This week in Has Been News…

Updated on August 19, 2008 By Ken Begg 12 Comments

Howard Stern is supposedly looking to produce a remake of Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. Howard, m’man, you are cutting edge, brother. Made thirty years ago (!), RnRHS is one of those enigmatic Roger Corman productions where extreme cheapness proportionally equalled extreme fun. Maybe they can pointlessly jack up the scale of things, as with the upcoming Death Race.

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  • Ericb

    Who is he going to get to replace the Ramones? I can’t think of any current bands that fit that musical niche.

  • Yeah, that’s the most obvious problem. Aerosmith is succificiently cool, but hardly punkish at this point, and certainly not as rebellious as the Ramonese were back in the day, which is kind of the movie’s whole point.

  • MS69

    Didnt he make this announcement about 10 years ago too? He should without question leave this classic alone. Maybe he can redo the abysmal sequel?

  • Aerosmith?!? Cool??!? Sure, witness their brilliant forays into other media, like Revolution X and Guitar Hero Aerosmith. Aerosmith IS super-cool… if you ask Aerosmith.

    There is no modern-day analogue to the Ramones. Howard Stern is a moron. And I’d be upset about that rotten Death Race remake, but let’s not kid ourselves. It’ll be gone in a week. Most people can’t even distinguish it from Doomsday.

  • If you think this doesn’t sound cutting edge then now would be a good time to tell you that Stern also has the rights to PORKY’S and has been trying to get that remake off the ground for a few years now too.

  • Good grief!

    Of course, this is a guy who spent like twenty years trying to make a Fartman movie.

  • Ericb

    Maybe it will be “PORKY’S in Space.”

  • BeckoningChasm

    Actually, a good band that could sub for the Ramones (who are almost all dead anyway) would be Art Brut. They’re punky and funny.

    Actually, a good idea for the movie would be to set it 30 YEARS LATER. Get as much of the original cast together as possible and have them behave the same way…because none of them ever graduated high school! They’re eternal adolescents. And they’re going to celebrate the last time they really rocked out, 30 years ago! You could get some really decrepit band like the Rolling Stones to be the musical stars.

    That idea is such genius it’s a shame I’ll never see any of the millions generated from it.

  • Hasimir Fenring

    …a good band that could sub for the Ramones (who are almost all dead anyway) would be…some really decrepit band like the Rolling Stones…

    Aren’t the Rolling Stones almost all dead, too?

    Oh wait, it’s just their integrity. Sorry for the confusion.

  • Pip

    I saw The Stone Rollings in Oklahoma City in 2003. It was an interesting nexus of perfect showmanship and going-through-the-motions.

    Pip

  • I’d probably go with Jackyl. Not really a punk band, but they’ve got spirit. Any band that plays the chainsaw is alright with me.

  • Ericb

    Do contemporary high school kids even listen to rock music anymore? I thought that modern teens were mostly into hip-hop, pop divas and “modern” (i.e. crap)country.