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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.
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A MONUMENTALLY bad idea.
the reason RHPS is so successful isnt because of its plot, its greart because of the casting of those particular actors and actresses who obviously created a special chemistry and created a moving work of art that, and its fans understand that. this movie cant successfully be remade any more if you remade the mona lisa . its uniqness it what makes it special. lets do the time warp again
No please no. Just say NO…
Stupid is as Stupid Does.
NOT a good idea.
What a massive mistake creatively. Did you see THE RUNAWAYS? Absolutely horrific. These films are about a time in life which this generation can’t “get,” just like those that came before us or after us….it was for a certain time. No one seems to get remakes right — they all stink! Rocky Horror Picture show is something that should not be touched, ever! Who runs these studios? Why do they all make such bad decisions?
Dont do it, but if you must then you better get Tim Curry to be in it – then it may actually be worth something.
Didn’t he do eat, pray, love? Didn’t that bomb?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! For F*CK’S SAKE, leave your claws off this classic!! Take a poll of consumers, just ASK them if they would appreciate a remake of this movie before you get too far into this!
PLEASE don’t do something stupid and f*ck up the Rocky Horror legacy!!! PLEEEEASE!!!
Oh please, don’t be such a BEEYATCH. I mean it’s not like the movie is a “Casablanca” or a “Star Wars”. The movie could use some updating maybe update and give the Doctor a pre-op chest.
Someone wrote a fanfic sequel to RHPS entitled “Return to Transylvania”. It began with Ralph and Betty Hapschatt, newly married, arriving at their new home and singing a back and forth duet, about him going to work for ‘Atomic Corporation’, making nuclear powered airplanes, cars, rocket ships, etc., and her becoming an intensely materialistic housewife, while both singing individually about their apprehension at the prospect of having sex for the first time.
They are interrupted by Dr. Scott at the door, who demands that they return with him to his laboratory. He tells them that Brad and Janet have used his “audio-vibratory-physio-molecular transport device” to the alien world of Transylvania, which destroyed his device, and that they must help him launch his spaceship, before the “portal” to Transylvania closes, to rescue them and save the world.
Before they can take off, they are joined by Eddie’s girlfriend, the leader of her all-girl motorcycle gang, who demands to go along “to rescue Eddie”.
Arriving on Transylvania, they meet the “evil Queen” of Transylvania, who has recreated all of Earth’s great science fiction movie monsters, intending to invade Earth with a fleet of flying saucers, before Earth can use their monsters to invade Transylvania…
Other details are the court of the Queen, Eddie being rebuilt as a Frankenstein Elvis, and the morality of the Hapschatts vs. the newly discovered sexuality of Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, who seek to corrupt them, as the Queen tries to corrupt everyone.
A sequel done in the style of the original might actually be acceptable. All I ask is that we do not REMAKE the original.
Thank you.
I LIKE this idea! As a former “cast member”- It actually makes sense- But PLEASE- Do Not ruin a classic (campy though it may be)- Do Not Remake “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”. People may go to see it (just to see how bad remakes can be-reference “Get Smart Again” which suffered from the loss of most of the original cast-and “Return to Green Acres”(Original cast- but sadly all older than God)- I wanted to remember them as they were.)There is no talent or imagination in Hollywood any more- to quote Norma Desmond in “Sunset Boulevard”- “And who’ve we got today?! Some Nobodys!”
Fucking bullshit!
I worked at a theater in the late seventies and early eighties. For two years every saturday night late they would run “Rocky Horror” and the skinney kid runing the projector was none other than Micheal Moore.
The theater would be packed and the people would bring toast, garbage bags and all kinds of stuff to play along with the movie. My favorite part is when the whole audience would yell “damnet janet”, you could set your watch by it.
They will make it and make fools out of themselves, but they will generate enough hipe to make money. That’s all its about with these pencil necks. Another bad movie.
Michael Moore was skinny?
I was watching the film the other night and wondered why it hadn’t been remade yet. It seemed so obviously like the kind of idiocy Hollywood comes up with again and again. If this guy wants to throw away his career by pouring money down a dry hole, this will do it.
Remake a movie that plays every weekend everywhere forever to make a movie that will play for one week on 2500 screens?
Better idea: don’t.
