Which of your favorite 80s movies & TV shows will Hollywood (probably) ruin next?

Answer: all of them.

Remakes, reboots, and sequels, OH MY!! Let’s check in on their progress:

ALF

Sony Pic­tures Ani­ma­tion has closed a deal to acquire rights to the clas­sic 1980s sit­com ALF and will develop the prop­erty into a hybrid CG/live action fea­ture. No writer or direc­tor is attached yet. (Paul) Fusco voiced the title char­ac­ter on the show and is expected reprise his role for the movie. [Source:  AICN ]

Frag­gle Rock

Frag­gle Rock­First announced back in Sep­tem­ber of 2005, a fea­ture film ver­sion of “Frag­gle Rock”—the cult children’s tele­vi­sion series cre­ated by Jim Hen­son that ran from 1983 to 1987—was sup­posed to hit the­aters in 2009. As you’ll notice, that never hap­pened, but not for a lack of try­ing. [Source:  Huff­in­g­ton Post ]

RoboCop

In the first teaser for the upcom­ing sci-fi thriller, we’re told to imag­ine a city with no crime, where “human resources meet robotic engi­neer­ing” and all is safe in the world. But — SPOILER ALERT — that won’t actu­ally be the case. [Source:  The Hol­ly­wood Gos­sip ]

The Garbage Pail Kids

Yahoo reports that Michael Eisner’s The Tor­nade Com­pany is now hard at work on a reboot of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie. Accord­ing to Yahoo, Eisener has hired direc­tor PES (whose stop motion short, West­ern Spaghetti won a num­ber of acco­lades) to shoot based off a script by Michael Vuka­diovich, who recently made the Black List. [Source:  Inquisitr ]

Short Circuit

For  Hop  direc­tor Tim Hill, the story of Johnny 5 is more timely now than it was in the midst of Cold War para­noia. Hill hopes this will help the movie’s family-friendly cred while also adding “a wish-fulfillment dimen­sion not present in the orig­i­nal.” [Source:  Cin­emaBlend ]

Highlander

Ryan Reynolds has been cast as eter­nal war­rior Con­nor MacLeod in the forth­com­ing remake of cult 80s fan­tasy High­lander, reports the Track­ing Board. 28 Weeks Later’s Juan Car­los Fres­nadillo looks set to direct the new ver­sion, which will once again focus on a Scot­tish clans­man who must bat­tle other immor­tals until only one of them sur­vives. [Source: The Guardian ]

Dirty Dancing

EW has con­firmed that Lion­s­gate has pushed back its remake of  Dirty Danc­ing . Orig­i­nal  Danc­ing  chore­o­g­ra­pher Kenny Ortega ( High School Musi­cal , Michael Jackson’s  This Is It ) is set to helm this new iter­a­tion, and  Glee  co-creator Brad Falchuk will write the screen­play with Maria Maggenti ( Monte Carlo ). The movie was orig­i­nally slated to hit the­aters July 26, 2013, but now won’t open until 2014. [Source: EW ]

Heavy Metal

Robert Rodriguez had been hint­ing for the past few days that he would have a big announce­ment at the San Diego Comic-Con this week, and yes­ter­day he was finally able to reveal the news: he has picked up the rights to do a brand new ani­mated  Heavy Metal  movie. Most recently David Fincher was try­ing to set up a Heavy Metal remake, but it would appear that he is no longer involved. How­ever, Heavy Metal owner and  Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur­tles cre­ator Kevin East­man will be involved, and the project will be devel­oped through Rodriguez’s new Quick Draw Stu­dios. [Source: Film Junk ]

Red Dawn

The long stag­nat­ing  Red Dawn  remake looks set to finally see the light of day, with a des­ig­nated release date on the hori­zon. Accord­ing to Box Office Mojo, the film will hit screens on Novem­ber 2, 2012 – three years after film­ing wrapped. The film is the first foray into direct­ing by for­mer stunt­man Dan Bradley, who once donned the hockey mask to play Jason Voorhees in  Jason Lives: Fri­day The 13th: Part V I. [Source: Screen Rant ]

Update — Check out the first images here and trailer here .

