Fox plans to Re’Romance the Stone’ (sigh of ambivalence)

At risk of sounding like a broken record, I want to RE-emphasize my philosophy that remakes are acceptable when they are remakes old older movies with good stories but poor execution. If you’re going to remake a movie, do it to make it better! Otherwise, leave it the Hell alone!

With that said, I was absolutely floored (but, not surprised) this morning to read that Fox Studios, with their infinite collective wisdom and immense level of creative originality, is planning a remake of the 1984 romantic adventure comedy ‘Romancing the Stone’. I loved this movie when I was a young’un and still do.

The original film, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, was based on the novel by Diane Thomas. The original film pretty much made Michael Douglas and Danny Devito into movie stars, who had previously done mostly TV work. The film also launched the career of Zemeckis and helped audiences to reimagine Turner in a new light. The “remake” has been written by Daniel McDermott, who helped write ‘Eagle Eye’ and is also working on a screenplay for a remake of ‘Soylent Green’. I suppose they’ll remake ‘Jewel of the Nile’ as well?

[source: HollywoodReporter.com]