"'We live in a time where common sense is no longer common,' -Debbie Rochon"
Teen cult film 'Heathers' becoming a Fox TV show
By Superheidi on August 29th, 2009
Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw. The 1989 Christian Slater/Winona Ryder/Shannen Doherty masterpiece of teen black comedy, murder, cliques, and morbidity Heathers is becoming a Fox TV series.
TV writer Mark Rizzo and producer Jenny Bicks (Sex in the City, Men in Trees) are in charge of the adaptation, which worries me, because of Sex in the City and Men in Trees being awful shows in which women are vapid innocent idiots and men are idealized as saviors of the middle-aged single gal. Anyway, this is about teenagers. So thankfully Diablo Cody is not involved...
Veronica Sawyer (played in the movie by Winona Ryder), J.D. (Christian Slater) and the "Heathers" themselves will all stay as characters, but what other horrible changes will be made?
The idea for a Heathers revival came from inside UTA, where reps for Rizzo and Bicks decided the title was ready to be remade and exploited and contacted Lakeshore, who owns the rights to the movie, about redoing it as either a show or a remake film.
"We had the title, and talked about doing a film remake at times," said Lakeshore's Gary Lucchesi, who is probably gettingh a blowjob under the table while smoking a big cigar in his giant office. "But doing it for TV seemed like a fresh and original idea."
Daniel Waters, the writer of the the original film, is rolling in his grave, or would be, if he weren't still alive.
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Another brilliant idea from Hollywood....
Well, let's count the ways this show will suck.
Okay, snarky remark aside, you have to wonder how Hollywood studios are still in business. Sure, this was a pretty big year for Tinseltown, but a lot of the income was due to a couple of movies and some spectacular failures (Land of the Lost, anyone?) should be a wake up call to studio heads.
Instead, the lesson seems to be get third tier actors to star in movies with giant special effects. Or get a known, well-loved title and sign Johnny Depp or Nick Cage to it.
Okay, so I'm ranting. But this is getting annoying. And all the studios do is blame piracy, and not their shoddy products, for falling DVD sales, sagging ratings and vanishing audiences.