Fox is set to remake the awesome ’80s movie Girls Just Want to Have Fun. According to Variety Fox has already hired a writer to destroy the movie that starred Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt, Jonathan Silverman and Shannen Doherty. Luckily there is not a lot of info about the sure-to-be-sh!tty movie because I am already crying over the news. Hopefully this movie will be Dancing in Heaven, as in it dies before they start filming!
Please, please, please Hollywood, stop remaking movies and try to be original. I don’t know how many more destruction I can handle.
It wasn't bad enough that Guy Rithcie destroyed Swept Away and Sherlock Holmes, now he is set to destroy Guys & Dolls according to The Sun.
A source said: “Guy has been on the case with the idea of making a musical recently.
“He had been throwing ideas around with JASON STATHAM about writing their own musical. They were joking that it would be a cross between Worzel Gummidge and Bullitt.
“Guy has had a lot of meetings with top studio bosses about other projects but the Guys And Dolls idea really tickled him.
“He is torn between keeping the script true to the original in New York and taking it to familiar surroundings in London.”
The 1955 film, based on the hit Broadway musical, was all about a bloke who wanted to stay out with his pals every night gambling rather than spend time at home with his religious missus.
It is painful enough that Hollywood plans on remaking this classic Broadway show and movie, but seriously with all the directors out there why oh why do they have to use Guy Ritchie. I am still not over how sh!tty Swept Away. The only way I might consider seeing it is if he gets Craig Bierko to reprise the role he is currently playing on Broadway in the show.
Hollywood is remaking yet another movie that doesn’t need to be remade. The Hollywood Reporter is saying that the funny horror movie Fright Night will be redone by Gaeta/Rosenzweig Films with Michael De Luca. Not only are they destroying Fright Night, but for some reason they are unearthing the sh!tty movie Angel Heart that was universally panned the first time around. I bet you that Mickey Rourke and Lisa Bonet were hoping that this movie was forgotten about never to be mentioned again, but that ain’t going to happen now.
Back to Fright Night, the only way I would even remotely support this remake is if they find William Ragsdale and cast him in it. Whatever happened to him, he was so cute?
And seriously when is Hollywood going to stop remaking movies and come up with original ideas instead?
We are just days away from Mother’s Day, so what better time to announce that the 1980 Troma movie Mother’s Day is getting re-made. According to Variety, Darren Lynn Bousmanm who directed three of the Saw movies will be directing the new version of the movie that left an impression on him when he saw it as a kid. He added, “It’s a wild, crazy, insane, macabre ride, and that’s what’s so exciting about this project.” While I think he might be able to do the remake justice, I just don’t think the movie needs or should be remade.
So now that they have or are remaking another holiday centric horror movie classic like Friday the 13th, Halloween, My Bloody Valentine, April Fool’s Day (my birthday) and Mother’s Day, which holiday would you like to see get the horror treatment next? Eli Roth just claimed Thanksgiving, so that is off the market for 20 years…until someone decides to remake his movie.
Moviehole was (un)lucky enough to get their hands on the sh!tty details of the movie that claims to be a remake of The Karate Kid with Ralph Macchio.
Sherry is offered a transfer to China. Considering the U.S office is about to lay off everyone, it’s really her only choice; especially since nobody else at the office has been offered a transfer. With her young son Dre (Jaden Smith) in tow, the single-mother makes Beijing her new home. Needless to say, not knowing Chinese, and experiencing a bit of culture shock, they both find it a little hard to settle in – – Dre especially.
Like Daniel Larusso in the original film, Dre (who, unlike Larusso, is a skateboarding video-game buff) immediately catches the attention of the local bullies – in particular, Lui Wei Cheng. And before too long, Dre is going home with bruises (he tries to hide a black-eye under a cap by pulling it as far down his face as he can) and whining about wanting to return to the states.
Dre’s enrolled into a strict Beijing Middle School. His first day there is a bit of a shambles – the assistant principal spots his bruises, and assumes he’s been fighting (which, of course, they don’t accept under any circumstances), and he turns up in a school uniform, something he didn’t have to wear that day (there’s only certain days when a uniform is required).
The Mr Myiagi character is actually named Mr. Han (Jackie Chan). He’s the maintenance man of the apartment lock that Sherry and Dre have moved into, and meets the new residents when he’s called over to fix their hot water service. From the bathroom, Han spots Dre practicing martial-arts kicks (unsuccessfully) in front of a video-game, and catches his black eye. Later, of course, he’ll agree to teach him – both martial-arts and the Chinese language (so he can impress his mother by haggling over apples).
The ‘John Kreese’ character – the character played by Martin Kove in the original film – is Li Quan Ha, the owner of the Fighting dragon school of Kung-Fu. One visit to the school – in which Li Quan terrorizes his students (who range from the age of 3 onwards), namely Lui Wei Cheng – and Dre is immediately put off.
Oh, and yes, there’s a love interest – someone mother wants Dre to bring home for dinner.
“The film has a similar tone to the original movie”, I’m told. “There are a lot of funny lines – mainly delivered by Jackie Chan. It is actually a good script though, very good in fact. It’s different enough to be considered its own beast too”.
Will Smith needs to give up that this piece of crap he created for his son Jaden is anyway related to the original The Karate Kid. Seriously I pray this movie goes straight-to-DVD because it really deserves to go straight-to-the-trash.
On that note, here is something positive…According to CinemaBlend Robert Rodriguez’s Barbarella with his fiancee Rose McGowan is officially dead!!! One remake down, many many more to go!!!
UPDATE: I just figured out why the character’s name is Dre it is short for Dreadful which this movie is going to be!
