Top 10 Remakes We Don’t Need
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
6. Footloose
The original: 1984
The remake: TBA
Instead of Kevin Bacon we’ll be treated to the sight of Zac Efron trying to cut footloose. Cue a billion tween girls swooning at the prospect of the High School Musical heartthrob raging against the machine that considers dancing dirty and criminal. And that’s going to be the biggest problem with this 21st-century overhaul of one of the first MTV-influenced musicals. With Efron kicking off his Sunday shoes, it will be hard to view this new Footloose as anything other than an extension of the Disney-crossbred-with-Shakespeare franchise. And the prospect of bubblegum pop versions of “Footloose,” “Almost Paradise” and “Holding Out for a Hero” is enough to make you drive sharp foreign objects into your ears. So let’s not hear it for the boy again.
Photo(s) by Paramount Pictures- © 2008- All Rights Reserved
