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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is remaking the 1987 film The Monster Squad. Rob Cohen, who produced the original, hopes to direct the remake. Cohen will produce with Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, and they’re meeting with writers.
A group of kids who worship the classic monsters suddenly discover that Dracula is in town, and he’s got his pals Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Gill Man and The Mummy with him. The kids must stop their efforts to find an amulet that will give the creatures control of the world. Sounds a bit cheesy, but the film is beloved by fanboys.
The script was written by Fred Dekker and Shane Black before Lethal Weapon made the latter Hollywood’s highest paid writer of the 1990s. Cohen was one of the producers on that film and many others before he transitioned to the director’s chair. The film is at Paramount after Platinum Dunes moved there last fall. David Ladd will be a producer on the film.
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Hey, better they should remake ’80s films than desecrate genuine classics from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s. (Ashton Kutcher and Jessica Simpson in CASABLANCA, anyone?)
You know what else isn’t original….. crying about bullshit on a message board like your opinion matters
Wow what a critical people out there……
I little positivity?? The movie is a remake….yes
you like compare the 80 with now??? We are
in 3d now….they can make this movie amazing!!!!
Just be positive we need good movies
old or new…… In the end they try!!!!
we have been in 3d!!!! The technology is not even that much more advanced at making 3-d than in the 80′s
You could remake MONSTER SQUAD a hundred times and always get a great movie, but why not just rerelease it? It’s about as close to a perfect movie as you can get.
Another needless remake.This dosen’t just sadden me because I enjoyed the original, but because like the kids in that film, I am very much a fan of classic movie monsters. Will someone please treat them with some respect and intelligence? So many classic movies and Hollywood just keeps showing how utterly ungrateful they are of heritage. Tragic.
Its all about take and tone. Who would have thought “Where the Wild Things Are” wouldve have turned out the way it did…Lets wait to see who the writer is before we cast to much doubt.
So whatever happened to Rob Cohen’s biography of Russ Meyer?
Why? There really is nothing else to say / ask.
Bring back Andre Gower!
Jonah Hill needs to play Horace the fat kid in the remake…clearly his shot to break out into more serious roles…
“Hey fat kid…good job.”
(shotgun in hand)
“My name…”
(pumps shotgun)
“Is Horace.”
Any thoughts on who should play Scary German Guy???
The same Rob Cohen who brought us the amazing MUMMY movies?? hahahahahahahaha uhmmmmmmm yeah…..nuff said.
Could this be worse than making The A-Team into a movie with Joe Carna”ham” directing? Prolly not but damn close.
To all those who are bitching and moaning about how a remake of Monster Squad is “raping my childhood,” or “ruining childhood memories,” quit your whinging!
You’ve still got the original to keep you warm and any remake is not going to travel back in time and rape your precious childhood self.
Even seeing the remake won’t destroy those good memories – they’ll still be there. Quit the hyperbolic BS – just don’t see the remake.
Geez! What a bunch of crybabies! What are you, 5?
One more thing – Van Helsing is not a remake of Monster Squad. It is nothing like Monster Squad. It lacks the warmth, wit and charm of Monster Squad – not to mention the intelligence and imagination.
Just sayin’…
No no no, it should be set in Old Tyme England…
“Evidently a Lycanthrope does possess bollocks”
Check out Ashley Bank (she played the little girl Phoebe in the original “Monster Squad” film) in a really fun web series @ ParanormalBurbank.com (you can also add them on Facebook)!!! There’s a lot of “Monster Squad” references in Episodes 4 and 7!!
MSR
first off, kudos to Matt for making me laugh harder than I have in weeks! Second, I accompanied Kirk Cameron to the “Monster Squad” premiere back in the day (how’s that for an 80′s overload flashback!) Thought the movie really kinda sucked, great premise, not a great movie. I LOVE the classic Universal monsters, would love to see them get together again in something worthy. “M.S.” is still a great premise so…??? I’m guessing with the Platinum Dunes abysmal track record it will still kinda suck or maybe it will REALLY suck! P.S.-Highlight of the premiere evening was at the after party at Hard Rock Cafe at the Beverly Center, Arnold Schwarzenegger chomping on a big cigar called Kirk and I over to his booth and strongly chewed out Cameron for never getting back to him about appearing at a Special Olympics event Arnie wanted him to appear at. A shaken pre-Jesus lovin’ Kirk just kept saying, no one ever even told me about it. It was better than the movie!!!
One of my fav movies of all time! I can’t even get a copy of the film on DVD in the uk! I really hope the remake doesn’t over shawdow the original! It’s a classic and shouldn’t be done! It wud be like making the goonies again! It just won’t have the same affect
I was stoked to find the DVD release today as this was one of my favorite movies as a kid….I just finished watching it with my son and guess what…it was just as good as I remembered and he loved it as much as I did!! If they are going to do a remake they better make it as family friendly as the original and not screw it up. And by family friendly I mean not full of sexual references and innuendo as so many “family” movies are these days…I’m getting tired of answering questions that I shouldn’t have to answer for a few more years after I watch a so called family movies…some of us parents actually don’t mind if the content is strictly for the younguns..
I think that making the Monster squad is a wonderous thing. I’m currently watching the old one and it came to me as to why they don’t remake it. I thinkt that should add new monsters. The graphics are going to be wicked. But also could you imagine if it wasn’t made for children. It would be mad awesome!
a remake of this classic would be blasphemous, it shouldn’t be done, it’s like remaking The Goonies, movies that SHOULD NOT be touched again, just left in their classic epicness as is, as a piece of 80s Hollywood history
Scary German Guy???? I say Ben Kingsley. Seriously though, the original Monster Squad was too good, they can’t remake it becuz it wouldn’t be as good. It’s one of those movies that you say “a remake, cool”. But then you realize that it would never live up to the first one.
I LOVE that movie n grew up on that n the goodies an not all remake turn out bad I think done carefully an stick to the original it could turn out great
Please DONT remake the monster squad…. too many remakes on classic movies
MONSTER SQUAD ROCKS!!! If a remake brings more fans – than awesome!!! It was so ahead of its time! Little boys who swear, make politically incorrect insults/petnames, make fun of the fat kid in the group, use guns, exploit a girl with a nudey picture of her, smoke, fight evil….can u say South Park 10 years prior !? LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT !!!!