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The Unnecessary FAME Remake Has A Director Now....
Merrick here...
...it's Kevin Tancharoen. He's a 23 year old choreographer who has done some television work as well (directing, producing, and co-creating material for MTV (TWENTYFOURSEVEN).
Like the original, the updated "Fame" follows the lives of students who attend an elite school for the performing arts in New York from audition to graduation.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Variety.
Interestingly, unless I've missed something, no direct reference has been made to this remake actually being a MUSICAL. Although, hiring a choreographer to direct implies it is, I should think.
Allison Burnett (RESURRECTING THE CHAMP, AUTUMN IN NEW YORK, and BLOODFIST III) is scripting the film, which will hold open casting calls on both coasts next month.
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what's your name, what's your name?
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This is the new catchprase for AICN!!!
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until hollywood replaces with a crappy remake-ake!
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It's been over 30 years for Tony since his break on Broadway where he dumped the diva on her ass. Now he opens a dance school. "Fame - Saturday Night Fever III" directed by Sly Stallone with new songs by Frank Stallone.
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To stomp the set to shreds, thereby preventing the movie from being made.
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What?
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Wow, just...wow! This sounds like the worst possible thing, like, ever. I feel sorry for all the guys with girls who're gonna get dragged to this thing...sorry guys!!
AWESOME new Wall-E Trailer!!
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"Look who's fabulous!"
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That's all I have to say.
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Fame Reboot: Rambo Lives Forever
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and no thanks. F the suit that said, "OMG disney is making money on high school musical, find me one of our properties to counter it."
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oh wait that's the other talkback... ah well how's janet jackson these days. I heard she had the flu.
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thought I was still in the Rambo 5 TB
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It's probably more of a dance movie, like Step Up 2. Because those are popular now, y'know.
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Mar 13, 2008 10:40:43 AM CDT
ENTRY: ROB ZOMBIE'S FAME: YOU CAN'T LIVE FOREVER BECAUSE I SAY S
by jbouganim1
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Das right.
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Aren't all these hip hop street dancing movies just remakes of FAME?
I don't know, just speculating because...I like women so I never watched FAME. -
...and decide what lame remakes we need to 're-imagine' (duh). They say you can always judge the end of something when it starts to eat itself, so how many more 'remakes' or 'reimaginings' do we need?.
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Yeah, Jack Black & Mos Def did. It's only twenty minutes though.
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I remember my mom dragged me along with her to see the original when I was a wee lad. Why is Hollywood remaking movies from the 80s? Has that much time passed by to warrant such remakes? I can't think of one remake that was superior to the original, save The Thing. Didn't The Producers follow in a similar creative pattern? The original Mel Brooks film was followed up years later by a musical? Didn't that bomb at the Box Office? I much preferred the original film.
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Has a poster. It's Merrick.
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There'll be lots of extra traffic, in the streets of New York; now that the kids from FAME! are back, and performimg impromptu productions, in the city streets.
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Not that this movie was a classic, but it was a good movie. I expect a watered down PG-13 version of the original.
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I'm looking forward to this, loved Fame and think it is ripe for an update. Hope it's a full-on musical.
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and right here's where you start paying. In sweat. And crappy remakes. Didn't they try redoing the show, and that sucked too. I think they should bring back the guy who played Montgomery as a psycho, one-armed teacher who sells nukes (imdb it if you don't get the reference). And maybe cast the nurse from Scrubs as the Debbie Allen role. Can't wait not to see this.
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...one movie and TV show at a time? Nobody's re-written Hemingway's books or re-painted Van Gogh's works.I know it's common talkback fodder, but the persistence and thoroughness of this remake fever when it comes to movies, music, and TV is starting to get really disturbing.It's as though a whole generation doesn't have any unqiue experience of their own to draw from, but only regurgitated second-hand experience of someone else's earlier creativity.It almost seems like there are just too many hungry channels of media distribution to feed. There's so much good original work going on, but the number of noise-producing media outlets is like the shelves of some ungodly Super Wal-Mart: so vast that the only way to fill them is with mountains of cheap junk food.
