IN AMERICA, FIRST YOU GET THE FILM, THEN YOU GET THE REMAKE, THEN YOU GET THE NEXT REMAKE
Bro they’re doing a remake of Scarface, wtf? Bro that movie is like my favourite poster, this sucks bro. Typical Hollwood can’t come up with no original ideas no more bro…
Of course, as we all know, the Brian de Palma Scarface was itself a remake of a film made in 1932, movies about gangsters being pretty timelessly popular. Straight Outta Compton writer Jonthan Herman is doing a re-write of a script that has already been worked on by Paul Attanasio and David Ayer. Just as the 1980s version moved from the original Chicago to Miami, so too this one will move from Miami to Los Angeles. Al Pacino is cool with it, but thankfully, will not be in it.
FRISKY FRAGGLE JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT
Part of the charm of the return of The Muppets to the big screen was the earnest affection from the likes of Bret McKenzie, and Jason Segel had for those characters, helping to bring them back to prominence because of their own fandom (also money). Now it’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s turn to indulge in some nostalgia-for-profit, as according to Variety he’s signed on to produce and star in the reboot film of another Jim Henson propert: Fraggle Rock.
A Fraggle Rock film has been in the works for some time now but having JGL sign on is a significant step forward. “The first screen personas I ever loved were Henson creations, first on ‘Sesame Street,’ and then on ‘Fraggle Rock,’” Gordon-Levitt said. “Jim Henson’s characters make you laugh and sing, but they’re also layered, surprising, and wise. From Oscar the Grouch, to Yoda, to the Fraggles. I’ve never stopped loving his work, even as a young frisky man, and on into adulthood. Collaborating with Lisa Henson makes me confident we can do something that Jim would have loved. I’m grateful and excited to be working with New Regency on this project.”
Gordon-Levitt referring to himself as a “young frisky man” is a little unnerving, but it should come as no surprise that he has an affinity for Jim Henson characters. Years of working with living muppet French Stewart make it more or less inevitable.
F***ITY HI, JOSEF STALIN MOVIE!
Fans of political satire and inventive swearing can rejoice colourfully as it seems that Armando Ionucci, creator of Veep and The Thick of It has alluded to his next work. And, surprised as I am to be referring to one of the most brutal rulers in history on my film-news round up, it looks like Josef Stalinis going to be a movie star!
Nothing has actually been officially announced yet, it’s so early stages that they haven’t even built the stage yet, but Ionucci did reference his next project a little bit while at the British Film Institute screening of Starlight Memories. Ionucci described his next film as “a sort of comedy about the death of Stalin”. Peter Capaldi in a bushy moustache please.