Doing the "Time Warp" again?
Leo G. Carroll will be over a barrel about this: MTV is going to remake "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."According to this Variety report, producer Lou Adler (who made the 1975 original cult classic) is teaming up with BermanBraun and Fox Television Studios for the made-for-TV remake - and Adler hopes to have it on TV by Halloween 2009.
As someone who grew up on "Rocky Horror" - seeing it as a teen in Spokane, in college in Seattle and for several years in the cast that re-enacted the movie at the Tower Theatre in Salt Lake City - the Cricket is perturbed, to put it mildly, by this announcement.
How many ways can they screw this up? Clean up the sexual content? Set the music to a hip-hop beat? Cast Ashley Tisdale and Zac Efron as the virginal Brad and Janet? Bring back some original cast member - say, Tim Curry or Barry Bostwick - as the no-necked narrator?
As Rocky himself sang, "All I know, is I'm at the start of a pretty big downer."
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