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Don't Panic When You Hear About 'Monster Squad'
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You will see this headline pass through your Google readers and your Twitter feeds today: "Mike Mitchell to Helm Monster Squad." Your heart will race, your skin will flush with fury, and you'll set off to your favorite site (hopefully it's Cinematical) to pound out your anger via your keyboard. Not another remake! Not The Monster Squad! But here's where I can reassure you. Calm down. It's not Fred Dekker and Shane Black's Monster Squad. Let's let your heart rate settle back to normal. Is it? All right then. According to The Hollywood Reporter and its misleading headline, Mike Mitchell is indeed directing a film called Monster Squad for Warner Bros. Like Dekker's film, it too is a supernatural comedy. But unlike Dekker's film, it once boasted the title Nightcrawlers, and was based on a spec by Brian Lynch.
It's reportedly changed plotlines numerous times. Variety notes that it was once centered on an international organization of children who have made it their mission to combat the monsters under the bed. (Familiar!) Michael Arndt rewrote the script to star a neurotic father who must face down childhood monsters. Warner Bros is keeping the current version by Brad Copeland under tight wraps, but it doesn't take much to suppose it deals with "monsters" and a "squad" that deals with them on some level. All teasing aside, this is good news because it means Warner Bros has opted for an original (but undoubtedly reminiscent) idea over their rival Paramount, who was toying with a remake as of last year.
The '80s Keep Coming, 'Flight of the Navigator' Being Remade
Filed under: Action », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Deals », Disney », Scripts », Family Films », DIY/Filmmaking », Newsstand », Remakes and Sequels »
This must be kind of what Bill Murray felt like in Groundhog Day -- only we're not talking a single day being relived again and again, but an entire decade. Joke not about this '80s property or that, because tomorrow they're made official via the trades.The latest to stop being a joke and become reality is The Flight of the Navigator which is being prepped by Disney. According to The Hollywood Reporter, they've set Brad Copeland to pen the remake, and it's being produced by David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman. There's not much more information than that, but I imagine they'll keep the same story, and just beef it up a bit.
You remember the story, right? A young boy is abducted by aliens in 1978 and experiences a serious case of missing time, as he returns eight years later. His family has moved, his kid brother has grown up, and NASA puts him in lockdown. (The boys will remember he's waited on by a ridiculously cute Sarah Jessica Parker.) It was horribly traumatizing if you saw it as young as my sister and I did ... but then it becomes exciting and cheery with a cool silver ship, and cute pocket-sized aliens. Then the "navigator" becomes hideously obnoxious as it talks like Pee Wee Herman and makes fart jokes for the rest of the film, which was disappointing to me even when I was young enough to like fart jokes. I imagine he'll talk like Dane Cook now.
So, yeah. I'm not going to scream "This is raping my childhood!" or anything as the movie hasn't held up that well, and has remake room. But it's just terrifying to watch an entire decade trotted out and dusted off like this. Kids need new sci-fi, not retreads!
The Wild Hogs Blooper Spectacular
Filed under: Comedy », Disney »
Wow, this is awesome. Usually we have to wait for a DVD release to be offered a meaningless (and generally entertainment-free) collection of movie bloopers, but the marketing team behind the motorcycle comedy Wild Hogs has decided to dole out those goodies extra early. Click right here to see if this material makes Wild Hogs look more appealing ... or less. (Still, it's a bit funnier than the trailer.)Starring Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy, Wild Hogs comes from second-time director Walt Becker (after Van Wilder) and first-time screenwriter Brad Copeland -- a man who has penned a few episodes of Arrested Development and My Name is Earl and must therefore have some talent. Plus the flick seems to have a Ray Liotta cameo, and really, doesn't every movie need a Ray Liotta cameo? The Disney comedy opens on March 2.
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