MTV plans remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
August 15, 2008
Filed under: Music and Variety, Reality-Free
Generally talking, I’m not an anti-remake person. There are times when a remake is perfectly acceptable and oftentimes can improve upon the ideal of the original, like Battlestar Galactica, for instance. However — you knew that was coming, didn’t you? — this remake just sounds like a disaster in the making. MTV is going to turn The Rocky Horror Picture Show into a Television motion picture. They’ll take the 1975 cult classic sci-fi, horror musical spoof and give it a 2008 spin.
Oh, please! You can’t strike lightning twice. Rocky Horror was a phenomenon. It was a cult classic because the people who found and supported the motion picture in all those midnight movie showings felt like they were part of a “with it” crowd. It was like we had all found a diamond in the rough, a film that Hollywood just didn’t get. How can MTV possibly think they’ll recapture that zeitgeist in a TV movie?
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