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Rambo enlists in a dance school and his soul takes flight as he finds release in ballet...then that bad muthafucka Leroy starts dealing drugs in the school, and all fucking hell breaks loose. Famebo: Bullets, Ballet, and Big Fucking Guns! Tagline: Because no-one lives forever, fucker...
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I see someone was ahead of me with the Famebo idea. Gotta start reading these talkbacks before I post, I suppose.
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TOO SOON!!!!
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I thought he was doing this after Witch Mountain. At least he has a damn good musical under his belt (Reefer Madness).
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I come from the world of theatre, where unless you're doing a world premiere, EVERYTHING is a remake. This whole "oh, the original is SACRED" bullshit reminds me of religion. Get over yourselves.
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I never learned how to live forever or fly high. People still cry when they see me, though. Here's hoping the new Coco is as cute as the TV version.
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What you need you have to borrow
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I cannot care any less about this movie. It is not possible.
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If you're an amazing dancer, you can put your ass on Youtube and be famous instantly. Nowadays, no one knows or cares who the fuck you are in the industry. Especially dancers. Other than the gorgeous bitches on Dancing With The Stars, I don't know any other dancers and they can eat shit for all I care. You want fame? Do something amazing on YouTube. That is all!!!!! FUCK!
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I'm looking forward to the evaluation and analysis of the predicaments and problems that fame brings people from the vast experience of a 23 year old. Hopefully i'l learn a lot.
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stop doing remakes. If you have a story to tell similar to Fame, at least bother to think up new character names and slightly different circumstances or setting. Yeah, you'll get the inevitable "oh, well, this is just like Fame", but screw that noise. Like someone said above, you could probably make that argument for every single major release movie to come out in the past 5 years. remakes show lack of originality and are fuled by marketing types who want a built-in audience. It's annoying.
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Lot of "cool" news lately that is decidedly "uncool". To Harry, et. al: sometimes fewer, quality articles is better than posting movie news for the sake of posting (especially news about a FUCKING-WHO-GIVES-A-FLYING-FUCK-FAME-FUCKING-REMAKE... (FUCK!)
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Mar 13, 2008 2:03:15 PM CDT
"Hey, it's one of the kids from FAME!" "Which one?" "Any of 'em.
by beedub
Thank you, MST3K.
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The asian classical violinist gets involved with the black inner city dancer.
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Good call. Like how Sandra Oh got paired with Isaiah Washington cuz they were the only two minorities on the show, and that's how the real world is.
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That movie is soooooo one of my guilty pleasures, and while it's not structured the same way as Fame, it's about as close to a remake as we need.Fucking A, the lead girl in Center Stage was hot, especially her dance at the end... whew.
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More like.......LAME!
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...and tell me what you see."
Well, not much really. Pointless, derivative and twenty years too late.
This is the age of American Idol and Paris Hilton. You don't need to excel at something to become famous, you just need to shout 'me me me me!' louder than the next monkey.
In the words of the late, great Edward Blake whenasked what became of the American Dream: "It came true, baby. You're looking at it." -
...it's, as BigTexas42 said above, that they're a replacement for creativity, which often leaves actual original talent out in the cold in favor of studio hacks who just cut & paste the work of their betters.Theater, like live music, is a living, breathing art that evolves and mutates in the hands of every new performer--its very basis for existence is the ongoing present moment, its vitality in movement, not stasis and presevration.These cheap, knocked-off remade movies seem more like re-painted paintings--kind of pointless. It'd be like re-recording a jazz musician's improvisation, note for note. All the pieces would be there, but the spark of what made it great in the first place would be missing.Of course, some film remakes are not only good, but brilliant and vital, even with a great original (Ben Hur, anyone?) My beef is primarily with all the cash-in projects that have nothing to do with deepening the art or experience, just making a quick buck the easy way. The difference is usually clear.
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Parkers fame is timeless. Its still relevant now. Any remake would be spoilt by sub par american Idol/ gangsta rap pigeon english music that would just ruin the idea. I would want to see real musicans grafting for their money. none of this MTV type wubbish.
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At leats I used to smarter. Now I not as.
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should just show us still shots of what the original actors are doing right this very second.
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...get a retarded teenager to re-write the script and all the actresses to take their tops off and call it 'Showgirls II'.
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Remake a useless, trite, nearly unwatchable piece of garbage. Great.
