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Remake mania: 'Romancing the Stone', 'Arthur'

Posted on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008
by Andrea Miller - Cineplex Entertainment

Russell Brand

Need further proof that Hollywood is running out of good ideas? According to the Hollywood Reporter, two hit '80s comedies are set to get the remake treatment.

The Michael Douglas-Kathleen Turner starrer Romancing the Stone, wherein Turner's big city novelist travels to Colombia to rescue her sister and becomes embroiled in a treasure hunt with Douglas' dashing hero, is to be re-visited by Daniel McDermott. McDermott, a former DreamWorks Television exec who recently co-wrote the Shia LeBoeuf hit Eagle Eye, is tapped to pen the Stone remake. (The film's original screenwriter, Diane Thomas, died in a car crash a year after the film's release.)

And British bad boy Russell Brand is also set to jump on the remake bandwagon with news that he's meeting with other screenwriters to refurbish Arthur. The 1981 comedy starred Dudley Moore as a wealthy booze hound whose parents want him to marry a haughty heiress when his heart belongs to a working-class Liza Minnelli. Enlisting his trusty butler to help orchestrate their eventual union, comedy and heartache ensue, making Brand a logical choice to take on the role of a lethargic lothario in this winking rom-com.

Mainstream audiences were given their first glimpse of this Brand archetype when he appeared as Aldous Snow, the rock star playboy who stole the eponymous girlfriend in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and he next appears alongside Adam Sandler in the decidedly kid-friendly fare Bedtime Stories.

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