News > 'Romancing the Stone' and 'Arthur' Remakes Underway...

It keeps getting better for the 80's purest today, I mean it wasn't enough to break the news about They Live… tack on to that a remake of Romancing the Stone and Arthur. Fox has called on writer Daniel McDermott to resurrect Romancing the Stone.  According to The Hollywood Reporter no producers are attached to the remake yet.

The original movie helped launch Robert Zemeckis as a director, turned Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito – then best known for their TV work – into film stars and established Kathleen Turner as a romantic lead.

Written by Diane Thomas, "Romancing" told the story of a repressed romance novelist who travels to Colombia to find her missing sister only to meet up with an American soldier of fortune. The two embark on a cross-country adventure involving a map, a jewel and a private police force. Thomas wrote the script while working as a waitress in Malibu. It turned out to be her only produced screenplay; she died in a car crash the year after the film's release.

 

 As for the rebirth of Arthur it seems that UK funny man Russel Brand is developing the film with intentions to star as the lead.  THR is reporting that Brand is meeting with writers to lockdown a screenplay for Larry Brezner to produce.

The original movie followed a boozy playboy rascal who is set to inherit a fortune if he marries an heiress his family thinks will make something out of him. However, he falls in love with a working-class woman and turns to his valet for help when his family makes him choose between money and love.

Moore was nominated for an Oscar as was Steve Gordon, the film's writer-director. John Gielgud, who played the valet, won the best supporting actor Oscar, and the movie's theme song, "The Best That You Can Do," won for original song.

Ohh lord while I wish everyone the best I hope they stop here… Please Hollywood please just leave the classics alone….