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Really? DROP DEAD FRED being remade?
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... saying if you're going to remake something, remake something that you can improve, a concept that wasn't fully explored. And the idea of an imaginary friend returning to you in your adulthood, as your world crumbles around you, trying to help and only causing more trouble is a good idea. They're swapping out Rik Mayall for Russell Brand. No word on who will be playing Phoebe Cates' character... but there aren't many people that have what Cates had. Maybe a Natalie Portman. Anyway, Universal has LAND OF THE LOST's Dennis McNicholas writing the adaptation . They claim to be ...
It's Gotten So Bad They're Remaking 'Drop Dead Fred'
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... But now, The Hollywood Reporter says that Brand, who rose to fame in America in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, will headline the remake of ...
Universal Tells Russell Brand to 'Drop Dead'
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... The Hollywood Reporter tells us the original featured Cates as a wallflower who loses her job and husband during the course of a lunch hour. Forced to live back home, she's reunited with her childhood imaginary friend (Mayall), who promises to help but causes more havoc. ...
Russell Brand Magically Appears For ‘Drop Dead Fred’ Remake
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... According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal is resurrecting the film just for Brand. He’ll play the naughty Fred, and the storyline will be given an overhaul by Dennis McNicholas (”Land of the Lost”) to be a “Beetlejuice”-like world of imaginary friends. There will undoubtedly be some “Fred” fans upset by the news of a Brand makeover, but I think most of us will simply wonder why even the bombs of the ’80s and ’90s are being dug up and brushed off for moviegoers. ...
Russell Brand Starring in a 'Drop Dead Fred' Remake
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... commercially rejected, because otherwise it could have been really good.
Honestly, I'm so dumbfounded that someone even thought to remake Drop Dead Fred that I can barely piece together any sort of sensible reaction. Except: wouldn't combining an imaginary friend movie with the tone and universe of Beetlejuice just end up creating a remake of the Fred Savage/Howie Mandel monster-under-the-bed thesis Little Monsters? I think Universal bought the wrong rights.
Universal remaking 'Drop Dead Fred' [THR]
You Got The Cates Stuff... Baby
Film Experience Blog —
... here. The bizarre news this morning of a remake of Drop Dead Fred coming our way got me thinking on the loveliness that is Miss ...
Drop Dead Fred Gets a Remake. Today in Film Bloggery 04/28/09
SpoutBlog —
... Sign of the Apocalypse #20129: Universal Studios is remaking Drop Dead Fred starring Russell Brand. Which means that Little Monsters remake can’t be too far off. Buff those horns, Howie! ...
