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EXCLUSIVE: Glee creator Ryan Murphy just finished an episode of his hit show that is devoted to the camp classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. By the time it airs October 26, Murphy might be in a deal to direct the feature film remake. I’m told that he’s being courted by Fox 2000 to direct a remake of the 1975 musical, which has grossed north of $100 million and is considered the longest running theatrical release in film history because it still packs the faithful into midnight shows. The project is taking shape at Fox 2000, with Peter Chernin producing along with Lou Adler.
Murphy hasn’t committed, but he has met. Aside from being very hands on with his hit show, Murphy is also exploring a spring start to direct Mark Ruffalo in The Normal Heart, a feature adaptation of the Larry Kramer play about AIDS written when the disease was a death sentence and nobody seemed to be helping. Murphy also got paid $5 million from Sony Pictures Entertainment to write and direct a romantic comedy that would re-team him with his Eat, Pray, Love star Julia Roberts. The original Rocky Horror Picture Show, written by cast member Richard O’Brien and director Jim Sharman, launched Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick and had a cast that included O’Brien, Nell Campbell and Meat Loaf in a raucous re-telling of the Frankenstein story. Can Murphy resist coming up to the lab to see what’s on the slab?
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Here’s an idea: do. something. original.
does. anyone. do. anything. original. anymore?
I agree. However, wouldn’t you like to see Bosom Buddies done over with Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg
damn. too bad it couldn’t also be in 3D! imagine… glee. rocky horror picture show. in 3D! wow.
christ, i just threw up a little..
LOL… Hey Hollywood.. What is next?? Remake the Beverly Hillbillies? or Get Smart? or Hawaii-ad nauseam… Can anyone write out there?
They already re-did Get Smart…
They already did a remake of Get Smart. It was stupid.
Haha Get Smart was already remade a couple years ago…and RHPS SHOULD NOT BE FUCKING TOUCHED!!! LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE YOU DAMN GLEE FUCK!
Your my hero
My sediments exactly Weeble Wobble! A classic should not be touched. Besides that, those kids weren’t even born when it came out.
Believe me, the problem isn’t that no one out there (well, here I guess) is WRITING anything original, it’s that no one is BUYING anything original.
I’m a Doctor. I’m a Lawyer. I’m a Tax Attorney. I dress like Justin Bieber. And I want to go to Hollywood to destroy Pop-Culture forever. Screw the film industry. It’s no longer a creative talent pool. Box office figures and film longevity show it. Heck, they have already begun to remake foreign movies that haven’t made it to DVD yet. Where are the Hitchcocks and the Capras and the Cary Grants and the Charlie Chaplins? Where are the Jim Hensons and the Walt Disneys? True Steven Spielberg is still with us, and just as brilliant. But the brilliance in film over the last century has been all about the original high concept done well. Doesn’t have to have a huge budget. Doesn’t even have to make a fortune in ticket sales. And the people involved are artistic more so than business minded.
Find great scripts. Treat the creative minds well. Let those who know what they are doing – do it. We’ve spent too much time listening to pollsters and film critics, and spent less time listening to ourselves, let alone actually watching film. And what do we go see? Inception,.. a “masterpiece” and otherwise styled rehash of L’Emmeurdeur. Avatar,… a live action mess in the same vein of Ferngully. Hollywood makes better TV than Movies. Now, if I were Clint, or Steven, or Martin, or Woody, I’d be pissed to think I let these bozos rip on my territory and smoke up my nostalgia with a briefcase. Bring old Hollywood back by thinning the list. By being more selective about who you let in. And by looking away from the golden pile of crap sitting outside your door. Has anyone seen The Sleeping Beauty Documentary… people should get into film because they love it… not because they make millions and become famous. The latter gravitate to fates like that of a Lohan or a pre-Wrestler Rourke. People can write. But the best scripts aren’t made… they are tossed around so much they become “developed” into nothingness. Example… Blacklister I LOVE PHILIP MORRIS. Awesome script… horrible franken-film result. Again, we need more people like Hitchcock. Not more Hitchcock type movies. Not revamped or remade Hitchcock type films, but visionaries who can see the end result before they put pen to paper, and film in the camera. Not business people and academics who are only concerned with their projected box office figures.
