Producer-actor Dave Thomas says he is considering legal action against the Toronto-based company that was supposed to finance Home Brew. The $15-million McKenzie Brothers sequel to 1982's Strange Brew was to begin Toronto production this week with Thomas and Rick Moranis as Bob and Doug McKenzie. Thomas said he had to tell the mostly Canadian cast and crew last Friday the production was shutting down.

Thomas says lawsuit may be Brew-ing
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By BOB THOMPSON -- Toronto Sun

     TORONTO -- Producer-actor Dave Thomas says he is considering
legal action against the Toronto-based company that was  supposed
to finance Home Brew.

     The  $15-million  McKenzie Brothers sequel to 1982's Strange
Brew was to begin Toronto production this week  with  Thomas  and
Rick Moranis as Bob and Doug McKenzie.

     But  Thomas said he had to tell the mostly Canadian cast and
crew last Friday the production was shutting down.

     "I'm really soured," said Thomas by telephone from his  L.A.
office  of  Maple Palm Productions. He is also out $750,000 US he
put up for pre-production, "just so we could get  things  moving,
or we would lose the actors."

     Thomas  said he discovered last week certain Home Brew money
arrangements weren't in place, including an insurance policy that
guarantees sales and distribution of Home Brew.

     Moranis  and  Thomas  initially  created  the beer-swilling,
toque-wearing Canuck characters fo the television series SCTV.

     Thomas said he might seek compensation for damages and loss-
es,  and  to cover a $500,000 pay or play clause in the contracts
of Moranis and Dan Aykroyd, who was also starring in the feature.
He  added '99 video sales of Strange Brew encouraged the writing-
performing team to do another McKenzie Brothers film.

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