First it was CandyLand, then it was HeMan and now it is Barbie’s turn to get her own movie. Yep you read that right, according to The Hollywood Reporter the almost 50 year old doll is getting a live-action movie. Not much more is known like which Barbie collection(s) we will get or how old she will be. I just really hope they don’t go the cheesy way with this movie, but how can you not?
So who do you think who should play the iconic doll? I hope they go with an unknown because I can’t think of any one with a name who would be right for the role. Now when it comes to Ken, that role has Zac Efron written all over it!!!
In one of the saddest remakes to date and there have been some really sad one, Disney announced that they are remaking Yellow Submarine according to MTV’s Movie Blog. The 3D movie will be directed by Robert Zemeckis, who also worked on the animated movies The Polar Express and the upcoming A Christmas Carol. Here is how is planning on destroying it…
The “new voyage to Pepperland” will include all 16 Beatles songs featured in the original film. Sounds an awful lot like it’s going to be a (fairly) straight remake of the original, in which The Beatles set off on a voyage to save the undersea kingdom of Pepperland from the nefarious Blue Meanies. I’m honestly not sure whether to feel thrilled or mortified.
Yellow Submarine is all about The Beatles, how do remake their movie with half of them no longer with us. Such a sacrilege. So wrong. Too bad John Lennon is too peaceful to haunt Zemeckis and convince him not to touch the classic, but maybe George isn’t as nice?
I can’t keep up anymore with which TV shows are being turned into movies and which movies are becoming TV shows, mainly because it depresses me so much. So you would think by now I would be immune to it all, but I have to admit when I read in Variety today that Fox and Sony are developing a show based on Heathers a tear came to my eye. As of now all we know is they hired writers who are not sure what direction they want to take the show in. So hopefully because the people they hired to work on the show don’t really any good credits behind them the show will stay in development and never see the light of TV. After all Fix did pass on destroying AbFab, so we know they have some scruples.
Lionsgate is going to destroy Dirty Dancing with remake according to a short Tweet from Production Weekly. How can I say that with such certainty? They are the same studio that brought us the sh!tty sequel Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. Seriously how bad was that movie and I have a strong tolerance for crap and that was beyond crap. I have a feeling they probably will cast Ashley Tisdale as Baby and someone from Dancing with the Stars as Johnny Castle. Hopefully I am wrong, but I have no hope for this movie being any where near watchable, do you?
Remember that scene where Jules aka Demi Moore tries to off herself in St Elmo’s Fire? Well that’s how I feel after the news that ABC is remaking the classic Brat Pack movie into a dramedy according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The series version will use the movie as a takeoff point and as an inspiration as it introduces six new friends: three boys and three girls.
What will remain is the setting — Georgetown and St. Elmo’s Bar & Restaurant, now called St. Elmo’s Bar & Grill, where the friends hang out. And if the set-up looks a little bit like “Friends,” that’s OK with Bucatinsky.
“I feel it is time to re-create ‘Friends’ in the hourlong genre and feel like this is the perfect opportunity,” he said.
Another example of Hollywood claiming it is making a remake, but really it has barely anything to do with the original and they are just too lazy to let it try to stand on its own. BTW Joel Schumacher, who worked on the movie will serve as EP on the show. Also working on it is That ’70s Show’s Topher Grace, who I wonder will cast himself in one of the lead roles. What happened to his acting career anyways?
But back to St Elmo’s Fire, do any of you plan on checking it out if ABC decides to pick it up? Maybe if we let them know now, we don’t want it they won’t let it go past the script order phase???
