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- (Total of 3 films) Box office ~$459,300,909 (Total of 3 films)[a] The Nutty Professor franchise consists of American science fiction - slapstick comedies, including three theatrical films, one straight-to-home video release, a musical stage play, and a theatrical reboot in development.
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The Nutty Professor franchise consists of American science fiction-slapstick comedies, [1] [2] [3] including three theatrical films, one straight-to-home video release, a musical stage play, and a theatrical reboot in development.
6 days ago · The Nutty Professor is a classic comedy film that has entertained audiences for decades. Released in 1963, the movie stars the legendary Jerry Lewis in the lead role, as well as Stella Stevens, Del Moore, and Kathleen Freeman.
- The Nutty Professor
- Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
- The Nutty Professor: Facing The Fear
- Reboot
Main article: The Nutty Professor (1963 film) Professor Julius Kelp is a brilliant science teacher, at a university. However, he has a problem with attracting women due to his clumsy, awkward, inarticulate nature. Women deem him as unattractive. Kelp becomes obsessed with impressing a beautiful student named Stella. With his background in chemistry...
Main article: Nutty Professor II: The Klumps After choosing to love himself, over his popular and assertive alternate personality, Professor Sherman Klump has found love in a beautiful and kind woman named Denise. In preparations for their wedding, his undesired alter-ego named Buddy Love begins taking over. Though Klump has ceased taking his self-...
Main article: The Nutty Professor (2008 film) An animated legacy-sequel to the original film, the film follows the workings of Julius Kelp's grandson. Harold Kelp is an aspiring inventor, who struggles to perfect his experiments. Intimidated by his grandfather's legacy, Harold has dreams of his failure taking the form of a giant monster. After comi...
In August 2020, it was announced that a reboot of The Nutty Professorfranchise was in development. James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Paul Neinstein serve as producers, while the search for additional talent is ongoing. The movie is under development from Project X Entertainment.
- The film is based on the 1963 Jerry Lewis comedy of the same name. The Jekyll and Hyde-like storylines are mostly the same in both films, as is the name of the protagonist’s alter ego (Buddy Love).
- The weight loss storyline was inspired by daytime television. Murphy allegedly came up with the weight loss theme of the movie while watching a daytime chat show’s segment on the topic.
- Lewis served as executive producer on the 1996 version of The Nutty Professor. He also executive produced its sequel, 2000’s The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps, and would go on to produce and star in a computer-animated sequel to his original film—also called The Nutty Professor—in 2008.
- But it turns out Lewis isn’t really a fan of Murphy’s version. He’s quoted as saying, “I have such respect for Eddie, but I should not have done it. What I did was perfect the first time around, and all you’re going to do is diminish that perfection by letting someone else do it.”
The Nutty Professor is a 1996 American science fiction comedy film starring Eddie Murphy. It is a remake of the 1963 film of the same name, which starred Jerry Lewis, which itself was a parody of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
The Nutty Professor: Directed by Tom Shadyac. With Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Larry Miller. Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.
The Nutty Professor is a 1963 American science fiction comedy film directed, co-written (with Bill Richmond) by, and starring Jerry Lewis. The film also co-stars Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Howard Morris, and Elvia Allman. The score was composed by Walter Scharf.
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