Feature Film
Joey Dakota
- by Bert V. Royal, directed by Allan Arkush
- (The CW Television Network, USA, Mid-2012)
Joey Dakota was a proposed pilot for a 2012 romantic time-travel musicl TV show based on the Israeli show Danny Hollywood. Sadly, The CW didn’t pick it up for the fall season, and I’m not sure whether it ever aired as a TV movie. However, here’s what Vincent Terrace had to say about the fated pilot in his Encyclopedia of Unaired Television Pilots, 1945–2018:
Maya Beaumont is a young woman who works as a documentary film maker. When she is assigned to a project involving Joey Dakota, a 1990s music superstar, she is mysteriously transported back in time where she meets and later falls in love with the subject of her film. However, just as mysteriously as she was propelled back in time, she is whisked back to the present where, during her absence, she learns that Joey has been killed in a car accident. The pilot, which incorporates flashbacks to the 1990s, follows Maya as she seeks a way to return to the past and rewrite history to save Joey’s life in the future.
—Michael Main 