how 'bout an update????


I am not one who likes seeing 80s franchises and pop culture movies being updated, however,.........
Little Shop Of Horrors is one of the few pieces I'd actually agree on for an updated version. Here's why,.....
Doesn't seem to be very many musicals coming out these days that are actually good anymore. They're usually knock-offs of something else.
The film version for 1986 has the right kind of off-beat humor that most people would appreciate. Having an update would probably have a similar style of comedy, but try for a different approach.
The original piece was a 'throw together' piece that was shot in only two days, and there's plenty of material that can or could be added.
Most diehard fans of the show would more than likely prefer the original ending that was shown for the theatrical stage run. The ending that Frank Oz shot was a good idea, but I think most diehards would prefer the original ending.
The 1986 version seems to only a hour and a half. While most films seem to run this length, not many musical films have this time duration. Extending the run time to at least 100 minutes would make more sense.
Cameos galore for this movie. Seems like that was the thing to do for big budget movies like this. Today you could get more cameos out of a piece like this than ever before.
Casting call. Casting big names would ruin the movie unless someone you'd least expect would take the major roles. Unknowns are risky, but then again, seems like casting unknowns usually makes for larger successes.
Just my two cents. Would love the chance to write or direct something like this, but the real question is who would want to do it???

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Oh man... you're speaking to one of those die-hard fans.

There was a lot of buzz a couple years ago about Warner Brothers making a new version of this movie, and I have to say, despite being unsure about the studio in question, I would love to see it happen. I'm not one to hate on a well-timed remake, and for me it doesn't necessarily have to live up to the original. Would I absolutely love to see a remake one-up this cult horror classic? Yes. Yes. Uh, yes. But even if it can't match the original, it *can*, if made well, serve as tribute. Personally, that's how I saw the new Karate Kid movie.

It seems the interwebs have been pretty silent about this movie since May 2012. Folks were saying Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa of Glee was in talks to rewrite it. Though I've never actually seen an entire episode of Glee and have no particular interest to, this seems like a good fit. They were also saying Joseph Gordon-Levitt would play Seymour, but if I'm not mistaken that was a rumor. I'm only hoping the remake in question was not.

I definitely prefer the original ending of the film, but you know, it's funny. Without that other ending I wonder if it would have turned into such a box office success, and the cult classic it is today. So, for giving the film exposure and thus people the time they needed to come around, I am grateful for it.

And I agree on the time as well--there are a few special numbers from the musical that were either cut out or cut short in both the original and the director's cut of the film and it's really weaker for it, in my opinion. If you haven't heard it yet, check out this one: http://grooveshark.com/s/11+The+Meek+Shall+Inherit/2JQ4Qt?src=5

Casting... for Seymour, just let it be somebody other than Johnny Depp. All I gotta say about Audrey is they're gonna have a hard time finding a replacement for Ellen Greene; she is a goddess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAhkOkUhxp8 I don't have any suggestions for Tuey, but I'd hope they get somebody fun.

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It seems the interwebs have been pretty silent about this movie since May 2012. Folks were saying Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa of Glee was in talks to rewrite it. Though I've never actually seen an entire episode of Glee and have no particular interest to, this seems like a good fit.

Ugh. Anything but Glee losers! If anyone from Glee gets involved, you just know everyone in the movie will be played by that bunch of pretenders. No. Just no.

Casting... for Seymour, just let it be somebody other than Johnny Depp. All I gotta say about Audrey is they're gonna have a hard time finding a replacement for Ellen Greene; she is a goddess:

Yes! And yes!
Johnny Depp is ruining one musical after another but hopefully he's too old already for Seymour (he doesn't have the right range either but that didn't stop him from butchering Sweeney Todd)
And Ellen Greene is... very hard to replace. Big shoes to fill. I have seen several stage versions over the years and nobody even came close. And I don't just mean the singing. She just gives so much soul to Audrey, while making her the perfect "dumb blonde", she's a gem.

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

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Seymour - Jesse Eisenberg
Audrey - Anna Farris
Audrey II - Samuel L. Jackson

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Audrey II-Cee Lo Green

It's that man again!!

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I'm not for a remake, but if one was made, Audrey II should be voiced by a smooth, sultry woman. I think that would be a little scarier. A "tough black guy" voice has been done already.

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I'm not very attached to this movie. I was far more attached to Ghostbusters and that movie wasn't that meaningful or nostalgic to me. I was one of the ones who didn't object when the reboot was announced and instead said, "hope it's funny, go nuts" -- because I honestly think Stripes is funnier than Ghostbusters.

That being said, I don't want to see a remake of the musical Little Shop of Horrors. It's not out of stubborn nostalgia, it's just that even if you remade it, it would still have the same depressing, bleak script the stage show had and all the problematic characterization I took issue with.

You know what could use a remake? Roger Corman's The Little Shop of Horrors. It's a funnier movie. It's more upbeat. But it's not very well made, the special effects are very clearly inferior to the Frank Oz movie (Corman's "Audrey Junior" looks like two coconut halves stuck together and flapped around via a string), and you can clearly see that when the plant is talking, it's just the writer shouting its lines offscreen because they didn't do a good job of making it look like the plant was talking.

There are really impressive aspects to Frank Oz's film -- the puppeteering and Audrey II characterization being the best parts, but it's not a movie I'd remake because any remake would carry over the problems that Oz's film has. You can expand upon the 1960 film and improve upon it, but remaking the musical would be pointless.

The biggest complaint people had about the Rocky Horror Picture Show remake was that it was a carbon copy of the original. Little Shop of Horrors' musical remake would amount to the same thing.

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