I suppose I could dwell on the fact that a major Hollywood guild has once again ignored the very existence of TV's finest acting ensemble, Friday Night Lights — in favor of the mugging and posturing on Boston Legal. As they'd say on another SAG favorite, Grey's Anatomy: Seriously? Is it wrong to want to form our own picket line?Also: What's up with snubbing Pushing Daisies and its fantastical cast?And yet the Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations, announced Thursday morning, did shower love on my favorite new show of 2007, AMC's Mad Men, and its terrific star, Jon Hamm (who has just joined the cast of the remake of the sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still, with Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, which sounds appropriately robotic). So while not all may be forgiven, the wound stings a little less.My favorite part of the SAG Awards is the ensemble-cast category. Because let's face it, most great TV shows rely on cast chemistry. Even The Closer, which on face value looks like a vehi...
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Entourage's Jeremy Piven will star as a used-car liquidator enlisted to save a struggling dealership in the comedy The Goods: The Don Ready Story, says the Reporter.... Keanu Reeves is set to play Klaatu in a re-imagining of The Day the Earth Stood Still, the 1951 sci-fi classic about a humanoid alien who arrives on Earth with an armed robot and a warning.... Virgin Comics is bringing Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future out of retirement, in the form of a new line of comic books and a feature film.... Tim Burton has been told by Warner Bros. suits to pull back on the gore in Sweeney Todd, which at last cut showed a 10-year-old feeding human body parts into a meat grinder.
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Question: Since the majority of movies nowadays are remakes, is there a possibility of remaking The Day the Earth Stood Still? Please!
Answer: Though its message is as timely as ever, I can't imagine why anyone would want to see a remake of a movie as perfectly realized as The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). But I guess you'll be pleased to hear that Variety announced in late 2005 that there is one in preproduction. The bad news (or the worse news, depending on your basic take) is that Robert Luketic, heretofore associated with comedies like Monster-in-Law (2005) and Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004), is slated to direct.
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