ravinlunachick Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 http://www.familyvideo.com/entertainment-news/article/800666190/paul-rudd-to-star-in-upcoming-remake-of-the-princess-bride Why?!? Why?? Yeah, I guess given the current climate in Hollywood, it was inevitable, but I'm still :eek: at the thought of what they'll do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyhomemaker25 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Kelly Kapoor as Princess Buttercup?????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 If they do a remake - boycott. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 No Remake for Princess Bride!!! I just created a FB group with the above name, free for all to join! Let's get a protest underway!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillian Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Definitely won't be seeing the remake nope no way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 In. Con. Ceivable! :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in Neverland Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 HERESY!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negin Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 In. Con. Ceivable! :glare: :iagree: Hollywood will do anything for $$$. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punchie Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Why does Hollywood have to keep remaking movies? Are they so short on ideas that they can't come up w/anything original? Original Princess Bride all the way!!! <--this movie was the very first VHS my mom bought. I remember her coming home, setting up the VCR, and popping it in. I must have been around 7-8 yrs old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalicoKat Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 The Goonies is overdue for a remake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Noooo! :eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravinlunachick Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 The Goonies is overdue for a remake. <gasp> Hush your mouth!! Is not! :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom-ninja. Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Mindy Kaling? She does not fit the description of Buttercup in the book at all. I will watch it. I'm curious as to how it will be. I wonder if they'll bring out Buttercup's lacking in the brain department more in this movie. Who in the world is going to play Fezzik? Nothing will replace the first movie though. It has a special place in my heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MunRoLy Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 The original is perfect! I saw it in the theatre with my parents when it first came out. I can still remember whining at them the entire ride because I didn't want to see it. (guess I was 13 at the time). And of course I thought it was the best movie ever! I think my kids watched it twice last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan in SC Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 This was a staged reading. It received wonderful reviews, but I don't think they are turning it into a new movie. Jason Reitman has done several staged reading of movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerPoppy Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 You cannot improve upon perfection. I say we stage a very public boycott, call the news people, and throw the new movie off the cliffs of insanity! (Anybody know where the cliffs of insanity are? :D ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalicoKat Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 <gasp> Hush your mouth!! Is not! :tongue_smilie: Not even if they get Johnny Depp a role? Hmmm, I think he'd be a good Goonie. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mynyel Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 No Remake for Princess Bride!!! I just created a FB group with the above name, free for all to join! Let's get a protest underway!!! I just added myself to the group! Posting on my FB page! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harriet Vane Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 HERESY!!!!! :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderchica Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 This was a staged reading. It received wonderful reviews, but I don't think they are turning it into a new movie. Jason Reitman has done several staged reading of movies. Yup. No plans to remake the movie. The article posted is inaccurate. Here is an accurate one about the reading- http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20558503,00.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LG Gone Wild Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 No Remake for Princess Bride!!! I just created a FB group with the above name, free for all to join! Let's get a protest underway!!! Link? I will join! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Link? I will join! https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/groups/158238234287510/ or just search for it on FB under the group name ;);) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderchica Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 They are not remaking the movie. As a pp said, this was a staged reading in L.A. The article posted was inaccurate. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20558503,00.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in Neverland Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 The Goonies is overdue for a remake. AHHHHH!!!!!!!! :svengo: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmansWife Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 It was bad enough they remade Footloose....now this? Boo! :thumbdown: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outdoorsy Type Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Do Not Blaspheme! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkacademy Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 It was bad enough they remade Footloose....now this? Boo! :thumbdown: I never saw it. I have not saw any of the remakes I refuse. I didn't see Clash Of The Titans either. And no they cannot come up with new ideas because in risk of sounding rude the people who originally did these movies and such were from another time when original thought and imagination was still a good thing. Hasn't anyone noticed there has been hardly any real movies lately it seems. They do remakes because of all the new computer type stuff they can do so it is better. Sadly it is not. The Goonies needs to be left alone as well. I still cringe when I see what they did to Godzilla. Granted the originals were all off key when put into english that one they did a few years back was just sad. American television is also making doubles of some of the BBC shows which is just stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usetoschool Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 It just really really bugs me that they take perfectly good stories or movies and thing "they" can do it better. It is never better, as far as I have seen. And a whole generation of kids thinks the drivel they are putting out is the real thing. Fantastic computer generated special effects do not a good movie make. Get used to disappointment... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 In. Con. Ceivable! :glare: :iagree: First Dirty Dancing. Then Footloose. WHERE WILL THE MADNESS END??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan in SC Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I think you all will be happy to know that there is not remake in the works, as of now!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaffodilDreams Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I think you all will be happy to know that there is not remake in the works, as of now!!! Do you have a link for this info? The latest news I can find is the one linked in the OP. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillian Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I just looked up Paul Rudd on IMDB and it isn't listed under his credentials as rumored even Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan in SC Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Here is the review of the staged reading. http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/12/17/review-jason-reitmans-live-read-of-the-princess-bride.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 A staged reading is kinda cool. A remake would obviously not be. But I'd be cool with a Goonies remake. I like the Goonies and all, but... it could be updated or improved upon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravinlunachick Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 Oh, Jan in SC, you have made me so happy! Bless you! :) I found the Paste magazine article mentioned in the OP link. It appears that someone with a serious lack of comprehension passed along a misunderstanding. Paste makes it clear it was a staged reading. http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/12/jason-reitman-announces-cast-of-princess-bride-cas.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibbygirl Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 http://www.familyvideo.com/entertainment-news/article/800666190/paul-rudd-to-star-in-upcoming-remake-of-the-princess-bride Why?!? Why?? Yeah, I guess given the current climate in Hollywood, it was inevitable, but I'm still :eek: at the thought of what they'll do. Well shoot! **knocks a pile of books over in frustration** I like Paul Rudd, but come on, NO ONE could play it better than Cary Elwes. That role was made for him. Why do they always have to re-make everything?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaffodilDreams Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Oh, thank goodness, no remake! All is right in the universe again. ; ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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