Just like Saturday Night Fever, Footloose, Hairspray, The Producers, Lion King and Sister Act, Animal House is getting the musical treatment. According to The NY Times Universal Pictures Stage Productions is working on turning the classic movie into a stage musical. Not much is known about it because it is still in the works, but Barenaked Ladies is working on the score. Part of me is curious to see what they can do with it, but then the other part of me is like there is no way they can do the original justice because it is perfect the way it was. Plus I am so scared that when it eventually gets adapted to the big screen, they will wind up casting the overrated Seth Rogen in John Belushi’s role and he is no John Belushi.
Hey Hollywood it’s not hip to remake American Psycho because no one can come close to doing it as well as Christian Bale did. That and the movie is barely a decade old. But I guess Lionsgate is out of ideas because even though the film is was made in this century they hired a writer to redo it according to Variety.
Please Hollywood go all Patrick Bateman on this remake and kill it!
Just when I think that Hollywood can’t come up with a more ludicrous ideas for movie, The Hollywood Reporter says that MGM has bought the rights to make Where’s Waldo?. Not much more is known, but the film will be a live action family adventure.
Oh and you don’t have to be smart enough to find Waldo to know this movie is going to be stupid.
General Motors is thinking of getting into the movie business and they are thinking of starting by remaking the ’70s classic The Cannonball Run according to Vulture. But the news get worse because they want Guy Ritchie direct it and he wants Brad Pitt to be the new Burt Reynolds. Since I am still not over how Swept Away is one of the very worst movies ever made, I bet Madonna’s ex would want Seth Rogen to take over James Coco’s role. Can I tell you I just shed a tear thinking about everything I just typed.
All I have to say to this news, is that I am grateful and proud to drive a Toyota!
UPDATE: A spokesperson from General Motors Tweeted me this statement, “I’m a GM spokesman. This is baseless speculation/rumor. GM wouldn’t condone a project portraying reckless/drunken driving.” Sometimes you have to wonder where crazy rumors like this get their drive!!! At least this one was stopped before the road got too bumpy!!!
A few years ago Family Guy did a hilarious bit where Stewie flew all the way to LA to punch Will Ferrell in the face for starring in the sh!tty big screen version of Bewitched and now he might have to do it again if CBS gets their way. The Hollywood Reporter says that the Eye network has hired the same husband and wife team who produced that piece of sh!t movie to work their (black) magic again with a small screen version of the ’60s sitcom. Yes CBS struck silver with Hawaii Five-O, but do they really think they can do it again with The Stephens? I really think and pray not.
But the bad news doesn’t stop there, because The Hollywood Reporter says NBC is hoping lightening with strike the same place twice (or whatever number we are up to) with an updated version of Frankenstein. On this I will site a CBS show and that show was Moonlight. Mythological monsters do better on the big because the small screen never does them justice on network TV.
Thankfully both shows are just in the script stage of development and hopefully they will stay that way. Because neither the witch and her mortal husband or Dr Frankenstein’s creature need to come back to television.
Seriously what happened to originality?
