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07-24-2008, 08:22 PM
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111798 ... id=14&cs=1
Quote:MTV is doing the time warp on a remake of 1975 cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Lou Adler, exec producer of the original film, is partnering with BermanBraun and Fox Television Studios on the new rendition.
Two-hour remake will use the original screenplay by Jim Sharman and Richard O'Brien but may also include music not featured in the original.
Helmer and casting decisions have yet to be announced.
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What sweno said. Expect torches, pitchforks, and heads on pikes being carried by people dressed in classical-style S&M.
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Remake
07-25-2008, 05:46 PM
I have been a Rocky fan for a long, long, time, so please take this with a grain of salt.
I am unsure as to what MTV hopes to bring to this production. I doubt they will offer the flashes of nudity, with Little Nell's perky bells exposed. I
can't see them significantly raising the bar in terms of the performances. They could mix things up with Frankenfurter being played by a woman (the role
can and has been played by either sex).
It seems like a waste.
I would be more interested in them pursuing the supposed second chapter. While Shock Treatment is an interesting film, with some great satire, it is as
different to Rocky Horror as Rocky Horror is to pretty much everything else.
Or MTV could go the other route and create a very over the top version, cranking up the sex, violence, debauchery and cannibalism to the extreme. That would
be interesting, as excess is one of the virtues espoused in Rocky Horror.
Sad to say, like Star Wars, Rocky Horrow has a special alligator level response in my brain pan, and I will seek out the remake, if only to marvel at train
wreck.
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Alternately, they could play it totally serious, like the stage show, with all the original allegories for heroin addiction made more obvious. Which would
probably go over like a lead balloon.
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I suspect, unless this is done absolutely, precisely right -- which it almost certainly won't be -- it will just disappear, sinking into IMDB trivia obscurity, almost immediately. But to do it right, they're going to have to find a perfect cast with the same kind of weird chemistry/antichemistry the original had. And that's going to be all but impossible.
Ten to one they'll end up with some misguided "celebrity" cast, like Tom Cruise as Frank and Hulk Hogan as Rocky...
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Cast
07-25-2008, 07:26 PM
Some thoughts (On an MTV movie's budget)
Brad: Nathan Fillion
Janet: ??
Frank: Eddie Izzard (if you want to go male) Monica Bellucci (If you want a female Frank)
Riff-Raff: Billy Drago or Alice Cooper
Magenta: Lucy Lawless
Columbia: ??
Eddie: Jack Black (Easy call, but perhaps too easy) or Rob Zombie
Narator: Samuel L. Jackson (Snakes in his motherfucking Neck!)
Rocky: Vinnie Jones
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Not to disparage Samuel L. Jackson, but I think that Patrick Stewart would be a better criminologist. The Professor X jokes alone would be worth it. Plus,
Stewart's just crazy enough to do it. Not that Jackson isn't, but I think the stuffy British voice is required. Man, I miss Sir Charles Grey. Really
good character actor; best Mycroft Holmes ever.
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Patrick Stewart, ehh.... Ian Mckellen, (snrk)umm, sure.
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