MAYBE IT WON'T BE WORSE THAN CRYSTAL SKULL: ALOTT5MA Unnecessary Remakes Week may be over, but we may have to consider adding a permanent Unnecessary Remakes Desk with news that the remake of Romancing the Stone remains alive, with Katherine Heigl attached to play Joan Wilder and producers wanting Gerard Butler or Taylor Kitsch to fill Michael Douglas' shoes.
No. Just no.
ReplyDelete(Did "The Ugly Truth" make that much money?)
Audiences are clamoring for more Butler and Heigl after "Ugly Truth" hysteria swept the nation.
ReplyDelete(You can't use "audiences are clamoring" and "Heigl" in the same sentence without the use of a "not" or sarcasm.)
Also, and yes, double-standard most certainly in play given Hollywood's love of the older man-younger woman dynamic, but does Heigl-Kitsch feel jail-baitey to anyone else?
ReplyDeleteI wish Hollywood would just stop already.
ReplyDeleteHow about Taylor Kitsch as the Kathleen Turner character and Gerard Butler as the Michael Douglas character?
ReplyDeleteKatherine Heigl is 32; Taylor Kitsch is 30. It only seems weird because Kitsch spent five years playing a character ten years younger than he actually is.
ReplyDeleteJoan Wilder? THE Joan Wilder?
ReplyDeleteIf there's going to be a permanent Unnecessary Remakes Desk, then I submit the following as my permanent comment to any URD posts:
ReplyDeleteOh, for fuck's sake.
We may have to make this permanent. They may be remaking Flatliners too. Post t/k.
ReplyDelete<p><span>I watched "Life As We Know It" in a moment of weakness, and I would like for Hollywood to put a stop to any and all climaxes involving a mad dash to the airport. I told a friend that it got to be where I was fast-forwarding through scenes and speaking for the characters. </span>
ReplyDelete</p><p><span>“What, we’re having a stupid misunderstanding? Well, screw you! I’LL SEE YOU AT THE AIRPORT IN THE THIRD ACT!”</span></p>
"Oh, shit, they cancelled Jon and Kate Plus Eight" just isn't going to have the same ring to it.
ReplyDeleteSo VERY unnecessary. And the song/video better not be remade also. Ugh. Moneygrubbers.
ReplyDeletePOSTBOT 9000 says: Oh, for fuck's sake.
ReplyDeleteWhy?
ReplyDeleteAnne Hathaway and NPH?
ReplyDeleteFired. Hollywood is fired.
ReplyDeleteAlso, is it just me or does Taylor Kitsch look kind of like Barry Watson now that he chopped off his hair?
ReplyDeleteTim Riggins, why hast thou forsaken me?
Let's say no the the Heigl.
ReplyDeleteI would watch the hell out of that!
ReplyDelete(Of course I would watch the other one on netflix streaming some night when left alone with ice cream and chocolate)
This remake will certainly never be anyone's best time.
ReplyDeleteUgh.
I'd watch it with Taylor Kitsch, but NOT Katherine Heigl. That girl is too whiny mcbitchypants.
ReplyDeleteMy eyes! MY EYES!
ReplyDeleteI also watched "Life as We Know It" in a moment of weakness, Lisased (aka "I'm stuck inside because of a hurricane warning and this is what's on cable right now.") And all I can say is, I agree with every single word in your post. Like like like.
ReplyDeleteJust re-release the original. It's funny and sexy and surprising and I bet it still holds up.
ReplyDeleteWow! Well now I just feel stupid. ;)
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