Lanford Days Again

Sep 24, 2005 20:42


I posted this one in the Roseanne community, but wanted to preserve my own copy of this here...



If Roseanne were to do a 10 or 20-year re-union, it would be great if it was a film release in theaters all over the world. It would be titled Lanford Days Again and span from December of one year, go thru the entire following year and end in May a year and a half later.  I have some ideas and am organizing them into a fanfic...

Some ideas I have that I posted earlier with a few additions...

Jackie's son Andy is very, very much like his mum in personality. Roseanne jokes about it often. Andy has Jackie's dark hair, but Fred's blue eyes and facial features. Andy sometimes gets teased in school and it makes both him and Jackie cry together, but he’s making it all right with Jackie’s love and his aunt Roseanne’s humor.

Roseanne, Jackie, Nancy, and Leon have expanded the Lunch Box into a national chain and are now making very good money. The lottery thing was just the fantasy part, but now they don't have to struggle financially anymore. I just like the thought of them getting a break after years of struggle and hard work. The Lunch Box becomes a national chain and Roseanne, Jackie, Nancy, and Leon have to hire lots more ppl. of course. Maybe they add The Dinner Pail as a spinoff of the original diner...Lunch Box and Dinner Pail, LBDP for short. They deserve that break after all they've been through.

Roseanne's writing books now and has sold several. She's raised Jerry as a single mom just as Jackie raised Andy.

Leon is now getting along better with Roseanne, Jackie and Nancy. So is Bev. Leon and his husband's little girl frequently plays with Andy, Jerry, and Becky and Darlene’s kids. Leon’s mum-in-law is slowly getting Alzheimer’s and Roseanne and Jackie help him deal with it.

Nancy has now married her lover and together they adopted twins, one boy and one girl. They’re language delayed, so it is up to Nancy and Marla to help them. Roseanne and Jackie help with funny one-liners.

Darlene and David now run a gothic magazine with David as one of the head artists and Darlene as the editor. Their little girl Harris has shown an interest in writing. She's a mix of David and Darlene in personality and looks. David and Darlene have son, Daniel and a second daughter, Sara; they now have three kids. Their plot could be the three kids growing and then when Roseanne decides to sell her old house, Darlene and David decide to buy it (an idea I saw someone else post earlier). Roseanne moves closer to Jackie, who still lives in the same house.

Becky now has a college degree and is a play/film director. Becky and Mark split up when their daughter Alicia is around one and later Mark dies maybe in a truck accident. Mark strikes me as being self-centered at times. Becky’s plot could be around a film she’s doing and maybe one of the actors is depressed and having trouble with a family member or something and Becky helps her deal with it.

DJ is getting married this April. He's a photographer and his fiancé, Lian, is a high school teacher. That’ll be the plot around DJ and Lian with all the wedding blunders along with the joys.

Bev is now happy with her life; she doesn't annoy Roseanne or rattle Jackie's nerves as much as she used to, although there are still occasional moments.

Nana Mary dies and all of them deal with that and they bury her and cry.

There's one possible plot among others...Jackie starts having frightening flashbacks of witnessing a molestation. She later realizes that it's her dad molesting Roseanne and that Jackie herself had witnessed it and her dad threatened her into silence. Jackie is too frightened to say anything, esp. to Roseanne, but Roseanne later remembers it and they find out the Bev knew about it. Roseanne is angry and wants to blast Bev, but Jackie is crying and defending Bev just the way Jackie used to cover for their dad. They work on a compromise. Bev meanwhile, remembers it and is feeling guilty and sees Jackie upset and maybe overhears her daughters and feels worse, then the three of them talk and cry for a long time and Bev apologizes for not being there for her daughters.

But I think the Mark/David switch is better left out. Maybe Jackie will be bisexual.

Maybe once Harris gets into a huge fight with her brother and runs over to Jackie’s and talks things over with Jackie and Andy and spends the night just the way Roseanne’s kids used to do with Jackie. Jackie kind of smiles ruefully at and thinks Everyone goes to Jackie’s again.

Darlene’s youngest kid has a brief stint in one of the films Becky directs and says she wants to be an actor when she grows up. She’s actually a little like Becky in personality.

Have a couple of more ideas...Jackie is an ad artist for the Lunch Box and Dinner Pail while Roseanne writes the ads, so that's mostly their work for the diners; they don't work daily IN the diner as they used to; they have hired employees for it now.

Bonnie has released a few CD's with that remarkable voice of hers and maybe is in a band with one of the band members being her cousin.

Roxanne makes an appearance; maybe the Conners/Harrises visit her in NYC for the holidays (in the second year of the film).

Chuck is a DJ at a radio station. Annie-Marie is now a co-owner of the Lunch Box and Dinner Pail with Roseanne, Nancy, Jackie, and Leon.

Crystal now owns a beauty shop.

So those are some ideas I have for a movie on them; it’d be funny, yet have some serious, deep, and emotional parts.

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