So here's why there's not going to be an Even Stevens reboot.
I get this question a lot.
You know, a lot of people are always asking me
about reboots, reboots, reboots.
The only reason people ask me about
reboots is because they happen all the time.
The reason I mention them is because why not?
Fans need a way to congregate and
sometimes you never know what's going to help people find like a cause.
So it's like, for example, with Kim Possible,
those fans have been connected with Twitter
and there's been like movements and like they
they actually with Kim Possible, so many people sent in actual letters
to the channel that they came back for like a fourth season
because three seasons was all they needed
with survived another season because of the fans.
Things like that do happen.
Reboots happen, I think because they look at an IP
and they say, Well,
how much money do we make on this back then and how can we make money on it
another time? Like, do we just modernize it?
Do we make it fresher, funnier or whatever we do?
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Even Stevens didn't actually make that much money for,
I believe, for the channel it didn't have
the top ratings
all the time.
I don’t want to say it was like niche, but it definitely has a cult following.
Certainly people love various episodes like the musical episode
is really big.
There's so many good crazy episodes, and I have to refresh myself
and eventually show my kids, but we'll see if that's still on Disney Plus.
I was surprised
it was even on Disney Plus, but I think they're
smart enough to be like, Hey, like, it's just sitting there.
Let's put it up, people.
Maybe enough people asked for it. I don't know.
I'm really happy that it's there.
For the longest time, you couldn't find it online.
You'd have to find like
ripped versions of it, bootleg copies of the Even Stevens series.
You'd have to get them online, and it was just nowhere to be found.
I think even my mom has VHS that are the finished masters
of the episodes because there wasn't any digital copies of it.
It was just that long ago.
I think we stopped filming 2000 one or two.
We were just switching over to digital film.
Like when we filmed even Stevens, it was film.
And let me tell you, that could be a part of the reason
why it was so expensive.
From what I was told, it was like $1,000,000 an episode, $1,000,000
just to film one 30 minute kid's show because it was shot on film.
And it wasn't even that, like
the budgets themselves seemed that like radical.
We never did like magical things.
It was just a comedy show for kids, but it takes that much money
to keep it afloat. $1,000,000 an episode.
We did three seasons, and by the end of it,
we were ready to do our little movie,
which I think was more closure for the cast and crew than anything.
Because again, I just don't think for the demo of
of the Disney Channel, it was working in our favor.
We were a boy and a girl kind of splitting the show.
What was working was like Hilary had Lizzie McGuire
and Raven was doing really, really well. With Lizzie McGuire
they had like an animated sort of sidekick.
And then with Raven, they had the gimmick of her
being psychic and having that, like, pushed in eyeball thing.
So it was just a very different time.
And it made sense that Disney would have
some magical realism on their shows.
But our show was mostly just about comedy
and the art of comedy and how Shia it interpreted that.
And then I essentially served as kind of like very type
A straight man, as you would call it, in the comedy space.
Every time he was zany, I was super straight.
So it works like the dynamic of that worked really well
for them being a brother and a sister and it being about sibling rivalry.
It was not ratings bait, and that's totally fine.
The show, like I said, it is sort of legendary because it was a point
in time where people really enjoyed it and they still enjoy it to this day.
And I think it holds up, and also, I mean, let's be real,
we're not going to get Shia LaBeouf back to do Even Stevens,
like he won't even come to parties
to do reunions, and as much as I'd like to think
that it would be an artistic endeavor for him.
I also just don't think that we would need him for it.
Sure, he made the show.
He absolutely made the show.
But he was also a part of an idea which was represented
in two talented young kids that were brother and sister.
And they had this dynamic,
so you could do that with a new generation of kids.
But if it's not ratings bait, it's probably not
for the health of the channel and then you don't even have anybody.
Well, you could use me.
I would be willing to do it, but I do think that it would be tricky.
I just don't know how you would reinterpret
the Even Stevens show for it to become a ratings bait.
Wouldn't that be interesting, though?
