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‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ Becomes FOX “Event”
Back in 2006 Marilyn Manson was to star in a remake to The Rocky Horror Picture Show for 20th Century Fox. He told E! News that he approached star as the sweet transvestite, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, originally played by Tim Curry in the 1975 cult classic musical.
Now, nearly a decade later, FOX has decided a revival will happen, cast contingent, as a television miniseries.
The two-hour event special is executive produced by Gail Berman of The Jackal Group, the 1975 movie’s producer Lou Adler and Kenny Ortega, who is set to direct and choreograph, says Deadline.
Tentatively titled “The Rocky Horror Picture Show Event,” the project is described as a reimagining of the campy horror feature, which, 40 years after its release continues to play in theaters around the world – the longest theatrical distribution frame for any film in history.
Like was the original plan, the remake is expected to stick faithfully to the text and the score but reimagine the story visually.
In Jim Sharman’s 1975 original, a newly engaged couple (Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick) have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Curry).
Writer-director Francis Galluppi will soon face off Kandarian demons by helming the next Evil Dead film. This week sees the release of his star-studded feature debut, The Last Stop in Yuma County. An original Western thriller in the vein of early Coen Brothers, the film arrives this Friday, May 10 from Well Go USA in select theaters and VOD.
In anticipation, Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive clip featuring stars Jocelin Donahue and Barbara Crampton. Watch below and find the trailer and poster art underneath.
Here’s the story: “While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty—or cold, hard steel—to protect their bloodstained, ill-begotten fortune.”
Joining Donahue and Crampton is a who’s who of horror favorites: Jim Cummings, Richard Brake, Faizon Love, Alex Essoe, Michael Abbott Jr., Sierra McCormick, Nicholas Logan, Sam Huntington, Connor Paolo, Robin Bartlett, Jon Proudstar, Ryan Masson, and Gene Jones.
In her glowing review, our head critic Meagan Navarro says The Last Stop in Yuma County is “bustling with life and boisterous personalities, reflective on screen in every facet.” She adds, “Galluppi makes it so effortlessly easy to get sucked into this slick, singular world and invest in its characters, only for the filmmaker to revel in dispatching them.”
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