Thursday, February 16, 2012
Uh-Oh
Flavorwire: That goofy, 1980s-riffic story about romance on the wrong side of the tracks, Valley Girl, is being remade into a musical feature film. Deadline is reporting that commercial director Clay Weiner will be shooting the story that follows a punk-esque guy and a bubbly Valley girl (with a jerky boyfriend) as they try to navigate their mismatched love connection.
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Oh, like, gag me with a spoon.
Maybe they'll make it really, truly bad by filming it in claymation.
Another thing I can completely ignore.
I will give it a credit if the producers persuade Deborah Foreman to come out of acting retirement, to play, presumably, her original-film character's mother or a teacher/principal sort of role...Foreman and a relatively subdued Nic Cage as the parents would be improbably amusing.
Todd, I had the same thought. Foreman made the original watchable and Cage would be amusing a generation later. Maybe he could play it as Johnny Blaze.
Jeff
Goofy isn't unfair, but VALLEY GIRL was a genuinely good (not great) film, better than any of the John Hughes films. Foreman's whole career was devoted to uplifting any project she was in, and they tended to get more sad as time went on...a younger, cute, female John Astin thus.
Cage, with KICKASS, showed that he can still moderate himself when inspired to do so...
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