Drop Dead Fack!

It's hard enough to see perfectly well crafted movies being remade into something either shittier, or at times, interesting ways, but here's a remake I'm not really sure how to swallow. Drop Dead Fred is rumoured to be in the process of a remake! What!? Why!?

For those of you who aren't familiar with this film, it stars Phoebe Cates and a hyper-active Rik Mayall. Basically, it's about a woman who's marriage suddenly turns into a steaming pile of poop and she has to move in with her uptight cougar mother. As a result of these unfortunate events, the invisible friend of her childhood past is ressurected to help her deal with her life and leave a trail of dog shit in his wake.

The film is either known by some, or has never existed. This is partially due to poor marketting and an audience who didn't appreciate boog flicking and looking up women's skirts. Needless to say, I loved this movie, even though the film left me terrified of suddenly having a crazed invisible friend attacking me in my sleep. If I remember correctly my invisible friend had a dolphin coming out of his chest and the squealing from that thing was unbearable.

Anyways, the remake supposedly had Russel Brand as the invisible friend Fred but no word on Phoebe Cates character. The fate of the script has been left in the hands of Land Of the Lost's Dennis McNicholas, which Ain't It Cool News wrote on their site that it will have a "Beetlejuice vibe" to it.

The whole idea of my favourite childhood movie being absolutely massacred by Hollywood doesn't please me at all, nor does the idea of my dolphin-chested invisible friend being realized in my adulthood.