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Tuesday
27Oct2009

'Paul Blart' Director Boards the 'Short Circuit' Remake

DateTuesday, October 27, 2009 at 3:40PM
Were it not for Dan Milano (Robot Chicken) writing the screenplay, I'd have very few good things to say about a remake of Short Circuit. What a silly movie. And it was tragically unnecessary back in 1986, which makes me wonder how it will be refitting almost 25 years later.

Dimension is revamping the concept - another bad omen - and the studio has hired Steve Carr to direct. Carr made lemonade out of Paul Blart: Mall Cop, an idea so leaden it absolutely shouldn't have worked. It was a mild distraction, neither good nor terrible, but if you polled anyone who saw it, I doubt they'd say it was well-directed. If anything, they liked Kevin James, who has a way of getting audiences on his side.

The remake won't pair Johnny 5 with an Ally Sheedy type, but instead a lonely boy and his family. But Johnny himself might remain mostly unchanged. Says producer David Foster, "We're taking advantage of the improvements in robotics that are so massive that robots are now performing heart surgeries in hospitals."

Frankly, I'd rather see that movie.

Tough to blame Carr for taking the gig, however. He's getting while the getting's good. I'm curious to see if this has any attraction for audiences, though. Somehow I doubt it will be huge, partly because of the sort of thing Foster says: We're kind of used to robots now. Johnny 5 was a novelty back in the day.

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this is a terrible idea

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterhendrix

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