Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I've never really watched NIP/TUCK... I've seen an episode or two, but it didn't really hook me. So I don't know if it's good news or bad news that NIP/TUCK's Dylan Walsh is now cast as the titular Stepfather in the remake coming from Screengems.

Sela Ward is playing the clueless mother and Penn Badgley is playing the son... a strange bit of casting since a quick jump to IMDB shows that he certainly can't be playing a kid... so it'll be the late-teens/early 20s son that has to figure out that his new stepfather is a psycho. Adrianne Palicki is in talks to play the son's girlfriend.

They say they're aiming for a more Hitchcock style thriller than a splatterfest, but the original wasn't what I'd call a gore-heavy film. It was definitely more about the creepy father... the bomb under the table that we know can and will go off at any time.

I don't know. I'm not super attached to the original, but I like it enough to not be happy to see a lame remake come out. Hopefully this one will surpass my expectations.