I'm blogging in spurts again, but this is important.

[monkeybard]

No really!  It is important!



Thanks to kayjayuu for the tip!

Comments

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Good luck with that - much as I agree it won't be a worthy remake. Two major players will be involved as producers: "Sky announced that Richard O'Brien, who wrote the stage production, co-wrote the screenplay and directed the first film, would return as a producer for the remake. Lou Adler, who served as executive producer of the 1975 movie, will be back in the same role for the upcoming project."

[monkeybard]

That's encouraging, but I still wish they'd just stop digging though old movies to see what they can remake and get back to making original ones. Creativity and Hollywood have been pretty much polar opposites of late, you know?

PS. What're you hanging out here for? Don't you have a wedding to prep for? Go! Party! Celebrate! ;D

[write-light.livejournal.com]

:D I'm so awesome that it's all ready to go. :D

[monkeybard]

Ah! Of course. I should have realized. At least I managed to mail the card today so there's an outside chance you'll get it tomorrow. That is my great accomplishment for the day. ;)

[write-light.livejournal.com]

:* to you! Card-mailing seems to be on the decline, as many dear friends/non-attendees haven't sent them.

*hugs*

[monkeybard]

Silly card non-senders. Pooh to them, say I!

[kayjayuu.livejournal.com]

Actually, Richard O'Brien is all WTF? about it, since first he'd heard was when people were sending him the news clips.

I'd say I was surprised, but no.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

AH! Well that's good/bad to hear.

[monkeybard]

Hrm. Yeah. What he said.

[sunkrux.livejournal.com]

Uh, there ain't nothing wrong with the ORIGINAL! ::rolleyes::

You know why a lot of remakes are being made by Hollywood? Cause some of the production houses have no fucking imagination and/or they're too lazy to come up with something NEW. ::rolleyes::

*wanders off to sign it...

[monkeybard]

That's basically what I said when I signed it. There's a comment field. :)

[sunkrux.livejournal.com]

I did too. LOL ;D

[monkeybard]

GMTA. ;D

[devinam.livejournal.com]

So, out of curiousity, why does it matter if they re-make it? they're not removing the original, they're not even taking it out of print or syndication, so...what good will it serve to stop them spending whatever money they want to on whatever they want? I don't particularly have a care one way or the other, but I find it a bit, um, anti-first ammendment-ish and almost scary right wing-ish to try to petition to stop an artistic endeavor of any kind, regardless of who's doing it and what they're re-making.
i'm just curious. :)
Now, if they said "we want to burn the original and replace it with a cheap knockoff" that would be another story. ;)

[monkeybard]

It's the supreme lack of creativity on the part of Hollywierd that I object to. Incapable of doing anything with any creativity or originality, they dig through their vaults to see what classics they can scrounge up to remake in an attempt to make themselves money without producing anything genuinely new. It's one thing to mount multiple productions of a stage show; there have been plenty of Rocky Horror and IMO should be many more. In this case, for me, it boils down to "It ain't broke, so don't try to fix it (because you'll only fuck it up)."

Did that make sense? I'm so mind-numb from a *fascinating* conference call that I'm not sure I'm even typing in English right now.

[devinam.livejournal.com]

yup, that makes sense. so from your perspective the petition isn't "don't make it just because i don't want you to" it's more "get off your lazy ass and find something original"?

[monkeybard]

Definitely! Although my friend kayjayuu summed it up in her comment on her blog better and more thoroughly than I. (You might need to scroll down to find it.)

[devinam.livejournal.com]

interesting point. much to think on. thanks!

[monkeybard]

Isn't it? She's a smart and articulate one, that kayjayuu. :)

[kayjayuu.livejournal.com]

O_O

[monkeybard]

I just calls 'em like I sees 'em. :)

[sunkrux.livejournal.com]

She's dead on. And people wonder why kids of today are so boring. They get remakes of remakes of remakes shoved down their throats so much so that they can't have an original thought themselves. Sadness.

[monkeybard]

Word to that.