Casting has been announced

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jem-holograms-finds-stars-698570

http://www.slashfilm.com/jem-and-the-holograms-first-look/

The Jem and the Holograms movie came together seemingly overnight last spring, but we haven’t heard much from the candy-colored rockers since then. And we still haven’t, but at least now we’re finally getting to see them.

The first image from Jem and the Holograms has just been revealed, featuring Aubrey Peeples as Jem, Stefanie Scottas Kimber, and Hayley Kiyoko as Aja. So does it deliver all the “glamour and glitter, fashion and fame” that we’d expect from this gang? Find out for yourself after the jump.

Elle Magazine revealed the Jem and the Holograms first look in their March 2015 issue. io9 scanned and blew up the tiny image which explains why it’s all blurry. Shana (Aurora Perrineau) is missing, but we can probably assume she’s just busy on the drums.

Edited February 27, 201510 yr by dragonflies

Im not sure how this will work in 2015 considering this was such an 80s thing

Ugh NO, I knew they'd eff this up

The trailer

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselman/jem-and-the-holograms-trailer#.vgBAv9345

I have no desire to see this movie, but if people really think there was no emotion in Jem and it was all camp, clearly they have been watching Youtube compilations, not the actual episodes.

Abysmal.

I know hardcore Jem fans are going to be in a tizzy over this. Where is Synergy? The Misfits?

IMO, this is giving me Josie and the Pussycats teas where the movie totally strays from what made the cartoon successful.

Well, based on the trailer for this movie, maybe the Misfits songs ARE better. Clearly, they were too edgy for this movie. I know Molly Ringwald may have been a bit older for the time that Jem was a cartoon but shouldn't she have known better? I guess a job's a job.

So many things wrong based on what I just saw.

Did anyone involved ever watch the show?

Awful.

I think Im the only one that liked that trailer. What did people expect? Its live action. A straight adaptation of a cheesy 80s cartoon wouldnt work for this. They modernized and made it more realistic for 2015. It may suck; it may be good. We wont know till its released but that trailer didnt look bad.

Jem was a fantasy, I get it. So are most comic books, that doesn't stop the movie industry from doing successful live action movies based on comics. The live action Paddington Bear movie looks better than this.

There is nothing truly truly truly outrageous about this. What boring generic trash.

Aubrey Peeples said it all....

Jem was a fantasy, I get it. So are most comic books, that doesn't stop the movie industry from doing successful live action movies based on comics.

Exactly. If the filmmakers feel that they can't adapt the show to a present-day live-action film without ripping its guts out, then they should come up with something else. The Transformers, G.I. Joe, and now Jem... nothing holds up to the originals and thanks to reruns and dvds, that's just fine with me. I have no interest in movie making that seeks to exploit nostalgia with the arrogance of having improved upon the original.

I think Im the only one that liked that trailer. What did people expect? Its live action. A straight adaptation of a cheesy 80s cartoon wouldnt work for this. They modernized and made it more realistic for 2015. It may suck; it may be good. We wont know till its released but that trailer didnt look bad.

But Jem isn't cheesy. Of its time in terms of glitz and glamor, blended with a sci-fi element, but the show has a lot of heart and never talks down to its young audience. I felt it back then, and I feel it now in reruns, there's often a dark, mature element to the storytelling. These girls in the live-action movie actually seem too young to me, but of course, the casting is expected (especially if they want to get a franchise out of this).

They could have done a new animated adaptation with 2015 computer animation technology and kept the original concept. This movie seems watered down and generic. But to each his/her own. I won't bitch, I just won't watch.

There is nothing truly truly truly outrageous about this. What boring generic trash.

THIS