Does Larry David have enough control rights to prevent a new Seinfeld show?
 

What if Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, and Michael Richards decided they wanted to return to the Seinfeld premise - sort of "continuing" the series.......can Larry David stop them? The show was created by both Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, so I'm wondering if one can stop the other from doing something related to the "trademark name" of the show, and everything therein?

Larry David might say something like, "I don't want you people to mess with a good thing - leave it alone! NO new series!"

Is this possible?

Re: Does Larry David have enough control rights to prevent a new Seinfeld show?
 

Why are you so obsessed with Seinfeld lately? Powering through the DVDs or something?

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A logical enough assumption, one that happens to be correct. I started with the pilot a week ago, and I'm somewhere in Season 3-land, so yeah, I'm comfortably obsessed now.

By the way, isn't it funny how, as soon as the show ended, Jerry Seinfeld's face got heavy? He must have said, "alright! Enough with the diet, the show is over, I don't have to look good anymore! Where's the beef, hand it over!"

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Doesn't every actor do that?

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I'm sure Larry David would continue to collect $$$ if this were to happen, after all I believe he was still being paid during the last two seasons after he'd left the production. And this would most likely NEVER happen. Seinfeld has plenty of money without having to do this. I'm sure he got any desire to reunite out of his system with the "reunion" episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

He was already 44 when the show ended. Most people start to fill out well before that as they age (even Seinfeld himself was no twig like he'd been in the earlier seasons!). He certainly was less stressed and running around less than during the show. He settled down, got married and started a family. You make it sound like he turned into Dom De Luise! -ohbfrank-

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To be fair, Buttmunker appears to be comparing a season 3 Jerry (1991) to present. That was 20 years ago(:eek:). People change.

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If anything, I'd think he'd be more interested in going back to it to simply work behind the scenes instead of running the whole shebang and being in front of the camera, ala Curb.

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I hit the wrong button and nuked that comment, but yeah I don't think anyone would stop a new Seinfeld show from happening. I also don't think it'd last longer than a season (of course, I'm assuming a huge decline in quality.)

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Larry David wants nothing to do with Seinfeld or any of the people who were in it.

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Never seen Curb Your Enthusiasm?

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Groucho'ed :up:

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^
Haha...

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It would never happen for 2 reasons:

1. Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld are very good friends, and one wouldnt embark on a Seinfeld reunion without the other.

2. Jerry Seinfeld isn't stupid with his post-Seinfeld career. He knew Seinfeld was starting to jump the shark in its last season, so he got out on top. He realized he would never do anything that comes close to Seinfeld, so he never tried to do another series to that magnitude. Jerry is very smart about his legacy towards Seinfeld.

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Seinfeld 2: Costanza's Revenge!

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Fixed. ;)

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Actually, I'm not. I'm comparing Jerry to "The Finale" to Jerry one or two years later!

I never really saw Jerry change much in appearance during the course of the show. Neither did Julia or Michael, really (aside from his pompador getting bigger). Jason Alexander, also didn't really get heavy-heavy until after the series ended. His hair, on the other hand, was wavy. It waved bye-bye during the course of the show.

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I thought the very last season, aside from the luke-warm Finale, was the BEST season of the whole show!

01: Gordon Jump as the boss for "Play Now," George's new job. George pretends to be handicapped.

02: "Serenity now!"

03: George uses TV and Food to enhance his love-life

04: Puddy

05: The Merv Griffith Show

06: "Pimple Popper M.D.!"

07: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld_(season_9)

oh heck, read for yourself. It was far from "Jumping The Shark."

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'Tis a shame, given how important thick, lustrous hair was to George

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...And I think they made the perfect setup for a new series when they ended the old series:

The old series = "before prison"
The new series = "after prison"

This way, we have lost NOTHING! No relationship building because they were in prison; no new jobs we missed because they were in prison!

The new show can start off with their release from prison, finally. And then the show can resume! I think that would be awesome!

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Really? I thought ending the series with the same button conversation that started the series pulled it full circle showing after nine years they never grew or changed, but maybe that's just me. ;)

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I'd rather see "Steinfeld," starring the girl from True Grit.

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Weren't they only sentenced to a year?

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I'd say the show really started to jump the shark in its eighth season. The plots and storylines were starting to get a little silly and surreal at that point, and it was fairly obvious that the show's glory days were over and the quality was starting to wane.

Re: Does Larry David have enough control rights to prevent a new Seinfeld show?
 

You left out Festivus. You know, the holiday for the rest of us.

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Actually it's The Merv Griffin show.

:) Carry on...