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Who better to fill Eddie Albert's shoes than... The Rock?!?

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Dwayne Johnson is having the most interesting, bizarre career. He goes from DOOM to SOUTHLAND TALES to GRIDIRON GANG to GET SMART to a remake of ESCAPE FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN.

It seems he's filling the role Eddie Albert played, except he'll be driving a Taxi (A Vegas taxi no less... I wonder if it'll have 30 strip club advertisements on it and have little booklets with coupons for lap dances and all you can eat seafood buffets like the real cabs in Vegas?) instead of a badass Winnebago.

I haven't really revisited the WITCH MOUNTAIN series since I was teenager, but I loved them as a kid. Don't know what I think of this casting other than I have a large amount of disinterest. I don't know if it's just because the film is a remake or that The Rock will play a Vegas cab driver instead of an old widower as in the original or if I just have a disconnection from the original entirely. What about you?


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by Midol Boy
Aug 29th, 2007
01:36:11 AM
Original was mediocre
by Midol Boy
Aug 29th, 2007
01:39:48 AM
Return To Witch Mountain was cool
by tristeele
Aug 29th, 2007
01:44:56 AM
For a second there...
by Tenguman
Aug 29th, 2007
01:50:11 AM
Now remaking crappy movies!!
by Poloboy
Aug 29th, 2007
02:14:19 AM
Rocky sucks
by Doc_Strange
Aug 29th, 2007
02:17:17 AM
For A Moment, I Thought You Meant...
by buster00
Aug 29th, 2007
02:43:25 AM
Ok - this kind of stuff is OK to remake
by Doctor_Sin
Aug 29th, 2007
03:06:43 AM
Loved those movies as a kid
by barnaby jones
Aug 29th, 2007
03:27:11 AM
Rockster loves remakes
by PacmanFever
Aug 29th, 2007
03:57:11 AM
Love Dwayne and Witch Mtn., but this kinda sucks.
by Shermdawg
Aug 29th, 2007
04:02:35 AM
DWAYNE JOHNSON SHOULD BE SUPERMAN!!!
by Shermdawg
Aug 29th, 2007
04:05:51 AM
Ummmmm......no
by Mister Man
Aug 29th, 2007
04:07:19 AM
Countless talkbacks, and I haven't been given...
by Shermdawg
Aug 29th, 2007
06:35:26 AM
Shermdawg...
by Abin Sur
Aug 29th, 2007
06:55:00 AM
They must've loved him after "The Game Plan"...
by Anna Valerious
Aug 29th, 2007
08:14:40 AM
Where's my "Gus" remake?
by Nice Marmot
Aug 29th, 2007
08:15:54 AM
Close Encounters 2.0...Starring "The Rock"
by uss cygnus
Aug 29th, 2007
08:33:06 AM
Hope Rock has time for Apple Dumpling Gang 2!!!
by TheGhostWhoLurks
Aug 29th, 2007
08:33:33 AM
Well, it could be worse....
by KajiC
Aug 29th, 2007
08:42:52 AM
Damn, I thought this was about...
by Kid Z
Aug 29th, 2007
09:49:00 AM
Oh! And reunite the Pixies one more time...
by Kid Z
Aug 29th, 2007
09:53:13 AM
thank god
by Bloo
Aug 29th, 2007
11:16:35 AM
Atleast its The Rock
by mrjoker
Aug 29th, 2007
11:49:51 AM
Greenlight Green Acres!!
by Lord Haw Haw
Aug 29th, 2007
12:06:24 PM
The Rock is Kraven the Hunter
by Big Jim
Aug 29th, 2007
01:07:12 PM
Aw hell... what the f***...
by Kid Z
Aug 29th, 2007
01:18:26 PM
Anything with the Rock in it SUCKS!
by SeymourClearly
Aug 29th, 2007
01:34:53 PM
Vin Deisel in the Rob Zombie Green Acres Remake!
by Drunken Busboy
Aug 29th, 2007
05:21:13 PM
Make a 'Green Acres' movie!
by Laserhead
Aug 29th, 2007
05:57:37 PM
'Gridiron Gang' was actually a decent movie
by Ribbons
Aug 29th, 2007
05:59:24 PM
Count me in for Green Acres
by No-Op
Aug 29th, 2007
07:00:55 PM
Eddie Albert in "Attack!"
by Uncapie
Aug 29th, 2007
10:24:37 PM
Rock to work with Robert Wagner on '70's TV show "Switch"!
by MrMysteryGuest
Aug 29th, 2007
11:51:38 PM
I can See the Rock in the Eddie Albert Role
by kevinwillis.net
Aug 30th, 2007
10:34:47 AM

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