Caffeinated Clint
Oh this is just too much…..
MGM has tapped “Shrek The Musical†helmer Jason Moore to turn the classic Nicolas Cage/Deborah Foreman rom-com ‘’Valley Girl’’ into a sing-song feature.
The Martha Coolidge-directed original (which, despite Cage’s hairstyle in the film, still holds up really well) told of Julie (Foreman), a girl from the valley, who meets Randy (Cage), a punk from the city. Needless to say, the ‘Valley Girl’ starts copping heat from her snooty pals, who disapprove of her sudden interest in the disparate Randy. Julie must decide which is more important: her heart and the boy she loves, or the approval of her friends.
Well, I suppose they’re at least going to do something different by making it a musical – the pic has been recast as a “Romeo and Juliet”-inspired tuneful built around the movie’s new wave soundtrack (think Modern English, Sparks and the Psychedelic Furs) – but it doesn’t mean it’s still not another lazy exercise in filmmaking. Original ideas people! Where Art Thou!? An unnecessary remake is an unnecessary remake.
MGM are also behind remakes of “Red Dawn,” “RoboCop,” “Poltergeist” and “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”.
There’s more at The Hollywood Reporter
