Kyle Newman has signed on to direct "Revenge of the Nerds," a remake of the seminal 1984 teen comedy.
The project is being developed by Fox Atomic, the new young-adult genre division of Fox Filmed Entertainment. The studio is eyeing a summer start date.
"Young-adult genre division?" What better excuse to turn the previously R-rated Nerds into family friendly PG-13 entertainment?
On one hand, we have the internet now, with its attendant message boards and fanfic devoted to everything from Space: Above and Beyond to Quantum Leap slash. Given how much geek/nerd culture has seeped into the popular consisciousness (Angelina Jolie played a hacker, for crying out loud, and that was back in 1995), the subject is bound to be a little less fresh than when my dad put tape on his glasses and donned a pocket protector to buy us stickets to the first Nerds movie.
And that Columbine thing kinda put the exclamation point on the whole "misfits vs. jocks" angle.
On the other, never has a Presidential administration so resembled a leering collection of high school bullies, especially considering their zealous crusade to roll back hundreds of years of scientific progress. In an important sense, nerds have never been as disenfranchised as they are right now.
Whatever. There better be a Donald "Ogre" Gibb cameo.
Is nothing sacred?
Hollywood is officially dead. There is no creativity left... can they please stop ripping off old movies and start coming up with original entertainment?!
Stuff that I haven't had the time or energy to write about lately but figured I should at least mention:......
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You must be hallucinating--your dad would never have done anything so, er, "nerdy".