This Really Will Live Forever
By Sarah Carlson
April 18, 2007
In another sign that nothing made in the '80s is sacred (A remake of "Weird Science"? Say it isn't so!), MGM is backing a remake of the 1980 movie "Fame." The Allan Parker film followed aspiring performers at the New York Academy of Performing Arts and helped usher in a decade of slouch socks, ripped work-out tees and bike shorts over sweatpants, best worn by Josh Brolin in "The Goonies." It's not great, but it's a "classic" in the sense that it came out in a decade in which Anthony Michael Hall was an "actor" and Michael Jackson was "black." You can't help but not hate it.
[MGM COO Rick] Sands said MGM has hired a writer and director for the project but offered no further details. Casting has not yet begun. He said the studio plans to retain many of the musical elements of the original movie that also launched a global television hit and international stage show."We'll update it, (but) we'll still keep some of the songs. The script is being written right now, but we are keeping it under wraps. There will be a strong musical component, though," Sands said.
I believe the update they're looking for already came in "Center Stage," but it didn't have the catchy tunes. And by catchy, I mean horrible.
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