Footloose is one of those movies I’d watch for the laughs. Watching Kevin Bacon prancing around just brings tears to my eyes from laughing way too hard. So when word got out last year that Paramount wanted a reboot, I was thinking.. ‘Really, Hollywood?! Is that the best you can do?! Remaking Footloose?!’
Not too long ago, Zac Efron, who was attached to this project, announced that he did not want to do this gig anymore because he wanted to venture out to other genres and become a versatile actor. Whatever! A movie like ’18 Again’ is as versatile as he’ll ever get.
Paramount doesn’t have its star yet but via comingsoon.net, it has a theatrical release date and FOOTLOOSE reboot will open on June 18th, 2010. Better get that casting choices crackin’, cause time is of the essence.
Another announcement is from Lionsgate about the movie BROTHERS, directed by Jim Sheridan (In America) starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and the ever beautiful Natalie Portman. It will hit theaters on December 4th, 2009 in time for Oscar worthy season.
Based on the 2004 Danish movie Brodre directed by Susanne Bier, this was the official synopsis..
On his way to report for a peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan, Danish Army officer Michael stops to pick up his brother Jannik, who is getting out of jail that day. In Afghanistan, Michael’s helicopter crashes and he is presumed dead. Jannik and Michael’s wife Sarah discover that they don’t hate each other as much as they had thought, and Jannik decides to reform and make himself useful around Sarah’s house. Then Michael comes home with a full-blown case of post traumatic stress disorder because of what he had to do to survive in captivity. Write your own ending and draw your own moral conclusions, if any.
Jim Sheridan‘s version will have different character names. Jake plays Tommy and Tobey plays Sam, they’re brothers and Portman plays Grace.
Thanks for Rama’s SCREEN reader Esteban for the heads up
