K.T Simpson
“The Nutty Professor” is getting another reboot, with the team behind “Scream 5” ready to give it another crack (sorry, terrible nut pun). James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Paul Neinstein are all set to rejig the film, with Project X landing the rights to “The Nutty Professor”, the classic Jerry Lewis comedy that Eddie Murphy rebooted in the ’90s.
The original “Nutty Professor” (starring Lewis) follows a nerdy professor who in order to improve is love life, drinks a potion that temporarily turns him into the handsome, but obnoxious, Buddy Love. It was rebooted in 1996 by Universal and had Murphy not only play the professor and his alter ego Love, but also famously playing the professor’s five other family members. That film was a massive hit and spawned the sequel, “The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps”, that came out in 2000.
Project X recently took on the reboot of “Scream” with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett as directors, and starring the original cast of Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette.
News via Deadline.
