Rocky Horror Picture Show Remake?!?!
 

Oh good lord. Please let this never come to fruition.

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/38889

"the remake is being co-financed by MTV and Sky Movies"

Anyone else think this should never happen?

NO.
No one could replace Susan Sarandon and Tim Curry anyway.

I heard they will try to have Marilyn Manson as Dr. Frankenfurter! I could have fainted when hearing that.

I could see someone like Alan Cumming playing that role, but Marilyn Manson...ugh!!

Oh yeah. I saw that and nearly choked.

I honestly wouldn't mind seeing Alan Cumming as Frank N Furter, but you just can't replace Tim Curry.

My hope is that if they do remake this, they will not try to replicate the old movie. I hope that they put a new spin to it. That way, you can't really compare the two.

That's just wishing, though. :(

I'm not a big fan of re-making movies anyway, and this sure doesn't do anything to change my mind!:mad:

A remake has been in talk for years. I don't like that it is suppose to be a TV Movie, but I think that technology and just a modern take on it will be a lot of fun to watch. If Manson does it, it will be much darker and less funny, while Cummings will do the opposite. I think it will obtain its burlesque nature, but might lose some of its campiness for an even darker and twisted version. I am excited to see it.

No! No, no, no, no, NO!

If they do this, I suggest that everyone throws toast at MTV!

But then I will get crumbs on my floor...

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I think MTV should come up with some original ideas and not clearly scripted "reality" shows like Parental Control and The Hills....DO NOT REMAKE ROCKY HORROR!

This is about a million types of wrong. You simply cannot remake Rocky Horror.

Maybe MTV should think about doing something shocking, say, show something like Music Videos and Concerts 24 hours a day? I know, it's daring and new, but it just might work?

It was bad enough when they did the sequel - "Shock Treatment" which, yes I did see. No no no no - you can only have one first kiss, and the kind of response RHPC got cannot be marketed and manipulated. Boooooo . . .

NOO!!!
Please, don't do this, MTV!!!!


There are somethings you just don't mess with!!

Besides, if it takes place in modern day, surely Brad and Janet would have cell phones!

ahh, yes, but they'd be out in the woods and without the creepy verizon guy, so no bars lol. This sounds like a truly horrendous idea. Hearing it's coming from MTV though, I'm not surprised. America's Best Dance Crew or whatever was the first time I had watched MTV since somewhere around 1997. But really, all remakes are awful.

Bite your tongue... Scarface (the Al Pacino version) was a remake, The Fly (Jeff Goldblum version), The Ring (Naomi Watts version), Ocean's Eleven (George Clooney version), You Got Mail (Meg Ryan Version), Freaky Friday (lohan version), Father of the Bride (Steve Martin Version), The Departed (DiCaprio version), Three Men and a Baby (Ted Danson Version), Cape Fear (De Niro version)... ALL remakes... All decent if not great.

sure it is harder to make a remake, but there are some excellent ones out there. I will say that there are some awful ones (Stepford Wives, Psycho, Poseiden Adventure, Alfie)... but really, you never know.

Wow, with the exception of Freaky Friday, The Ring, and Ocean's Eleven, I didn't know all those other ones were remakes. I kinda wonder if maybe it's easier for a remake to do well if the original is not hugely well-known...like people aren't going in to the theater with the original burned into their minds...like they aren't mentally comparing the new lead actor's performance with the iconic original actor's performance.

Yes, I was thinking the same, but did not say it because I did not want to lesser my argument. There are some really iconic movies that just can't be touched. I think Rocky Horror is one of them, along side Wizard of Oz, Rocky, Godfather, Gone with the Wind, etc. THE BIGGIES, I call them.

The original Scarface, Father of the Bride and Ocean's 11 were really successful. The latter two having Elizabeth Taylor and the rat-pack respectively. Those are def. some iconic people, and though the movies were great, they did not transcend to greatness, which helps. Secondly all three movies took a different spin, as most remakes try too. So, it really depends on if its a good script to start with and the change is good. Not necessarily the movie. ALSO, The Departed, The Ring, Three Men and a Baby, True Lies, and Twelve Monkeys were all remakes of foreign films, stories that were rather fresh to the american market.

If I chose cinema as opposed to theatre, I think I would of had a good thesis paper here!!!

About the only things the remakes of Scarface and The Fly had in common were some VERY basic plot points (i.e. scientist turns into fly) and the title. But we're talking about a crime movie and a horror movie - that can go comfortably into a genre. RHPS cannot go comfortably into a genre, thus it shouldn't be remade. It was a one-time sort of thing.

I agree, Rocky Horror is a special case. A movie that has a special place in cinema as you will see I had previously said. My point is merely that it is unfair to dismiss a movie because it is a "remake."