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By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (30)

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Another day, another remake. This one: A second remake of the classic 1960 Roger Corman flick, Little Shop of Horrors. Bloody Disgusting is reporting that Declan O’Brien — who directed the forthcoming straight-to-DVD sequel, Wrong Turn 3 — has signed on to direct the remake. He says:

Actually its been a busy time for me. I just optioned Roger Corman’s ‘The Little Shop of Horror’, which I’m setting up as a big studio remake,” he tells B-D this morning. “We’re in the process of talking to studios this week. It will be a remake of Roger’s original 1960’s movie. I don’t want to reveal too much, but it’s me, it’ll be dark,” he explains. “It wont be a musical.”

Bummer. The musical aspects of Frank Oz’s 1986 remake we’re really its only redeeming features. Without it, it’s just a silly man-eating plant movie. And without Rick Moranis and Steve Martin, I don’t see how it works. It hardly seems like a remake worth doing, and if you have to do it, you’d imagine you could find someone better than the straight-to-DVD director of Rock Monster and Monster Ark.

Whatever.

But, speaking of remakes (I’m just going to shoe-horn this one in here), did anyone catch last night’s episode of “Scrubs.” Not one of the best (the whiplash poignancy gave me a headache) but it did feature one of the coolest song remakes in the history of mankind. Give it up, y’all. Ted sings “Hey-Ya!”

Brilliant.











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Comments

*Clap-clap-clap!*

That was sweet.

Posted by: admin at April 16, 2009 11:16 AM

*sniff*
That was awesome.

Posted by: Janey at April 16, 2009 11:18 AM

Scrubs makes me cry more than it makes me laugh now. Especially when JD said he loved Elliott more than Turk!

Posted by: blacksred at April 16, 2009 11:19 AM

Er... By no means did I mean to sort of copy the above comment. I didn't refresh before I commented, HONEST!!!!!

Posted by: Janey at April 16, 2009 11:19 AM

ahh i enjoyed yesterday's scrubs episode... i think all the jokes were in the other half of this story but there were less flashbacks in this than usual (if any?). I felt it worked allright like all the episodes this season, not perfect but perfectly watchable and better than the past few seasons.

stil the scrubs women do look nice in bikinis and congratulations to the janitor on getting married. She is a very nice girl/lady.

Posted by: jim of the lower case at April 16, 2009 11:24 AM

That song was surprisingly great... had to rewind the episode and listen to it again. Thanks, DVR!

Posted by: redherring at April 16, 2009 11:28 AM

I'm gonna get a candy bar, I'm gonna get a candy bar!

How could you forget Bill Murray? He STOLE that movie.

Posted by: Abe Froman at April 16, 2009 11:30 AM

scrubs does make me sad more than laugh now they just seem to be more poignant as the characters grow older and less able to bring the effortless funny. liked the episode earlier this year where they were discussing death one night with a character all episode. oh and the sesame street episode. at least this season theyve had a more realistic and enjoyable JD rather than half the time where he isnt funny at all.

Bob Kelso is the unsung hero of the show. It got me when he was on his own at the bar and everyone had found someone. Poor old bugger with his muffins and drink. Hes turning into Freddy Rumsen.

Posted by: jim of the lower case at April 16, 2009 11:30 AM

Corman's Little Shop is fantastic. You have to accept the ridiculous budget and time constraints he had to face and go with it. The ending to Corman's is so much better than the stageplay and the movie musicals different endings. Talk about shock value. You're wading through a campy, over the top killer plant movie and then - BAM! Genuinely scary ending.

Posted by: Robert at April 16, 2009 11:31 AM

To me, Ted still remains the funniest character on that show. Seems that they used a very similar arrangement of Hey Ya that Mat Weddle of Obadiah Parker came up with a few years ago.

Posted by: branded at April 16, 2009 11:38 AM

Hes turning into Freddy Rumsen.

Should that worry me? I'm alone at the bar with my drink.

Posted by: Jay at April 16, 2009 11:39 AM

What a great cover.

And wasn't it cool to see Fonzi again on his skis jumping over that great big ...

Posted by: Duane at April 16, 2009 11:44 AM

No no no no no no no!!! This is one of my favorite movies of all time, and in my top three favorite musicals. NO. There is no Little Shop without Ellen Greene wailing her ass off in "Skid Row," without Rick Moranis' unassuming yet badass Seymour, or without Steve Martin punching a nurse. NO.

