And lo, that long-awaited Mystic Pizza remake draws one stop closer…

Updated on May 29, 2009 By Ken Begg 14 Comments

“Twentieth Century Fox and Lakeshore Entertainment are developing a remake of Girls Just Want to Have Fun, reports Variety.

The studio has hired Michelle Morgan to write a new version of the film, which centered on two girls who share a passion for dancing and the hit show “Dance TV.”

The 1985 teen comedy starred Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker.”

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  • Melvin

    According to Rotten Tomatoes, this is the least of our worries. Along with this and Buffy, we will see remakes of Alien, Dr Who, and Flight of the Navigator.

    Rotten Tomatoes damns the Star Trek reboot to hell.

  • fish eye no miko

    I’ve actually seen GJWHF… I seem to recall liking it (I was pretty young, though).

    Melvin: How would they “remake” Dr Who? You mean the Peter Cushing movies, where he’s actually a human who created the TARDIS?
    /Yes, I’ve seen both of them.

  • GalaxyJane

    Maybe they mean an American version ala “Coupling”, “Men Behaving Badly”, etc. And we know how well those worked out. Admittedly I really don’t see the point considering that Dr. Who’s entire potential audience is already watching the real thing.

    *raises hand sheepishly* and I’ve watched them both too. I love Peter Cushing, but, um, no.

  • fish eye no miko

    OOoh, American DW. Yeah.. we already got that, in 1996. It sucked (though I did like Paul McGann). And, yeah what’s the point if Americans are already watching the British one? Though you could say that about a lot of shows. Localized remakes of shows made sense at one time, but with the Internet and networks like BBC America, people can watch shows from just about any country they want these days (especially if there’s no language barrier that would necessitate subtitling).

  • GalaxyJane

    I wouldn’t go so far as to say the 1996 movie sucked, at least it was a BBC co-production and I was happy to see them let Sylvester McCoy actually pass the reins, but it did set the ridiculous precedent for the Doctor becoming romantically involved with his companions. That has to be the aspect of the new series I loathe most. It’s also why the newest infantile casting is leaving me with very little hope for the next stage of the revival. Donna Noble was such a refreshing change, with no pining over unrequited love and I hated what they did to her. I’m afraid we’ll be right back to the annoying “I love him, but he’ll never notice me” crap.

    OTOH, I love Steven Moffet’s writing so maybe we can replace the domestics with the sort of more horror-oriented stories that were always my favorites. And he’s also funny as hell.

  • BeckoningChasm

    “Donna Noble was such a refreshing change, with no pining over unrequited love and I hated what they did to her.”

    My thoughts exactly, and the single reason I will never watch Doctor Who again.

  • I really don’t understand all these unnecessary remakes. I also really hated that they remade “Hairspray.” It’s a John Waters movie, starring Divine and Ricki Lake, not a goofy John Travolta/Zak Efron vehicle. And while I don’t mind Michalle Pfeiffer, she is no Deborah Harry. Never was, never will be.

  • The new Dr. Who is troubling, I don’t only intensely dislike the romance angle, which is completely unnecessary, and such a departure from the original, but they have also taken the worst of the Peter Davison preachiness and turned it up to eleven and then some. Not to mention the messianic role they gave the Doctor. (I think the ultimate Dr Who scene is from the Christmas special where the Dr is flown by two metal angels to save the earth and Kylie Minogue from a crashing space Titanic. Trite plot, needless pop culture, stupid romance and absurd messianic scenes… if it only had out of left field homosexual references and a bit of smug preaching, it would be the ideal symbol for the whole new series.)

    Though before you wonder whether they will bother making an American version of a BBC show Americans are already watching, don’t forget the incredible Life on Mars they remade as a dreadful American show… (Though I do wonder why BBC feels the need to subtitle Gene Hunt, at least in Ashes to Ashes. His accent is nowhere near incomprehensible.)

    So it is completely possible we will see an American Dr. Who. And if you thought the romance and preachiness was bad, well wait until Hollywood gets hold of it. Unless they decide to make it a Michael Bay Dr. Who. then we lose the preachiness to replace it with exploding Cybermen heads and flaming Daleks. Still get the Romance, but even less understandable, and much less developed, than the idiotic Rose storyline. (By the way, when did on line ‘shipper’ fiction become source material for BBC productions? I know they are low budget, but the orignal Dr. Who could at least afford better scripts “Leela pines for the Doctor” or “Sarah Jane and the Doctor explore the unresolved sexual tension”…)

  • Petoht

    Wait… there’s been a Doctor other than Tom Baker?! Shock!

  • Actually, I was thinking John Pertwee with the Sarah Jane comment, not Tom Baker. He always seemed to be more of a chick magnet. I think it was the cool car and frilly shirts.

  • Then again, if the current crop of writers had been writing for Pertwee, he and Sergeant Benton would have been an item.

  • GalaxyJane

    Close Andrew, but SGT Benton’s love for our favorite frilly-shirted practitioner of Venusian Judo would go unrequited. He’d cry a lot more too (SGT Benton, that is).

  • I do give BBC credit for one thing. When US shows want to score PC points without losing viewers they create lesbian characters (looking at you, Joss Whedon!) because they know even “unenlightened homophobes” enjoy watching women grope one another. To cast gay men, and even more show them kissing as Torchwood did, is much more brave. I may think it is a bit ham-handed, and often injected needlessly into story lines, in Dr Who and Torchwood, at least I give them points for bravery, and for eschewing (mostly) the “let’s titillate while claiming to be PC feminists” route of Wheedon, House and others. (Well, Torchwood did both, having an alien possesisng a woman kiss Gwen in one episode and Toshiko turn lesbian in another, but at least they aren’t exclusively craven/pandering like US television.)

  • What bugs me is the continuous placement of homosexual activity in almost every singble episode. Even an innocuous episode like Gridlock had to have the lesbian gbrandmas.