A collection of talented artists have banded together for a new project that offers a more exciting way to reboot TV classics in Our Frasier Remake, an anthological, artistic revamp of the Frasier Season 1 finale episode “My Coffee with Niles.” The completed film will launch Wednesday, October 11 — the day before the live-action Frasier reboot debuts on Paramount+.
In the vein of similar collaborations like Shrek Retold and Star Wars Uncut, Our Frasier Remake is made up of six- to 12-second animated segments created by more than 100 artists in a wide range of styles and techniques, from ink on paper to puppetry, rotoscope-like realism to Dragon Ball Z. The animated contributions are chopped up into 185 bits and stitched together to re-visualize the episode, which takes place entirely in the Cafe Nervosa as Frasier (Kelsey Grammar) and his brother Niles (David Hyde Pearce) hop from table to table, discussing the meaning of happiness.
The project is spearheaded by writer-director-producer Jacob Reed (segment director, Jimmy Kimmel Live!). As Reed points out to AV Club, the original “My Coffee with Niles” was “a thinly veiled question about whether or not a spin-off of Cheers called Frasier was worth it.” Now, through this animated lens, he says, “Three decades later, we’re asking the same question about the reboot. Our Frasier Remake is a celebration of Frasier, yet also critiques the current culture of endless remakes.”
The trailer showcases the contributions of Reed, Alex Oviatt (Turtle Derp), Stephanie Schaffer, Elisa Petersen (Your Daily Horoscope), Ian Pfaff, NoNo Flores, Hans Voegeli (DC Toybox Adventures), Ryan Consbruck (Murder in Spacetown), KC Green (creator of the Gunshow webcomic that spawned the “This is fine” meme), Abel Charrow, Miguel Roselló, Harry Chaskin (Bygone Behemoth, Buddy Thunderstruck), Wolfmen of Mars, Rachel Koukal, argylle__, BAFTA winner Steven Kraan, Mikael Trench (To Love a Ladybug), Eric Clausen, Emma Munger, C.E. Downes (ZIWE “Black Friends” music video), Marko Head (Alpha Betas), Sam Duggan, Ryan Bray (Delighted Ghost), Dusty Deen (Coyote) and Essa Rasheed. The clips are set to a cover of the Frasier theme song performed by Grandaddy.
[Source: AV Club]
