Okay, it’s official: Hollywood is really, truly, 100 percent stone cold out of ideas. The confirmation came with the news that Tom Welling, who plays Superman on Smallville (one of the three or four shows on the CW that people watch without being duct-taped to the couch) has been cast in a remake of Teen Wolf. As Enrico Fermi once said: “Who ordered that?” Michael J. Fox is a nice guy who’s faced Parkinson’s with grace and dignity, but his big-screen career peaked with Back to the Future, and Teen Wolf was trivial even by comparison to the rest of his oeuvre. Right now, this sounds like the most profoundly unnecessary remake ever. Although I’ll probably be looking back on it fondly by 2012, when the remake of The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the Volcano Mystery hits the holoscreens, featuring cutting-edge CGI technology that permits Elle Fanning to play the parts of both twins simultaneously. Truly, we live in an age of wonders.
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What’s worse? Hmmmm…well, all those cartoon adaptations they’ve made recently? In about 15 years when Hollywood is ever further out of ideas, they will begin remaking them. If the first “Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle” wasn’t a sign of the apocolypse, a remake of it surely has to be.
Michael J. Fox was actually really good on “Spin City” if you ever caught it. I never saw Charlie Sheen’s run on the show because I kinda stopped watching regular television at that point, but MJF was amusing in the role the exasperated deputy mayor of NYC.
Also, Alex P. Keaton - I had such a crush on that little Republican hottie.
As far as Teen Wolf goes, it doesn’t offend me as much as the action movie remakes. It couldn’t be worse than Teen Wolf Too….poor Jason Bateman.
Oh Good Lord…
Hollywood is remaking…get ready…Teen Wolf. I wonder if they’ll have another guy showing off his willy at the end of the movie. You know, like in the first one…….
I liked Michael just fine as Alex Keaton, and he was perfectly watchable on Spin City. (So was Heather Locklear, for that matter.) But he never quite made the transition from television to movies. Teen Wolf might have been his second-biggest film, and that’s not exactly a Tom Hanks kind of resume.
As Enrico Fermi once said: “Who ordered that?�
It was Rabi, not Fermi, but good use of obscure allusion there.
I overreached myself there, Angie, but it’s nice to see someone caught it.
Could be worse. They could be re-doing American Werewolf in London. WAIT! That would be better.
Let’s hope they don’t remake Teen Wolf Too! That would be terrible. Or make a 3rd Teen Wolf movie, Son (or Daughter) of Teen Wolf. Yikes!
Gee, I can’t wait till the Zapped! remake hits the screen.
Tom Hanks was in as many bad films as Michael J Fox. The success of an actor has a lot to do with LUCK or perhaps a good agent. I always think there are quite some great actors being underrated simply because they weren’t lucky enough to be in great films. Oh well …
Teen wolf is certainly NOT MJF’ second biggest film in term of either boxoffice or film quality, although It might be his second most influential film among teenagers. In the late 80s and early 90s, MJF had several comedic hit films (Besides BTTF triology) which generated better boxoffice income than TW. He also had a few damatic films which received good reviews from movie critics but didn’t do very well in boxoffice. By the way, do you know MJF was viewed as one of top 5 perfomers in Boxoffice by the movie theater managers in 80s? I read this a few weeks ago on a movie database site.
Almost every actor, including the greatest ones, had down period somewhere in their career path. MJF’ down period in his movie career came in 90s. As talented as he is, he should’ve been able to break out from the dark period had he been healthy. Unfortunately for MJF, his parkson disease was diagnosed at the same time when his career took a downturn. The disgnosis completely changed his career path and altered his perspectives on life.
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