Brand to Star in Drop Dead Fred Remake

[Poetic Chaos]

Random but I love it! I loved the original as a kid and had plenty of inside jokes made around it back in the day. Classic.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

No, I think his real introduction to Americans was his role in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I mean thats when i first really heard of him. And their making a spin-off from FSM with the Aldos Snow character.

 

[mclay18]

DDF was a bad movie, I saw it a few years ago and thought, "wow -- it's badly dated." The only thing worth watching in it was Phoebe Cates and Rik Mayall just hammed it up to horrible effect.

I pray that the remake will actually be funny. And don't have Mayall do a cameo, for the sake of audiences everywhere.

 

[Octoberist]

it sad that Phoebe Cates, who is still hot now, never really did anything with her career past Gremlins. I still don't understand why. To me, she was the original Anne Hatheaway/Zooey Deschenel.

 

[Octoberist]

i have to add...that even as a kid, I thought that Drop Dead Fred was a response to BeatleJuice.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Isn't Phoebe Cates married to Kevin Kline? I think I read that somewhere.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Isn't Phoebe Cates married to Kevin Kline? I think I read that somewhere.

Yeah, she is. I think she left acting, to spend more time with her kids.

 

[Obi-Ron]

Yeah, she is. I think she left acting, to spend more time with her kids.

A sad day for girl watchers everywhere.

 

[Octoberist]

from what i know, she is still pretty cute.

 

[jaymes_e06]

I loved DDF it was my all time favorite guilty pleasure horror comedy of all time!

They will never do the original justice. Not that that will stop them from making it but I'm just saying.

 

[Sawyer]

I'll never understand the concept of *****ing about a remake and saying it's going to ''ruin" the original film if it's bad. No, no it's not. The only thing it'll ruin is itself, that good old original you adore so much? It's still there...untouched, still just as good as the first time you watched it. No remake (essentially another filmed version or take on said film) is gonna ''ruin" the original film.

It's not like they are going back pulling that old film out of storage, filming new scenes to place DIRECTLY into it, then re-releasing it with new scenes. THEN, then, it would be ''ruining" that classic film, then and only then. Otherwise, remakes don't touch the film's they are adapted from.

Exactly. It's stupid to put so much effort into complaining about remakes, when it's not as if they've wiped the original off the face of the earth...

 

[thejon93]

Wow... I love Judd Apatow movies to death. But the one thing I don't like about his movies are all the poor stars he gives birth to. The main attraction to that statement (in my opinion) was 'Superbad', all those annoying kids (Cera and that "McLovin" kid especially)... Somebody please put a stop to it

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

Wow... I love Judd Apatow movies to death. But the one thing I don't like about his movies are all the poor stars he gives birth to. The main attraction to that statement (in my opinion) was 'Superbad', all those annoying kids (Cera and that "McLovin" kid especially)... Somebody please put a stop to it

The reason I loved Superbad is because of those kids. I was one of those kids in high school. I could relate to them so much. I was McLoven, Seth, and Even all wrapped into one. People enjoyed that film because they could connect with the characters. It was better than watching a film about some jackass jock or pretty boy trying to 'enlighten' themselves. I've seen those movies over and over and they all end the same. I wasn't a jock or popular kid, why would I connect with films like that? Superbad had the odd, differenct characters that you rarely see as the focus point of a film.

 

[thejon93]

The reason I loved Superbad is because of those kids. I was one of those kids in high school. I could relate to them so much. I was McLoven, Seth, and Even all wrapped into one. People enjoyed that film because they could connect with the characters. It was better than watching a film about some jackass jock or pretty boy trying to 'enlighten' themselves. I've seen those movies over and over and they all end the same. I wasn't a jock or popular kid, why would I connect with films like that? Superbad had the odd, differenct characters that you rarely see as the focus point of a film.

Good for you, glad you liked the film. But... I didn't. I'm sorry, but I'm just not a fan of these kinds of movies that promotes the "good side" to these realistic attributes of a teenager's life. I'm not a doctor, or any ---- like that, but I'm willing to say that the majority of the teenagers who went to see this all walked out saying: "We gotta do this". These are the kinds of movies that are just plain bad influences on society's brain-dead individuals.

 

[Ender Durden]

Good for you, glad you liked the film. But... I didn't. I'm sorry, but I'm just not a fan of these kinds of movies that promotes the "good side" to these realistic attributes of a teenager's life. I'm not a doctor, or any ---- like that, but I'm willing to say that the majority of the teenagers who went to see this all walked out saying: "We gotta do this". These are the kinds of movies that are just plain bad influences on society's brain-dead individuals.

o please stop playing psychiatrist to Americas youth, a youth you obviously lost touch with a long time ago. teenagers aren't so dumb that they'll go out and repeat what they see in a movie, especially if its a movie about stupid things they do anyway. If teenagers go out and get fake id's for alcohol, its cuz theyve been doing it since forever. Even before fake id's were made. If kids cuss and act like jackasses, its cuz thats what kids in groups do! not because they saw it in Superbad

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

o please stop playing psychiatrist to Americas youth, a youth you obviously lost touch with a long time ago. teenagers aren't so dumb that they'll go out and repeat what they see in a movie, especially if its a movie about stupid things they do anyway. If teenagers go out and get fake id's for alcohol, its cuz theyve been doing it since forever. Even before fake id's were made. If kids cuss and act like jackasses, its cuz thats what kids in groups do! not because they saw it in Superbad

Exactly. Superbad was a reflection of today's youth, not at all an influence. I was in High School way before Superbad came out and I did the same things the kids in SB did. I was never influenced by the film because I was doing that stuff years and years before. I use to borrow a guy's ID to buy beer because the guy looked like me. I use to use it to go to a party and get drunk. I've been in some messed up situation with cops involved. Superbad reflected those things from when I was in school.

