A remake of the John Hughes '80s comedy Weird Science is on the way. Deadlinereports that writer Michael Bacall (Scott Pilgrim, Project X) has been hired to pen the script, which will have an edgier, R-rated tone than the original like the 21 Jump Street remake, which Bacall also wrote. Written and directed by John Hughes, Weird Science followed a pair of nerdy teens (Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith) who create the perfect woman (Kelly LeBrock) with a computer. As far as remakes of classic John Hughes movies go, this seems like the one you could do while upsetting the least amount of people – unless we're [...]
Dan Aykroyd and Company have been working on a third Ghostbusters movie on and off for the past 15 years, but in an interview today with Collider, Ivan Reitman, director and producer of the original two movies and a producer on the third one, referred to the new Ghosbusters specifically as a remake and not a sequel:
"I think Ghostbusters probably should be remade, if we can get it all right. We’re working on it, so we’ll see."
Maybe this is just Reitman misspeaking, as everything we’ve heard about the movie up until now indicates that it’ll be a sequel (albeit with the old Ghostbusters passing the torch to [...]
So, Joseph Gordon-Levitt wants to make a new version of Little Shop of Horrors with him as Seymour. Normally, I'd complain that this is a classic that doesn't require remaking and that Hollywood is terrified of new ideas, blah blah blah, but the "original" Little Shop of Horrors starring Rick Moranis and Steve Martin was itself a remake of a 1960 Roger Corman film, so really, who am I to pass judgement? Maybe Hollywood can cement a nice 25-year cycle in which all profitable ideas are remade on schedule with appropriately buzz-worthy and sexy young actors/actresses replacing the original stars. And Joey G-L sure loves to sing and [...]
Dear God, this Three Stooges trailer is not only more ridiculous than the last one, it is a virtuoso display of pratfalling slapstickery so silly that it will melt your muscles and organs down to a congealed, pulsing mass centered in your swollen feet, weighing down the shivering bones and skin that stand in a thin impression of the thinking human you once were. I counted 46 distinct injuries marked by an exaggerated boink/slap/smash sound effect, or nearly one comical injury every other second. People getting whacked, smacked, bounced on, dick-lobster-pinched, poked, shoved, dropped, kicked, hammered, shoveled, and fish-slapped is LITERALLY THE ONLY THING THAT HAPPENS in [...]
The past few years have seen an uptick in the number of big-screen remakes of Hollywood classics and non-classics, with the bulk of these films revisiting beloved properties from the 1980s. Remakes and reboots of Karate Kid, Clash of the Titans, and Nightmare on Elm Street, amongst others, were released last year, with Footloose and Red Dawn due out in the coming months. This past weekend’s new release Arthur was the first comedy to come out of this recent slew of rehashes, an effort to update the hit 1981 Dudley Moore film by replacing Moore with fellow Brit Russell Brand. Arthur'sunderperformance at the box office this weekend[...]
Director Don Scardino, best known for directing more episodes of 30 Rock than anybody, just signed on to direct a remake of the 1979 comedy Going in Style, Deadline reports. The original, from filmmaker Martin Brest (Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run), starred George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg as a trio of senior citizens who decide to rob a bank for a last bit of excitement before they pass away. Unlike most Hollywood remakes, this is a delightful choice of a movie to re-do because it's a good comedy without being a revered, iconic one, and although it features some strong performances, it's not impossible to [...]
1984's All of Me was a very a good body-switching movie or, well, body-semi-switching movie. Lily Tomlin's character plans on a full swap but somehow ends up sharing Steve Martin's body with Steve. 'Twas a Steve Martin tour de funny. And now, almost 20 years later, DreamWorks is working on a remake. (This was after a previous attempt at a remake that would've starred Queen Latifah.) Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, who previously wrote The Vow and Never Been Kissed, have written the script. The plan is for the remake to be about a man whose soul ends up sharing a woman's body. This is why we can't [...]
Danny McBride and Todd Phillips have just signed on to remake the popular Danish comedy Klovn (Clown in English). Klovn, which grossed over $12 million in the Scandinavian box office, was based on the TV show of the same name by Danish comedians Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam, who will be producers on the remake. Laura Turner Garrison took an in-depth look at the Danish comedy scene, including Klovn, in December. Here's what she had to say about the film:
The film Klovn picks up where the series left off, with the two man-boys planning a boys-only canoe trip that will end at a brothel. Casper labels the trip [...]
So…Betty White as Endora, right? Furthering Hollywood's efforts to remake every single moving image dating back to invention of cellulose nitrate, The Hollywood Reporter says CBS has ordered a script for a possible remake of Bewitched, which ran from 1964 to 1972. Personally, I feel like people might actual love a Bewitched reboot, since we already have the template for the successful modern witch sitcom: it was called Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and it helped shape me from the formless adolescent clay. So…Jerry Stiller for Uncle Arthur, then?
We reported last month that CBS had purchased a new TV version of Beverly Hills Cop that follows Eddie Murphy's character Axel Foley's son, Aaron Foley, and now, we know who Aaron Foley is gonna be: comedian and actor Brandon T. Jackson. You may know Jackson from movies like Tropic Thunder, Percy Jackson, and the third Big Momma's House movie, where he played the (step)son of another iconic character, Martin Lawrence's Malcolm "Big Momma" Turner. Humor Millreports that Jackson is in final negotiations to star in the hour-long crime procedural (with strong comedic elements) from creator Shawn Ryan (The Shield). TV's Beverly Hills Cop will revolve [...]
HBO has ordered a pilot from the creators of Big Love, Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer. The show will be a remake of the award-winning BBC Four comedy Getting On. The show focuses on a hospital's women's geriatric extended care ward and the doctors, nurses, old people, and sad stuff that happens therein. The British version debuted in July 2009 and quickly became BBC Four's biggest comedy. Adding this to Stephen Merchant's pilot and the renewal of Veep, it appears that HBO got into the Olympic spirit with all this British love.
Adam Sandler's Happy Madison production company is set to remake 1987's Summer School, a Carl Reiner-directed comedy about a gym teacher stuck teaching English all summer long to a pack of "oddballs and rebels." Originally starring Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Courtney Thorne-Smith, and a dog wearing sunglasses, this doesn't seem like the kind of remake that's going to upset too many people in love with the original. I mean, I'm just judging by the amazing DVD art and 6.1 IMDB rating; I haven't seen it. Should I have? Is Summer School a classic comedy that I've somehow missed out on? Is Sandler about to ruin Mark Harmon's finest [...]
Hold onto your butts, because child abandonment just got a whole lot wackier! Rumors of an Adam Sandler Three Men And A Baby remake emerged today, along with claims that the new film would update the main characters, portrayed by Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson in the original, into three gay men tending to an errant infant. MovieWeb even claims Sandler's man-trio would be involved in a polyamorous relationship, a bold choice which seems extremely, extremely unlikely. If true, however, I will see you all in the front row on opening night, right? Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider are allegedly interested in [...]
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