Wow, what a pointless remake.
I’m sitting here wracking my brain, trying to understand what could have possibly motivated the folks who remade the 1980 movie Fame.
Any updating they did was purely superficial. On the contrary, the original was far grittier, just as inclusive (if not more so, as I’ll explain in a minute), and gave you a much better sense of the emotional cost to a life in the arts.
And if the point was just to eschew reality and make an entertaining fantasy version of a school for the arts – a sort of High School Musical for older teens -- well, the 1980s Fame series was far more entertaining than this current movie too.
The only possible motivation I can see is money. But as all the instructors at the school in the movie say again and again, art must be “truthful” and “authentic” or there...
I’m sitting here wracking my brain, trying to understand what could have possibly motivated the folks who remade the 1980 movie Fame.
Any updating they did was purely superficial. On the contrary, the original was far grittier, just as inclusive (if not more so, as I’ll explain in a minute), and gave you a much better sense of the emotional cost to a life in the arts.
And if the point was just to eschew reality and make an entertaining fantasy version of a school for the arts – a sort of High School Musical for older teens -- well, the 1980s Fame series was far more entertaining than this current movie too.
The only possible motivation I can see is money. But as all the instructors at the school in the movie say again and again, art must be “truthful” and “authentic” or there...
- 9/25/2009
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
It didn't dawn on me while watching his recent Dr. Pepper commercial, but after this bit of new I have to wonder: Did Kelsey Grammer not take care of his money? I mean, playing Frasier Crane on Cheers made him a wealthy man, but playing that character for another dozen years or whatever it was on Frasier made him obscenely rich. So why in the name of David Hyde-Pierce is he joining the cast of the Fame remake?
Grammer will join Megan Mullally, Charles S. Dutton, Bebe Neuwirth, and Debbie Allen in the cast, and of course, Neuwirth spent 20 years popping up as Frasier's bitter half, Lilith. They'll all play teachers and school administrators in the remake, which has already begun filming and will be released on September 25th, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Said MGM's Mary Parent in carefully chosen words that were likely first strung together by...
Grammer will join Megan Mullally, Charles S. Dutton, Bebe Neuwirth, and Debbie Allen in the cast, and of course, Neuwirth spent 20 years popping up as Frasier's bitter half, Lilith. They'll all play teachers and school administrators in the remake, which has already begun filming and will be released on September 25th, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Said MGM's Mary Parent in carefully chosen words that were likely first strung together by...
- 12/1/2008
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Thomas Dekker, the star of Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles, has joined the cast of the remake of Fame.
I am really not sure why we need a remake of Fame, apparently some people think we do. I am not one of those people.
The Hollywood Reporter had a announcement regarding actor Thomas Dekker and his addition to the cast,
"...[Dekker] is in talks to take a lead role in MGM's remake of the 1980 musical "Fame." Dekker is gunning to play Marco, a working-class kid with some gnarly acting chops who is competing with thousands of other hopefuls to get into and survive an elite New York public high school for the arts. Written by Allison Burnett, the revamp will be directed by Kevin Tancharoen."
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I am really not sure why we need a remake of Fame, apparently some people think we do. I am not one of those people.
The Hollywood Reporter had a announcement regarding actor Thomas Dekker and his addition to the cast,
"...[Dekker] is in talks to take a lead role in MGM's remake of the 1980 musical "Fame." Dekker is gunning to play Marco, a working-class kid with some gnarly acting chops who is competing with thousands of other hopefuls to get into and survive an elite New York public high school for the arts. Written by Allison Burnett, the revamp will be directed by Kevin Tancharoen."
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- 9/30/2008
- by IESB Staff <alyson@iesb.net>
- IESB.net
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