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“Nip/Tuck” star in a remake of 1987 thriller
“Nip/Tuck” star Dylan Walsh will play the seducing, slicing suburban psycho-pop in “The Stepfather”, a remake – groan; aarrgh; hmm; sheesh; spit! – of the 1987 ‘classic’.
Walsh wears the braces of the previous ‘Stepfather’, Terry O’Quinn – who was so frakkin’ fantastic – who played the role in two films; whilst Sela Ward (TVs “House”) plays his unsuspecting new bed-buddy and Penn Badgley is his prospective step-son. Adrianne Palicki, of “Friday Night Lights”, is also in talks to join the cast.
Screen Gems is aiming the film as more of a Hitchcock-style thriller than the original, says Variety. It centers on a teenage boy (Badgley) who discovers his soon-to-be stepfather isn’t all he appears. In fact, the man who fell in love with his mother (Sela Ward), might be a psycho who murdered his previous family. Palicki would play the boy’s girlfriend.
And not that anyone will acknowledge it, but there was actually a third “Stepfather” movie released in 1992. Terry O’Quinn wasn’t in it. It was Robert Wightman playing danger-daddy in that one.
