Last year, all the citizens of Transsexual, Transylvania felt a collective disturbance in their fandom force. MTV had announced that they were going to do a remake of the classic cult film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Not only would this be completely unnecessary, but it actually kind of hurt every Rocky fan's soul to hear it. Rocky Horror needs no remake because it never becomes dated. It's so far removed from, well, everything ever, it still holds up perfectly, happily doing the Time Warp again and again in its own little universe.
Well, maybe MTV got lazy or maybe they got freaked out about the insane amount of Internet sad-chatter against the idea of the new version, but MTV's Rocky Horror remake is on hold. Rejoice and prod a gold underwear-clad Adonis with a standing candelabra.
I can't imagine anyone being upset about this news about the remake, except for maybe the suits that thought there were big bucks to be made by relaunching something that needs no relaunching. It was a ballsy move, I'll admit, to even begin to tempt the anger of Rocky fans everywhere. The fact that they didn't have the involvement or the blessing of Richard O'Brien (creator, writer and one of the stars) was also insult to injury. I'm surprised it took MTV over a year to admit things are going nowhere.
Actually, now that I think about it, maybe MTV dropped it because a musical is too music-related.
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9-02-2009 @ 2:58PM
Alicia R. said...
Thank God! It would have been a train wreck... and not in that RHPS kinda way.
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9-02-2009 @ 4:14PM
jim said...
I'd LOVE for Rocky Horror to be remade, if only because it would piss off every Rocky Horror fan. Cause I hate Rocky Horror.
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9-02-2009 @ 9:44PM
Tom said...
Glad to hear that. How could they improve on it. It's a low budget rock musical that on the surface isn't that great. What makes it great is the music and the audience partici---wait for it---------pation. I should know. I was with a group that got up to act it out back in the early 80's. It was a lot of fun and I think I still know most of the lines we yelled at the screen.
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