concept, not a great movie by any stretch.

I can see a redo with some modifications...perhaps the president could be of the "nice dumb guy" type like a Kevin James or Matt LeBlanc. The chief of staff could be someone like a Kevin Spacey type.
 
I saw it...interesting concept, not a great movie by any stretch.

I can see a redo with some modifications...perhaps the president could be of the "nice dumb guy" type like a Kevin James or Matt LeBlanc. The chief of staff could be someone like a Kevin Spacey type.

My idea for the president in America is that he was rich playboy forced to run for senate by father. He decide to become vice president because he felt by being VP he could please his father without having any responsibility because the Vice president doesn't have any real power. But he his president died on him. He been tempted to resign but he afraid daddy dearest would write him out of the will. I thinking off giving him the last of Milhouse instead of Roosevelt. I am thinking of either Charlie Sheen to play priesidnet milhouse. A friend suggest Leonardo DiCaprio.
 
I was rather amused by the idea of Vietnam becoming a vacation paradise for the world's rich people (because of it's pristine beaches, which I have no idea if Vietnam has or not) and the birthplace of a new music breed called 'puke rock')...
 
I was rather amused by the idea of Vietnam becoming a vacation paradise for the world's rich people (because of it's pristine beaches, which I have no idea if Vietnam has or not) and the birthplace of a new music breed called 'puke rock')...

A google on "Vietnamese beach resorts" turned up some fairly pristine-looking locales. But of course, that's mostly stuff being put out for tourist brochures.

I know some fellow expats who have lived part-time in Vietnam. Not sure what they thought of the beaches.

And Vietnam as a magnet for the wealthy might have seemed like far-fetched comedy in the aftermath of the Fall Of Saigon. Not too far off the mark in 2016, though, with the country making geostrategic overtures to the USA and reforming its economy along capitalist lines.
 
Dose any have suggestion for who play erik mcekin Lucy (I need an actress that would good playing a sterotypical dumb blond) Mouling jackson ( I chaning her from vitinese to burmess ,) the scheming whitehouse chief of staff vince vanhoff and a russian general
 
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