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You know it is coming.
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This movie needs a big muthafucking robot.
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Baby look at meand tell me what you seeYou ain't seen the worst of it yetgive me time I'll make you forget the bestI got nothin' see?no cre-a-ti-vah-tee!I can't think or write worth a damnDon't you know what I am?Remember my name!LAME!I;m gonna live forevah!Watch creativity dieDIE!It's just a big ol' whatevahpeople will see me and cryLAME!...that's it...that's all I got. Hey, I'm bored.
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EDIT BUTTON!!!!!! (grumble grumble)
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for YOU lame-ass geeks who can't see out of the boxes you pack yourselves so tightly in - But I actually think this IS cool news... Just coz you don't get it doesn't mean someone else won't find it interesting... Hell, if that makes me gay - Guess I'm gay.
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I'm gonna wait for cable!
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...marks the beginning of the end of civilization.
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YOU GO GIRL!
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..a cum shot recap..or a fetish menu
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I did Fame onstage in my senior year of high school. You know what? It sucks. A remake is unnecessary because the original was unnecessary.
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The stage version of Fame DOES suck... it's one of those odd reverse sucking things where the stage version isn't as good as the movie... Normally it's the other way around...
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Leroy was the campest street thug ever.Bruno Martelli should be a teacher in the new one,that kid had some talent...http://tinyurl.com/yqdr3h
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blah.
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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? There's going to be a FAME remake as opposed to spending ANY of the money that will be used to finance this on an actual ORIGINAL movie -- you know, something actually NEW?For fuck's sake, this is yet again either proof positive that Hollywood suits are utterly brain dead and creatively bankrupt or that the Mayan calendar-predicted end of the world is actually approaching fast.Great, just what the world needs -- a movie, like the original, that will focus on teens who have had NO real life experiences, yet they will have sooooo fucking much to say about life and love and how things should be in the world and blah, blah, blah, because we adults just don't "get it" or aren't as artistically insightful as them.Fuck you, Hollywood and, fuck you, whoever is financing/making/starring in this. The ONLY bright spot to come out of this completely whore-driven endeavor is that it will give some future CW star his first big break. Other than that it's like flushing money down the toilet that SHOULD be used on a NEW screenplay...a NEW idea...even if you want to roll the dice and make a musical or something.FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, HOLLYWOOD, STOP RAPING YOUR OLD FILM CATALOGUES WHEN THERE ARE NEW SCRIPTS OUT THERE THAT YOU SHOULD BANKROLL. Ever stop to think that maybe a "new idea" will be the next STAR WARS or next LOTR that will bring you in a zillion dollars? No, you didn't because you have your heads up your asses and you DON'T have a single creative idea in your fucking bodies!
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What kind of interesting, deep, thoughtful, reflexive, compelling history can we get from a 23 yrs old.
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Actually, no. But when i was a wee lad the family went to see Shogun Assassin. After half an hour into the severe bloodletting, spurting beheadings and bare breast feedings, the grownups requested a change in venue. We wound up seeing Fame instead, just in time to see Irene Cara's tittie balls. And people wonder why i am the way i am.
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The tv show. Coco was hot. I think.
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He beats up the kids for singing too loud. HE NEEDS SLEEP DAMMIT!
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I could live without this.
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Das right. You know it.
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ok, mahmud ahmadinejad.. fire up the nukes. america must be destroyed. sorry but you need to be thinned from the herd.
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In fact, the TV show remake ran for a number of years.
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Based on the Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo mythos. SUCH A GREAT FILM! These stalwart street performers and raging closet queens SAVED THER REC CENTER!!! WOOOOOOOOT!!! Urban America isn't doomed to an endless grind of systemic poverty, drug addiction, violence, and self-destruction! And we can thank a handful of dancers. SWEET LORD BLESS EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM!!! BLESS THEM!!! BLESS THEM NOW!!! AMEN!!! WOOOT!
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Her tits had testicles?!?!
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...the best knock-back I've ever read! "I'm gay and I don't want to see this" - priceless! Thanks for the laugh, man!
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Beyonce.....Ja-Rule......Jake Lloyd....Dakota Fanning
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Were's my "James at 15" reboot?!
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