Romancing the Stone Remake Still Trucking
Tue, August 23, 2011 
Nine times out of ten, we dismiss the idea of remaking what we perceive as a classic 80s movie. Something we grew up watching on either on VHS, and subsequently wearing the copy down to the bone, or on cable, long before the days of original programming where it was just movies and reruns of old shows.
Some of it, I'm sure, is psychological. The decision-makers and ball-rollers at studios are in essence saying, "That's old stuff! Kids today don't know what that is, so let's make it new for them!" Thing is we were kids (maybe a little younger, or maybe a little older depending on your age) when we first saw them. By default, that would make us "old" now would it not?
Our pals at Movie Hole are hearing through the grapevine 20th Century Fox is "inching closer towards the cameras" on their Romancing the Stone remake. They're in search for a new director after Robert Luketic vacated. Someone young and hungry, instead of a simple "point the camera and shoot" helmer. Sounds like they're hoping to strike gold like the Dawn of the Dead remake did when they hired a wet-behind-the-ears commercial director named Zack Snyder.
As for the circa-2011 versions of Joan Wilder and Jack Colton, the likes of Katherine Heigl (Who does need a hit after a slew of shitty rom-coms), Taylor Kitsch (Which may or may not be a good idea after John Carter and Battleship drop next year) and Gerald Butler (Oh boy...) are getting tossed around the Fox offices. None of them particularly interesting, or bankable.
Peter and I spit-balled a handful of better choices earlier this morning over the phone: Rachel Weisz, Elizabeth Banks and Amy Adams for Joan and Hugh Jackman, Jon Hamm, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans for Jack. But it's the early days of the remake and an outside-the-box choice could come from the eventual director none of us thought about.
Or the Romancing the Stone remake just plain never happens and Fox decides that Alvin & the Chipmunks: Squeakageddon is the better production to greenlight.
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