This is why I do not go to the movie theater anymore. Nothing is good enough or original enough that I can’t wait til it gets to Netflix.
Hollywood is afraid of originality. If some unknown author shows up with an untested script they don’t get past the front door. Safer just to rehash what’s worked before.
I.Agree.
I hear they’re already re-making the Harry Potter movies for the US market.
Selena Gomez is in talks to play Hermione.
As a long-time, diehard Rocky Horror Fan, and also a fan of Glee – I loved the idea of a Tribute episode…
HOWEVER!!! A tribute episode paying omage is one thing, an actual Remake is another and my “glee” turns very sour at the thought of it. The millions of bucks that RHPS has brought in over the years were by its fan base which continues to support it. And as you read through most comments on articles such as this, you can see the very same fan base is almost entirely unsupportive of the idea of a remake. They will never be able to recreate the connection the original has with its audience and the participation phenomena…. – It simply cannot and should not be attempted.
Fox may own the “rights” – but this film belongs to it’s audience more than any other film I can think of – and for that reason, I really think, on some emotional level, that they really don’t have a right to do this to it’s fans who are clearly voicing their opinion.
I was a Ryan Murphy fan, but if they continue to push for this I will be no longer. And I hope RHPS fans everywhere threaten to loudly promote the boycott of any Fox and/or Ryan Murphy productions of any kind. Make their collective voice loud enough to scare Fox execs into rethinking any future attempts.
My only problem with doing a remake, is that I never thought the original movie was very good in the first place. I suppose if you watch it with friends dressed up in costume after having downed a few drinks, you could have a good time watching it. But watch it at home, alone, in your living room, and I challenge anyone to sit through the entire thing!
The worst thing is that it would all be kids in the remake, and the only other human who could do Rocky’s part justice is Eddie Izzard; alas, too old for the part… and impossible to memorize.
The original is the #1 cult film of all time. Why not remake BAD movies and songs and make them better…not GOOD ones and make them worse!
Even with Ryan Murphy directing, it would never compare to the original. Leave it alone, some things you just don’t mess with!
NO. NO NO NO a thousand times NO. NOBODY should remake this movie. NOBODY can play Frank-N-Furter like Tim Curry. LEAVE THIS ONE ALONE.
Let them make it. Let it fail. Perhaps after losing money they will think twice next time. It will be a tribute to the longevity of the original and a glowing symbol of the lack of imagination to create something new and original like they did with the original. This will be as laughable as if they were to do a remake of Start Wars and the horrible reviews will be fun to read.
You’d think after all the experience they’ve had with all the remake fails so far, they’d have stopped by now.
amen!
Amen Emma!
The idea may not be original, but if there is a remake to be made, this does seem like a good pairing.
Can execs PLEASE get over Ryan Murphy? He took a great idea, produced 2 amazing episodes of it at the beginning of season 1 and proves week in and week out to be completely incapable of writing dynamic, interesting characters or storylines over the course of a series. Same thing happened with Nip/Tuck and Popular. Great starts, then boy did they fizzle out quickly (regardless of Nip/Tuck’s years of running or glee’s super high ratings which, let’s face it, have everything to do with people wanting to see young people sing songs they already know and nothing to do with wondering who will drop out of the glee club this week). Imagine a version of glee that is like My So-Called Life but with musical numbers? Take the great characters of a world like that mixed with the uber-commerciality of American Idol and you’d have a real winner, both commercially and critically.
Ryan has even less talent when it comes to features! Remember RUNNING WITH SCISSORS? He should have been banished for life after that. And any commercial success Eat, Pray, Love has had you can bet has more to do with the book and Julia Robert’s box office value (or what left of it she has) than his “contributions” behind the camera.
Execs and producers, please start trusting the work (by recognizing both good and bad) and knowing that when someone is untalented, it shouldn’t matter how good they are in a room or how snappy their one liners are. It takes more than sass to make a good movie or TV show, and unfortunately we’re the ones who are forced to deal with the consequences as an audience.
Could not possibly agree more. Nip/Tuck had so much promise, but it just fell apart with increasingly more stupid premises.
A good show runner could have done so much with those characters, even an average show runner could have done more than Murphy did.
