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‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’: Victoria Justice Leads Remake Cast
Dammit, Janet!
Victoria Justice, pictured below, and Ryan McCartan have joined Fox’s “Rocky Horror Picture Show” television remake and will play the two young leads, Janet and Brad, respectively, TheWrap reports.
“Penny Dreadful” star Reeve Carney, who played Peter Parker in Broadway’s “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” has also joined the cast along with Staz Nair. Carney will play Riff Raff, who was portrayed by creator Richard O’Brien in the original.
The newcomers will star opposite Laverne Cox, who was the first cast member announced. Cox has been cast in the role of Frank-N-Furter, the main antagonist of the story, played by Tim Curry in the original 1975 film.
Justice and McCartan’s roles were originally played by Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick.
The 2-hour remake, which will be filmed in advance, not live, will be produced by Kenny Ortega — who will be directing and choreographing the movie — as well as former president of entertainment at Fox Broadcasting Company Gail Berman and Lou Adler, who produced the original movie.
“Rocky Horror Picture Show” is slated to premiere on Fox in fall, 2016.
One of this summer’s most hotly anticipated new movies is A24 and Ti West’s MaXXXine, a follow-up to X and Pearl that brings Mia Goth’s title character into the 1980s.
With her past catching up to her, Maxine attempts to make it big as a superstar in Hollywood, 1985. While you wait, check out a new image below courtesy of USA Today this week.
Releasing in theaters on July 5, 2024, MaXXXine is rated “R” for…
“Strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use.”
If you missed the official trailer, you can watch it right here.
Mia Goth stars alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon in MaXXXine.
Here’s the official plot synopsis from A24 this week: “In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”
Last we saw Maxine in Ti West’s X (2022), she was the sole survivor of a massacre carried out by elderly couple Howard and Pearl in the Summer of ’79. Goth of course pulled double duty as the villain Pearl in that movie, who got her own origin story in Pearl (2022). Pearl and Maxine are different characters, but they share the common goal of wanting to be stars.
Will Maxine finally make it in Hollywood? Or will the demons of her past become her ultimate downfall? With the Night Stalker roaming free, we expect MaXXXine to get wild this summer.
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