Abe Froman...I love that line :) "Oooooooh candy bar!!"

Posted by: Julie at April 16, 2009 11:44 AM

branded--I thought of the Mat Weddle version right away, too.

it’s just a silly man-eating plant movie

What's wrong with silly man-eating plant movies?

Posted by: frumpiefox at April 16, 2009 11:51 AM

nah lonely bar drinking is the opiate of the loner.
I was the only bloke in the pub the other night it was brilliant...

come to think of it Kelso is more a Bertram Cooper character than Freddy Rumsen, Ted and his friends can fight it out for the comic relief schlub character and Kelso and Cooper are the fierce eccentrics with the heart of gold.

drinking on your own is the James Bond of drinking if you drink with people your Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible... now order the Martini and wash away those dirty thetans.

Posted by: jim of the lower case at April 16, 2009 11:55 AM

I won't watch the clip, I want to wait till I can watch the whole episode at home.

Kelso might be my favorite character on Scrubs. Ken Jenkins has such brilliant comedic timing, and he can be so heartbreaking. The episode where he put the rich patient in the drug study over the poorer guy so he could reopen the prenatal services made me cry SO HARD. It was the look on Kelso's face when he steps into the parking lot, he just looks so defeated...such a great moment.

Posted by: Julie at April 16, 2009 11:59 AM

You... you mean I don't have to be a closet Scrubs fan here at Pajiba?

*cries a little*

Posted by: Codeman at April 16, 2009 12:03 PM

Bring it Codeman! There's lots of fans here :)

Posted by: Julie at April 16, 2009 12:21 PM

Seasons 1-4, come into the light. Anything past that stay your ass in the closet.

Little Shop was my one and only foray into musical theatre (admittedly in a non-singing role) and I will always have a soft spot for it. Although it was my first attempt at acting, I still feel that I blew Belushi's performance out of the water.

Posted by: WestCoastPat at April 16, 2009 12:23 PM

Oh my GOD, that song last night KILLED me. I sat there listening, thinking 'oh this is sweet', and then I started recognizing the lyrics and I went CRAZY. It was glorious!

Posted by: figgy at April 16, 2009 12:42 PM

WestCoastPat, I think a monkey with Alzheimers could blow Jim Belushi out of the water these days.

Posted by: Jim Doggie at April 16, 2009 12:56 PM

Coming from someone who doesn't like musicals, I admit that the songs are the best part of LSoH.

Did anyone see the original ending to the movie, the one audiences said was too dark? Scared the hell out of me.

Posted by: Brie at April 16, 2009 1:01 PM

I stopped listing to the dialogue to listen to that song last night. I have no idea how they tied up the show. Hey Ya by Sam Lloyd was awesome indeed!

Posted by: SilverDeb at April 16, 2009 1:08 PM

WHY?!? Again, I would like to address Hollywood. STOP making remakes. Just stop. I'm tired of it. If it's a musical, they take the music away. If it's not, they add music (I'm looking at you, Hairspray).

Gah. Now I'm all violent stabby but I have to sit and pretend to pay attention to neurolinguistics.

Posted by: Sharon at April 16, 2009 1:29 PM

Goddamnit. they're gonna remake it again but they still won't release the original ending of the musical one? Why? Whyyyyyyyyyyy?

Posted by: s. pisaster at April 16, 2009 3:01 PM

I love when Ted sings , i was watching it with my fiance last night and it was fucking amazing .

Reason # 36,958 why i love Scrubs

Posted by: gilp at April 16, 2009 3:20 PM

I love Scrubs. I'm so glad ABC picked it up, it's much better this season than it has been in recent years.

Posted by: Kolby at April 16, 2009 4:08 PM

i did indeed catch it and in fact tweeted about it's friggin ' awesomeness.

Posted by: trippdup at April 17, 2009 1:56 AM

Damn. That's a cover of a remake. An exact to the note cover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-8nkkOA_AM&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div

That's the YouTube version, but the version you can buy on iTunes even has the same piano arrangement.

Posted by: Sally at April 17, 2009 2:06 PM

I just want to thank ABC for bringing this show back from the brink of suck.

It's not as great as it once was (perhaps it never will be again) but it's getting better.

I choose to pretend the Little Shop of Horrors re-remake is a rumour that will never become reality.

There's only one Audrey 2 - I don't care how much CGI the Monster Monster guy throws at it.

Posted by: Bane at April 17, 2009 11:08 PM