Kids today, wow...Superbad is FAR FAR FARRRRR OFF at the moment. Trust me, today's youth are really SuperExtremeBad but not because of the movie, but because society has slightly changed into a less disapproving nature. I don't know how to explain it anymore, but Superbad was tame compaired to what the future filmmakers will reflect about in their films.

 

[K.B.]

I agree with Bleeding corpse and might I add...


HOLY F**K FOX!

I'm glad you got a wolverine movie coming out in 2 days but I don't need to see the giant pop up literally every 2 seconds!

Anyone else seeing this monstrosity on their screens?

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

I agree with Bleeding corpse and might I add...


HOLY F**K FOX!

I'm glad you got a wolverine movie coming out in 2 days but I don't need to see the giant pop up literally every 2 seconds!

Anyone else seeing this monstrosity on their screens?

No, You need to see that pop up to keep you reminded that the movie comes out this week and that you need to buy a Shcick Quattro Titanium Wolverine razor (and the razor refills) along with eating Xtreme cheese Papa Johns Wolverine pizza while wearing an X-Men Origins t-shirt with Wolverine in the center of it. GOT IT? Remember, they're doing it for your own good so that they can help you waste your money.

 

[thejon93]

o please stop playing psychiatrist to Americas youth, a youth you obviously lost touch with a long time ago. teenagers aren't so dumb that they'll go out and repeat what they see in a movie, especially if its a movie about stupid things they do anyway. If teenagers go out and get fake id's for alcohol, its cuz theyve been doing it since forever. Even before fake id's were made. If kids cuss and act like jackasses, its cuz thats what kids in groups do! not because they saw it in Superbad

Exactly. Superbad was a reflection of today's youth, not at all an influence. I was in High School way before Superbad came out and I did the same things the kids in SB did. I was never influenced by the film because I was doing that stuff years and years before. I use to borrow a guy's ID to buy beer because the guy looked like me. I use to use it to go to a party and get drunk. I've been in some messed up situation with cops involved. Superbad reflected those things from when I was in school.

Kids today, wow...Superbad is FAR FAR FARRRRR OFF at the moment. Trust me, today's youth are really SuperExtremeBad but not because of the movie, but because society has slightly changed into a less disapproving nature. I don't know how to explain it anymore, but Superbad was tame compaired to what the future filmmakers will reflect about in their films.

I'm just telling you what I see from these films. And maybe that's why I don't really like the film because I'm a biased individual, I'm sorry. But back to how this started (the "Kids are annoying" comment I made), I can't really say I felt that way about the lot. I liked Jonah Hill's character. But Cera and the third kid (who I didn't like, for one, because he felt like a sort of "tacked on" character, in a way and in my opinion). Mainly I didn't like Cera because (once again) I'm biased to the kind of character he brings to the screen. In every film he's in, he aways has to play that semi-confused teenager who doesn't really know what he wants to do. 'Superbad' is not mean-spirited with it's material (like that 'Observe and Report' film) in anyway whatsoever, but I just didn't come out enjoying it because I'm biased. This may be a film I enjoy at an older age, but it's not one of those films that I enjoy now as a guy fresh out of high school.

 

[Ion Kenshin]

I abo****ely loved this movie as a child and I still do to this day. C'mon how can you forget things like the Mega ***** and "no you doing it wrong...you're supposed to peck at her ...like the pigeons"....I think Russel Brand can do a good job of pulling of the annoying over the top personality of Fred. I really hope they do a good job with it.

 

[That-Guy]

Universal Pictures is developing a remake of Drop Dead Fred for Russell Brand to star in, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Dennis McNicholas (upcoming Land of the Lost) will write the remake. Marc Platt is producing via his studio-based Marc Platt Productions along with Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.

The 1991 original starred Phoebe 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 (Brit actor Rik Mayall), who promises to help but causes more havoc.

The trade says the take for the update is to make a film in the tone of Beetlejuice, building a universe around the concept of imaginary friends. Brand would play the trouble-making pal.






Ugghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh f**king terrible
And have we sunk so low we are now re-making films from the 90's?

facepalmfacepalm:facepalm

Well, I guess now that they've already remade every good movie ever made, they've moved on to movies that never should have been made in the first place.

 

[mclay18]

Well, I think this remake is actually a good example "If it's broke, fix it." I don't like the movie myself, the concept needs improvement. (And the original film was also executive-produced by Tim Bevan.)

Brand's kooky enough to make Fred work, I think. Anything's better than Rik Mayall.

 

[That-Guy]

I think it's more of a case of "It's broke, so haul its ass off to the junkyard." Some things should just be left to die.

 

[Ender Durden]

Wow, where all the DDF hate come from? I used to think everyone loved this movie. Most people i know do, may be because we grew up with it. I actually just watched it recently and, i dunno, i thought it aged ok.

GOD phoebe cates was soooo gorgeous

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

I abo****ely loved this movie as a child and I still do to this day. C'mon how can you forget things like the Mega ***** and "no you doing it wrong...you're supposed to peck at her ...like the pigeons"....I think Russel Brand can do a good job of pulling of the annoying over the top personality of Fred. I really hope they do a good job with it.

He's basicly Fred already as he is. I love DDF and Russel Brand...to me, it's like Reeses Peanut Butter Cups....cocolate and peanut butter together....it's mmmmmmmmm Good.