Remakes We'd Like To See

[fflo]

Get it?

Best plot summary for the new version wins a prize...

Comments

[lovelikeyeast.livejournal.com]

I can't really contribute to that one, but I feel that this is the most appropriate place to share my breakthrough vision (that I had when I first heard that ben stiller was remaking starsky and hutch):

Cagney & Lacey. Rosie and Ellen. No? That movie was meant for them!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

If Rosie & Ellen do Cagney & Lacey: The Movie, they could, in one project, earn absolution for Mr. Wrong (Ellen's "comedy" about stalking) and the recent TV movie in which Rosie apparently hammed it up as a mentally challenged woman who loved to ride the bus. (I suppose I shouldn't talk about the latter, not having seen it, but c'mon... surely some amends are needed there.)

Plus if they played C&L as lovers, they could have their closetiness washed away like so many minor traffic violations... (so my religious metaphors are a little weak now & then)

[lovelikeyeast.livejournal.com]

No way, man. Not lovers! It's a schlocky hollywood-dyke buddy movie if ever I've thought one up. I was in part inspired by the way rosie used to have penny marshall on her show, which somehow wedged its way into my unconscious...

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Okay, okay. But maybe Cagney can at least exchange some lusty looks with a witness to a crime, and Lacey can have had some implied hot nookie with a character who speaks no lines ... ? I guess what I'm saying is that sub-sub-subtext isn't enough for me any more. No Fried Green Thelma & Lou for me no mo'.

[lovelikeyeast.livejournal.com]

Ugh, no subtext. I think they will have to in some sense "compete" for the attention of some hot "lady" they're both after, and one will respectfully back off when things don't work out and the other 2 are, after all, made for each other.

[retch] Yes, my fantasies are every bit as formulaic as the real thing!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Nuthin wrong with that formula. Esp cuz we'll get to ponder each potential coupling during the course of the action.

Does Penny play the salty old-school dyke who runs the somewhat-unrealistically-still-in-business lezzie bar? Or is she the Chief of Police?

[bigfinedaddy.livejournal.com]

But what about her husband Haaaaarve?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, him. Crap. What do you think?