DISQUS

Alex · 1 year ago

Fanboys are incredibly retarded sometimes (or most of times?). And what Keanu has to do with it? The TDTESS remake is looking very interesting to say the least.

Larry Viezel · 1 year ago

When I first heard of the potential for a remake I admitedly shuddered. There is a visceral reaction to the word remake because so many of them were done poorly. After mulling it over I think a remake could be done well - the original source material for Rocky is a play that is still being put on regularly. Each producion is essentially a remake of the same story. Some of them are cookie cutter restagings of the movie, or worse of the 2001 broadway production. But some of them are original, innovative and really impressive. So why couldn't the same be said of a filmic reinvention?

The answer is simple - Hollywood's track record. I don't trust hollywood, and especially MTV, to create a good final product. Good remakes are so few and far between. The list of the good ones is miniscule in comparision to the mountains of bad remakes there are out there - even more so when you take into account the ones where the original had a solid following. (Godzilla, Posiedon Adventure, Planet of The Apes, Psycho, War of The Worlds, The Pink Panther, House of Wax - man I only meant to name like 3, but I can keep going!) The fear is that the remake of something beloved is going to wind up to be a lot of glits, with lots of pretty people playing parts they can't live up to and giving a vacant performances, on top of a ton of flashy special effects and a disregard for the original source matrial. Its not unreasonable that the word remake evokes that response - we've been conditioned to it.

My last concern is lets say you find some diamonds in the rough in past history. Of the good ones - and there are a few out there - how many were musicals? I don't mean how many were remade into musicals, I mean how many movie remakes where the original was a musical, did the remake live up to the task at hand? The only thing that comes to mind is Willie Wonka. But they ditched the music for that remake (and added a bizare story line about Wonka's father). But of staged musicals that were remade twice on the big screen? Annie was redone for TV. i suppose that might count. But Annie certainly didn't have the same following Rocky Horror does

Finally - there is one other point missing in all of this. The origianl Rocky Horror is still playing in theatres around the world these days. Every saturday at midnight. and its still attracting crowds. If it ain't broke why try to fix it? Oh thats right - the allmighty dollar. Those same people who go to see the original weekly are going to pay to see the remake too. Even if its out of morbid curiosity, under protest and there is no way they'd like it. And even if they don't like, theres still probably enough collectors out there that would pay for any associated merchandise or DVDs. Its just money waiting to be made - regardless of the actual product. Well thats just plain exploitive!

Perhaps I am wrong, perhaps the remake will be very well done and it will be innovative and refreshing. With the right director and actors and production it might very well be BETTER than the original. I'd love to see that happen. And if theres anything I can do to ensure that happens I will gladly do just that. But I'm not holding my breath.

Larry

PS - Keanu Reves doesn't quite have the voice to pull off Dr. Frank N Furter. My money is on someone like Jack White.

Seth · 1 year ago

I think a remake would be alright as long as Tim Curry played the role of Franknfurter. But seriously, if they did it right and pulled some young, no-name actors/singers and threw them into the mix, this could do the same for their career as it did for Curry, Sarandon, and Meatloaf (okay Sarandon and Curry).

Mathieu Lalonde · 1 year ago

C'mon, Rocky Horror is fun because of the audience participation, not so much the film itself... People like to see it over and over again because of its cheezyness and yell out lines about the subtle details of the film: a long pause here, a costume malfunction there... all those elements of the film version itself are what make it fun!

A remake just becomes a silly big budget musical about transvestites from outer space! where's the market for that?!?

(unless they do a shot per shot remake of the original and then, what's the point?)

Cole Abaius · 1 year ago

The reason it won't be remade well is simple. The original was a labor of love. The remake will be too polished. It will be cleaned up by the studio, art-directed within an inch of its life, and watered down by test screening audiences.

Bottom line, in fifty years the original will still be remembered and played at midnight showings all over the place - the remake will be totally forgotten, a footnote in the history of the production.

And Seth, how dare you disrepect The Loaf?? Just kidding. OR AM I?

I am.

Opium Ed · 1 year ago

"Hairspray" was a stage play and had two musical film versions, although the music in the first was completely different, being records from the era (early 60s). "South Pacific" had a TV film remake, basically note-for-note, and somewhat pointless for an audience, but was more a venue for current Hollywood actors/singers a chance to perform in it.

If a remade Rocky Horror were more of a spoof, starring the guys from Flight of the Conchords and other parody musicians -- Weird Al anyone? ..... it *might* work.

This discussion of Rocky Horror & the Day the Earth Stood Still remake with Keanu brings to mind extreme cheese-factor images of Keanu, as a Frank-n-Klaatu, leaving the ship (after the landing in Capitol lawn) in a corset and breaking out into song.....doing the Time Warp mash-uped with Klaatu's Anus of Uranus. Our Earth may never survive.

LouiseC · 1 year ago

I don't really want to see a remake. Remakes which are worthwhile can be counted probably on one finger, let alone one hand. The only ones which really work are non-musical to musical, where there is at least some good reason. Rocky Horror is a cult for good reason and the cast was perfect first time. Why change it, as I'm sure it will be, by dumbing it down and losing the black charm of the original?

Nikki · 1 year ago

please people stop messing with the classics, seriously who do MTV think they are this film needs to be left alone WE DONT WANT A REMAKE no one does.

GEEWHIZ · 1 year ago

I'd be very "interested" in a RHPS remake. Nothing, I believe, would ever compare with the original, but it's been 35 years. What if it were fantastic, in its own way, and lit the fire of a whole new generation of Rocky lovers?