Lets make that one after Blair Witch 2 and My Big Fat Wedding 2 or Passion of Christ 2
they already made BW2
um, no. Ryan – do not do this. Fox – do not do this. This is a bad idea.
With Glenn Beck as Frank N. Furter. Only on Fox! Fair and balanced!
thank you for the best laff of the day
“Laugh” is so easy to type, and just one more letter.
No, your buddy Slobbering Barney would do a better job
Bad idea. RHPS does not need remade.
Just say No to remakes.
Please.
Seriously.
No. More. Remakes.
or reboots.
I don’t usually object to remakes. Hell, I make them. But this…I’m not convinced. Always hopeful, though…..
While I get that remakes/re-boots come down to making money off of a property the studio already owns, I question the logic behind this one. The original still makes 20th money, off of what was likely a VERY minimal investment back in the late 70′s. Why invest/risk millions in a remake that EVEN if it makes a profit, still won’t make as much long-term as the original AND risks keeping people away from the cash cow.
A REMAKE would SUCK!!! I agree with others pick something that already SUCKS and make it better, leave RHPS ALONE!!!!
Another great idea! How about this one: a remake of Gone With the Wind. It takes place in modern day, move the plantation to a condo
in Atlanta and cast Helen Hunt as Scarlet…
why spend so much money on Helen Hunt when you can cast any of the Atlanta Housewives as Scarlett.
In the late 70s, a sequel script to the movie was written – check out the USC archives. It’s pretty lousy – begins right where the first left off……eventually, Mammy versus the KKK, R-rated sex between Scarlett and Rhett, etc. Ugh. Couldn’t sit through the eventual mid-90s “Scarlett” mini.
NO! Please no. It cannot be improved on. Live it alone!
Please. For the love of God. No.
Would you remake The Godfather? Harold & Maude? Jaws?
Please. Go watch ‘Shock Treatment’ the sequel. Please.
I am sure someone somewhere just got the ideal for a script!
So sad to think movies have went from the bottom of the stack to picking stuff out of the trash can!
Can’t they just leave the great ones alone?!
Please.
This did this already — it was called SHOCK TREATMENT — and it failed. RHPS doesn’t work as a straight (no pun intended) movie. It’s the audiences participation that made it the “cult” hit it became.
“Shock Treatment” (written by the talented Mr. O’Brien) had weird pauses in-between the actors lines just begging for audience members to say something funny. They didn’t.
It’s Fox’s mantra: remake, reboot, regurgitate.
Also, Murphy doesn’t have it.
Must be the time warp again. Next thing you know there’ll be a “Phantom of the Paradise” sequel or something (actually that could be kind of cool).
Let them do it and fail miserably. OTOH, children who have NO IDEA what went before may like it because they think the universe revovlves around them.
If this happens I will shoot myself in the head. If it’s in 3D I will set myself on fired and then throw myself in front of a speeding train.
-KP
“Manimal: The Musical” is right around the corner, folks. Just you wait and see.
This remake bonanza is out of control.
Over the weekend I saw the move ‘True Grit’ — the original with John Wayne — for the very first time and thought if ever a movie did NOT need a remake it is this one. What a treat. The script was great. The acting was terrific (who knew future stars Dennis Hopper and Robert Duvall were in it? Pleasant surprises both) And the 1969 storytelling holds up four decades later.
I am with the above poster who says only creative flops should be remade. Next thing you know someone is going to be touting a re-imagining of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ or ‘Casablanca’ …..
did fox forget when mtv looked at redoing rocky horror though as a reality tv show the creators got mad and stated they would not give clearance for the music. now fox is going to remake one film that should be left alone and not remaked. thus making the original cult classic wind up diluted. hope the creators of rocky horror act the same way they did with mtv and shut this thing down .unless they get tim Currey to make a cameo
Don’t remake this. And don’t get Johnny Depp or Alan Cumming in it. Urgh, there are SO many better musicals to be done: INTO THE WOODS, COMPANY, BARNUM, MODERN MILLIE, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, NEXT TO NORMAL… and long-rumored WICKED and LES MIZ. (Even CABARET can maybe be remade, but ROCKY HORROR!?) Hello?! When will HBO or SHOWTIME step up to the musical plate? It’s time!
Concentrate on GLEE, man. This season is very, very much below the first season. Resting on your laurels.