This 7,328th installment of Unnecessary Remake News comes to you courtesy of the Hollywood Reporter:
Tony Bill's "My Bodyguard" is next up for the remake treatment. The re-do of the 1980 film, which starred Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin and Matt Dillon, is being set up at Dimension Films. Jeff Lieber is penning the script about a boy who enlists his new school's most feared kid when he finds himself being bullied.
Even though the concept of hiring a goon to challenge the school bully was briefly revisited in the equally noteworthy Three O'Clock High (and Richard Tyson was infinitely more intimidating that Chachi Matt Dillon), the concept's a little outdated. Post-Columbine, it seems hard to believe bullies would risk going after the twitchy, disaffected kids anymore.
Unless the bullies are better armed, that is.
As a twitchy, disaffected kid myself, I really liked My Bodyguard (even though I was pretty sure even I could've handled Screech Matt Dillon). I am against the idea of a remake, but that's hardly news, and won't keep Hollywood from doing what they like. I still have fond memories of the original, which is all that really matters.
Besides, who would've guessed quiet Ricky Linderman would grow up to be this friendly character?
In keeping with Hollywood's current discomfort that isn't a comedy (Starsky and Hutch, ferinstance) or a CGI Action flick orgy, this will probably star Will Farrel as the bodyguard and Ben Stiller as the kid.
Wasn't there a scene in the movie where in which the main chaacter was asked to feel the underside of his school desk? I don't know about you, but that scene gives me the willies to this day. The Horror!