Let there be lips (again)
For those of you who aren’t fans of the Rocky Horror Picture show, well, you really ought to be.
And they are going to remake the 1975 film. Or ‘movie’, as the BBC says, succumbing to the growing American-led insistence on calling the damn things ‘movies’ instead of ‘films’.
Now I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, I think it’s quite nice that they are going to redo it, because it’s nice to think that the film will reach a new audience… but … well, as far as I’m concerned, the 1975 version is the definitive version, with Tim Curry, Richard O’Brien, Susan Sarandon etc, and I don’t want to see some new remake of it, particularly if it’s going to re-do any parts of it ‘to be more suitable for audiences’.
Part of me wants them to re-do the Science Fiction song, to bring in references to more modern films, and then there’s another part of me knows that I will hate them forever if they do that, because I don’t want them mucking with it.
Besides which… without Tim Curry in the title role, when Brad comes out with the line:
We’ll just say where we are, then go back to the car…Brad Majors in ‘Sweet Transvestite’ (the Rocky Horror Picture Show)
…it won’t work out nearly so well if the audience shout out “we both want to fuck Tim Curry” (instead of “we don’t want to be any worry”). But then again, according to Wikipedia, it’ll be Marilyn Manson as Frank, so I’m guessing he’ll be a touch more sinister… which might be interesting.
But then again, it has always been billed as a science-fiction double feature…
Hello. I am 
Dammit, Janet, that’s upset me. They should just leave well alone.
I loved Rocky Horror! I used to go every week in Dallas with friends when I was younger, doing the whole dressing up thing, and since my friends were in the “cast,” I had my fair share of opportunities to get publicly humiliated. It was great! I’m surprised they haven’t re-made it a while ago, but I am on the fence about how I feel about it also. While I am curious, I do think some movies…. I mean, films should just be left alone! (I would say some things should remain sacred, but can I really use “sacred” to describe Rocky Horror?
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No. Bad idea.
Just more evidence that people are running out of ideas and looking for quick bucks. I’d be interested to see how many remakes there have been in the last, what, five years (?).