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Robot Chicken writer will draft the new Short Circuit remake
Dimension Films has tapped Robot Chicken writer Dan Milano to draft the script for Short Circuit, the remake of the 1986 sci-fi comedy, Variety reported.
The original movie was about Number 5, an armed robot who acquires a personality after a lightning strike and seeks the help of humans to prevent his destruction by the military.
Milano writes and provides voices for the Adult Swim cartoon Robot Chicken and co-created and played the title character on TV's Greg the Bunny. He will bring a subversive edge to the original film, which was written by S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock.
David Foster, who produced the original and is back to produce the remake with Ryan E. Heppe and John Hyde, said that Milano first watched the original while he was in high school and sparked to updating the concept.
By Angusthegreat at 3:44 AM ON 06/04/09
give up. you'll never get it right. do something origional. theirs only one number 5. make a sequel if you must. jonny five becomes a daddy?
By 3 at 9:37 AM ON 06/04/09
I just re-watched the original a few weeks ago for a class I'm taking. The original is admittedly a classic, but I also wouldn't consider it an "untouchable great." They did make a sequel already, actually, and it didn't work. A remake could be watchable...
By Mooshell at 10:57 AM ON 06/04/09
Wait, what?
Come up with something new or go home!!
By GrahamDee at 11:49 AM ON 06/04/09
I am lost for words here! Remake, remake, remake.....What happened to original thought?? If its bad enough there are too many sequels to everything - now its rehashing old films. Is it because they are regarded as a "safe" investment???
Like a lot of planned remakes - the original wasn't really up to much to start with.
Come ON!! Lets have something NEW and DIFFERENT and ORIGINAL!!
By basilisk at 5:35 PM ON 06/04/09
Not another remake... this is just pathetic.
By DakaMan at 6:15 PM ON 06/04/09
NO REMAKE JOHNY 5
By WyrdestGeek at 6:47 PM ON 06/04/09
Color me dubious. I mean I dunno. "updating the concept"? Should I choose to distrust this new movie proposal because they clearly intend to tamper with Johnny 5, or should I choose to distrust this new movie proposal because they obviously don't know what they really want to do yet? Choices, choices.
*shrug*
I'll wait for the trailers to come out, if the movie gets that far. Then I'll judge.
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By tinmiss at 12:57 AM ON 06/05/09
Anybody get a sense of deja vu when watching Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines? I mean the T-1's look exactly like (well almost like) Johnny-5. Does anybody else see this?
By ArlanKnows at 3:31 PM ON 07/23/09
They have been making remakes since the early 70s on almost all the movies from the 40s, where have you been???
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