To like to take something that wasn't super duper popular
because it had this like nostalgic following and cult following.
There's an argument
for that in that you can remaster things that are on film.
You can essentially go in to the footage and you can, like,
make it so that it's not just for like a smaller screen,
but make it for a wider screen and just remaster it and it looks better.
That would be really cool if they decided to do that.
It would probably be cheaper, but the fashions are outdated.
Some of them are so outdated that they've come back full circle
like butterfly clips. But I don't know.
I don't know if Shia
outfits will ever, ever be in fashion.
I think that was part of the point.
I've had talks with people.
I'm lucky enough to say, Hey, like,
I've actually done several shows for you guys.
Like which one of these shows would you like to reboot?
And the conversations have happened.
And then they've kind of just slipped away
because it's not really within my control to greenlight a reboot.
I can't really even get the fans together because there
is so much content out there and there is so much nostalgic ness
for a certain time, you'd almost be better off doing a whole new show,
but utilizing people from the past.
In these characters, I've played with the idea of like a show like that
where somehow you trap all these stereotypes that were represented in
all these nostalgic shows and kind of have them existing with each other.
I mean, look, reboots are extremely tricky.
The best reboot I saw recently was Ghostbusters.
I've talked about it before, but it really was really well done
because what it did was obviously Ghostbusters was totally ratings bait.
Like when Disney is being pitched, I'm
sure they just want to hear, like, what does the toy look like , you know?
And if that's the case, like there's no Even Stevens toy,
it's just not going to happen.
There is a Ghostbusters toy, however, and
I was tickled to see how that unfolded.
This recent movie that came out, this is the second sequel
reboot, whatever continuation, whatever you want to call it.
It was fascinating to see a reboot done kind of in one way
and then a reboot done
in a even better way cinematically and everything else.
So more on why Shia probably wouldn't be involved with it.
I think he's also kind of problematic at the moment.
I think it would be really cool to see him
kind of go back to his roots
because like when he did his whole reaction artistic piece,
he seemed really kind of sweet about his experience with that.
But I also think like he's grown beyond all of that because let me tell
you, like pretty much everybody I think would come back.
I don't know if Margo Harshman would come back.
I don't know if she would have to, because, you know,
Shia’s character wouldn't really be there.
I think it's like, How do you make it work?
How do you make it about the heart of the show,
which is again, these two siblings that are very, very different.
Are you doing it sort of as a continuation like Ghostbusters did?
Or are you just like
literally ripping off the idea and trying to recreate it?
See, I don't think that that works in any case, because
even when something is ratings bait like a Ghostbusters, the first reboot
that they did was like a rip off and it was with women.
I thought I was going to like it.
I was like first up to watch it, but I was like, Oh, this isn't working.
It's shot beautifully.
And the women are wonderful actors and stuff.
But there's just something about it just wasn't the right continuation.
And yet the second one, which I'm talking like it integrated,
even like the themed music, you know, like perfectly well, like
it completely encapsulates like it finishes out.
That's the thing is that I think when it comes to rebooting something,
you need to make the choice of, whether it's going to exist
as a sort of rip off , not a reboot, but like a rip off.
Or is it something that has merit in and of itself?
Is it a continuation of the first one?
So I guess a continuation of Even Stevens would be like
I would be somehow integrated
into the the important part, so I'd be the mom or something,
and there would be two kids
that are siblings, whether they're my kids or not.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm a principal and they aren't my kids,
but that there are kids that aren't getting along
and their dynamic is similar and you can gender swap them.
But there's so much going on outside of the past
that sometimes people want to be like, Oh, you know,
the past is so important that maybe we should bring it back,
but some things don't need to be brought back, and that's OK.
We can just enjoy them, and maybe they'll remaster it
because they can do that and it'll look better.
But that takes money too.
So it's dollars and cents.
And if the reboot doesn't happen, it's probably for the best.
So I would love to figure out the right project
for everyone to get back together with.
But right now, I don't have the time to try to figure that out.
So if you have a great idea, let me know.
I can't be doing this on my own.