Child’s Play

Over a year ago now, with MGM back on the rise, it sounded like a remake of  Child’s Play  might finally get­ting off the ground with Brad Dou­rif return­ing to voice everyone’s favorite mur­der­ous lit­tle buddy Chucky. How­ever, since then updates on the project have been stag­nant. Well, Moviehole recently attended North Carolina’s Mad Mon­ster Party con­ven­tion and Dou­rif was in atten­dance for a reunion pre­ced­ing the forth­com­ing 25th anniver­sary of the hor­ror favorite, and offered an update say­ing are­make is  still  in the works, but that a sep­a­rate sequel in the fran­chise was also being devel­oped at the same time. [Source: First Show­ing ]

Romanc­ing the Stone

The bunny-hopping “Romanc­ing the Stone” remake over at Fox may be inch­ing closer towards the cam­eras (some four years after it was ini­tially announced) with the stu­dio now on the hunt for a direc­tor with a “fresh, excit­ing take” on a story that first sur­faced in Bob Zemeckis’ 1984 clas­sic. Robert Luketic was briefly attached to helm the reboot, even going so far as to inter­est his “Ugly Truth” and “Killers” lead Kather­ine Heigl into the lead, but is no longer involved. [Source: Moviehole ]

Poltergeist

Sam Raimi is board­ing MGM’s Pol­ter­geist . The film­maker, who got his start with the  Evil Dead  hor­ror movies, will pro­duce the remake of the 1982 film — which Steven Spiel­berg­pro­duced and co-scripted from his orig­i­nal story — with­Nathan Kahane, Roy Lee, and Robert Tapert. Despite some reports, Raimi is not direct­ing the remake but will help over­see the search for a helmer. [Source: Hol­ly­wood Reporter ]

Ghostbusters

Good news for folks still hop­ing against hope for another  Ghost­busters  movie. Accord­ing to Vari­ety, Sony Pic­tures has tapped  Men in Black 3  scribe Etan Cohen to rewrite a long-in-the-works reboot of the hit ‘80s fran­chise. If he’s suc­cess­ful, it could reunite stars Bill Mur­ray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, as older ver­sions of their youth­ful ghost-chasing selves. But that’s a big ‘if.’ [Source: E! Online ]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

It turns out that Michael Bay and Jonathan Liebesman’s planned “Ninja Tur­tles” movie wasn’t pushed back five months because fans were rebelling against the idea of the tit­u­lar tur­tles no longer being teenage or mutant. Or at least, it wasn’t entirely because of that.  “Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur­tles” co-creator Kevin East­man recently spoke with Comic Book Resources and explained that there were two other major fac­tors in the decision-making process. “Essen­tially they pushed it back for two rea­sons: One is the direc­tor, Jonathan Liebesman, wanted to make sure he could do the effects to the level he wants them at, and the fight scenes to the way they should be,” he said. “Also, their release date is almost exactly on the 30th anniver­sary. May 5, 1984 is when the first Tur­tles comic came out. May 16, 2014, is almost exactly 30 years after. So basi­cally it’s an anniver­sary movie now.” [Source: IFC ]

Bill and Ted’s Excel­lent Adventure

Orig­i­nal  Bill & Ted  cre­ators Ed Solomon and Chris Math­e­son have also attached Dean Parisot ( Galaxy Quest ) to direct their script. Unlike so many recent stu­dio remakes, which have sim­ply recy­cled old mate­r­ial for a new gen­er­a­tion, Solomon and Math­e­son took the unusual step of writ­ing their third  Bill & Ted script on spec in an attempt to ensure a take that would address where Mssrs. Ted Theodore Logan and Bill S. Pre­ston, Esq. are in their lives today as opposed to being a reboot or remake. Insid­ers tell Vul­ture the hope is to make a mid-priced stu­dio com­edy like Hot Tub Time-Machine. Keanu Reeves and Alex Win­ter are attached to star.   [Source: Vul­ture ]

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