LMAO I know right. Besides The Rocky Horror Picture Show is STILL making money and STILL entertains audiences. I went to experience it LIVE last week. And I HAD SO MUCH FUN. FOX SHOULD NOT DO THIS ! It will disappoint fans. And Richard Hartley’s Arrangement of Richard O Briens timeless songs.
Nobody can replace, copy, or surpass Tim Curry.
Give it up.
I agree. Tim Curry IS Frank N Furter.
Tim Curry ROCKS!
If The Rocky Horror Picture Show should be remade it should be directed by Tim Burton. BUT This CULT movie. SHOULD NOT Be Made. The Film should not have been touched. They Should put it up on broadway again. But Please don’t touch the film.
DAMMIT JANET ! I’m Shivering.
Lets Hope Richard O Brien won’t allow this !
NO NO NO! Rocky Horror Picture Show is camp perfection! Why destroy it, Hollywood, why?
Since it seems so difficult for studios to produce an original thought, may I suggest Xanadu? That one sucked, so there’s no where to go but up.
I’m willing to bet everyone who’s posted “DON’T DO IT!” to this is 30+.
And I HEAR you, trust me.
But from a business side of things, if “GLEE” is the hit that it is and has a young fan base, why WOULDN’T they think about re-making what has proven to be a success in the past?
Does it work? – No.
(FAME anyone?)
But if there’s a market for it (from the studios’ perspective) and a built in tie-in (older demos/younger demos) with the ability to market it as, “From the creator of GLEE!”, then chances are they’re gonna at least investigate it.
Helpful tip if this ISN’T just PR hype?
1. KEEP THE SONGS THE SAME!
(Don’t update them with “Rap” versions re-written by eminem.)
2. Keep it for “mature audiences” much like the original was.
Sure, it became a hit AFTER it failed (after the midnight screenings took old) but originally it was for adults, not kids.
What this doesn’t need is a Fast Food “Toy Character Collectibles” tie in.
Re-making old flicks seems to be the easy marketing thing. Grafting from built in name recognition.
But the old saying’s still true:
“If it ain’t broke…”
I’m 27- see comment above
And I agree, “From the Creator of Glee…” is a profitable built-in, but you could fill that blank in with anything and get the same results.
I’m 28 and RHPS was the first movie I saw. My mother took me when I was but two weeks old. My 18 year old sister is going to the saturday night showings. RHPS is a piece of history. Just like Star Wars. We were raised on it, and those that haven’t seen it by 18, most likely will in college.
It’s cool Glee has done a “tribute”, but thats all it is. Nothing more. How can you even change the words of the song? “Heavy sweating?” “Bed fretting?” Give me a break. How’s that better then “Petting” and “seat wetting” when they are singing Sweet Transvestite? Or Damnit Janet?
And this is the man who’s going to remake it? Don’t KILL a good thing!
Given how awful the Glee episode is, I sincerely hope the people at Fox 2000 do not go in this direction for a RHPC remake.
Or, y’know, in any direction at all besides LEAVING A CULT CLASSIC ALONE AND NOT REMAKING IT.
My fear is they will stop allowing the showing of the original to push the fake. This might just kill the original. The new blood that comes to see what the movie is all about is what keeps the show going. Years ago I was there every Saturday night playing Magenta. Now that I am 63 I still go every once and a while and watch the kids doing the same thing. They won’t see that anymore they will see the remake and think they saw the real show.
it’s one thing to re-make something that is fairly generic….
but another thing all together to re-make something that’s completely unique.
one can only fail, right?
why don’t they re-paint the mona lisa while they’re at it.
Leave the original alone! DO NOT REMAKE THIS CULT CLASSIC! Come up with your own ideas and stop messing with things that are already great as they are!!!
Every time someone screams “No! The remake will destroy the original!”, I want to double-check to make sure the studio isn’t burning every print of the original somehow. A remake’s a remake. New audiences will potentially like it, while fans of the original will continue to enjoy the version they’ve loved for decades. What’s the harm in it?
Talk about being over-exposed! He makes Ryan Seacrest look like a slacker.
REMAKE A CLASSIC? A SUPERBLY IDIOTIC IDEA….Better Idea.. Why not remake WATERWORLD..? Think of it as Take 2!
I’m getting ready to pitch a remake of Eat, Pray, Love. I’ve got it all figured out.