I bite my tongue as I suggest ~ Perhaps its time to pass a torch to them and see what they do with it?

WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE what we've got, no one can ever take it away, so why feel threatened?

(Playing my own devil's advocate position, here, folks.) RHPS Rules.

shayla · 1 year ago

well, I guessit would be ok to remake it but hopefully they won't messup on redoing
the music or the cast! Thats all I'm worried about! And that who ever they get as
frank n furter doesnt try and copy tim curry's performance (as if that was possible!) oh
and that they get a super super delicous guy to play rocky!!!!! Oh and that ALL of the
actors can SING!!!

Trixie the Usherette · 1 year ago

I've been in a couple of stage productions of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW and each was unique, wildly inventive and totally unlike the film. Larry Viezel is correct that it's possible to do a fresh, new, weirding/twisted/tasty/sick version of the beloved classic, but I agree it's unlikely that Hollywood can do it. The track record of the big studios for screwing up a film by eviscerating all the heart and guts, watering down the "naughty bits", using "Big Name" no talents who cannot sing or dance (in the case of a musical) is breathtaking in it's length.

Let the studio/MTV do it's worst (and it will, trust me). We don't have to go see it and support their dreck. I learned my lesson with SWEENEY TODD... dear god, the greatest American musical with half the songs cut, because he cast non-singers. I don't care how wonderfully they can act, it's a bloody MUSICAL... Sorry, that's another wrist-slitting disaster to rant about.

We will always have the glorious original ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW at home on the big screen tv and at the midnight show on Saturday night. And every few years, the local theatre company mounts a new production for Halloween. And I can break out the tap shoes and Usherette uniform for another Time-Warp.
DREAM IT!!!

jeff · 1 year ago

fuck, don't do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jeff · 1 year ago

stop, PIG!

Cole Abaius · 1 year ago

I just don't understand how you can make a remake of a movie that's still in theaters.

Rebekah · 1 year ago

I just don't see how this would work. The original... fits, if that makes sense. We know exactly what is going to happen, exactly when to insert each come-back line. It's a familiar friend. Even if they do it scene-for-scene, the timing is going to be different and some of the best loved lines are going to fall flat. It's not the movie: it's the experience. It's going out to a showing and hanging out with other fans, dancing the Time Warp, and giving Frank helpful suggestions on what to do to Brad and Janet.

Besides, it's been sort-of tried. Anyone else seen "Shock Treatment", the supposed sequel? It's absolutely horrid.

Kari · 1 year ago

Well, I suppose if they got Yvan Pedneault for Brad and Kerry Ellis for Janet...maybe Jack Black for Eddie. If they cast musical actors for it, it could be good.
And Shayla? There is only one person that could do a better job than Tim Curry. That's Freddie Mercury. He was asked to do the part before Tim Curry. I agree the Tim Curry was the best Frank N Furter ever, tho!

Crystal · 1 year ago

A remake would just be a mistake. That's all I really have to say. I mean, even if Tim Curry or Freddie Mercury did play Frank N Furter, what about Riff Raff, Magenta & Columbia? Those characters are so unique & so original, you can't just redo them with the same standards.

silverwintersea · 1 year ago

OH HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kristi · 1 year ago

I am still trying to figure out why everything has to have a remake or a sequel. If you want to expose the "younger generation" to great movies show the original. Teach them that the computer was not always around to make pretty lights and sounds, people once actually had to have a hands on part and not sit at a desk. Our media history is being lost; black and white is unheard of and anything other than hi-def is frowned upon. Let us not be swept up in the tidal wave of new technology and forget the people who made all this possible. The only "remake" that ever need be made is a camcorder recording of a live stage performance to be put on youtube or some other internet media to show the greatness that can NEVER be duplicated.

Delilah · 11 months ago

MTV? The same network that brings us such mindless entertainment lacking all thought and originality as "A Shot at Love"?
That's the one factor that really irks me.

Darren Mitton · 11 months ago

FUCK MTV! They are messing with a classic! WE DON'T WANT NO STINKING REMAKE!

Zero · 9 months ago

Repo The Genetic Opera was way better than Rocky anyways. A remake might make that POS into a least a B grade film instead of the F that it is now

Praxidikae · 6 months ago

I've heard the scary rumors that Marilyn Manson is doing Frank... I don't know whether to have nightmares or cry... People started coming dressed up as their fave characters, throwing things, adding call backs, and NONE of it was planned. New, younger, viewers at my theater add new call-backs every show depending on current events. How can you remake something like RHPS when the reasons we love it are random and coincidental? Things like the original lab set not having a door so they had to "make" one, the mistakes in editing like Frank lifting one knee to capture Dr. Scott, and then the next scene the other leg is lifted, the pauses the characters put into their lines, even the background characters like the Trannies! You can't make something a cult classic on purpose (Well, unless you are Bruce Campbell...). It just comes out cheap and tacky that way. But knowing MTV, and the caliber of their reality shows and everything else, I guess thats what they are looking for. If the inevitable happens, and the remake is finished and released, I'll have to accept it like everyone else, but it won't make me any less sad.

MyNameisAlly · 1 month ago

Well,I HATED the idea of a remake, especially by MTV, but hip hip hooray, the remake has been cancelled
(or at least post-poned) Which gives us more time to convince them that it is a terrible idea.
Nopeople i am not a freak/retard/ridiculous-wayyyy-over-the-top-fanatic-who-would-seriously-consider-murdering-someone-if-it-did-come-out-kind-of-person. However i do love the rocky horror picture show just dislike mtv
Thanks peeps