film and video
Sky and MTV should leave Rocky Horror the f*** alone
It has been announced that cult musical film The Rocky Horror Picture Show is to be remade, 33 years after it was first released. A joint venture by Sky Movies in the UK and MTV in the US, those renowned purveyors of quality viewing material such as…. er, such as…
Okay, but anyway…
The film has the backing of Rocky Horror creator, Richard O'Brien, who will, in his lifelong role as one-trick-pony, be acting as co-producer. Before anyone declares O’Brien’s involvement as a surefire guarantee that the new version will be at least as fabulous as the original, let’s not forget the sequel… Say what? You had forgotten it? Probably for the best. But then there’s The Crystal Maze game show.
O’Brien cannot be trusted to provide any degree of quality control, so we can expect to see high-profile busty celebrities cast in the leading roles of Janet and Magenta, while we’ll probably get some dumb reality show reject playing Rocky. Who will play Frank N Furter is anyone’s guess. If it were someone like Anthony Stewart Head, who has played the part on stage, we might hold out some hope… But chances are, we’ll get Russell Brand playing the part in character as, um, Russell Brand.
tags: remakes, Rocky Horror Picture Show, sequelitis, sequels
