Fickman Helming 'Fame' Remake
Hey look, another movie we don't need
I remember a while back when Variety announced there would be a remake of the popular 1980 musical Fame and I didn't report on it because I didn't care. Plus, I can report on it now and also give you word out of Filmjerk that Andy Fickman of She's the Man fame (ha!) will be directing.
Filmjerk goes on and on about how bad a decision it is to bring Fickman aboard with such notables out there such as Rob Marshall, Susan Stroman and Stanley Donen and I can't help but agree, but I also don't really care. Who really wants to see this movie? Then again who wants to go see Delta Farce and who the hell paid to see Next? These are questions that I shouldn't even have to ask but the way society works nowdays they are questions that must be asked.
Fickman recently directed The Rock in The Game Plan, which is expected to release this fall along with the before-mentioned She's the Man starring Amanda Bynes. Filmjerk also tells us that he directed the stage musical version of "Reefer Madness," whose record-breaking Los Angeles run (expected to only last two weeks but ending up playing to packed houses for over a year and a half) helped get the show transfered to off-Broadway, where it had the bad luck of being scheduled to open just four days after what became the tragic events of 9/11.
Perhaps his stage work has him prepped for this, perhaps not. Once again, perhaps I don't care.
The picture is expected to hit theaters summer 2008 through MGM Studios.
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Thanks for the link, but I did not say it was a bad decision to put Fickman in the director's chair, let alone go on and on about it. I was really just fleshing out a story that would have otherwise been sixty or seventy words. I hope this new version of Fame is successful, if only because my wife and I love musicals and every successful musical can only help get more musicals greenlit… as long they dump every song from the original Parker version and create a whole new song score. Maybe just have the kids all do songs from "Bugsy Malone."