Should The Rocky Horror Picture Show be remade as a two-hour television movie?  Most fans of the original film reacted negatively when MTV announced plans to do just that. There’s even a petition online for people who object to the remake to sign. And two stars of the 1975 version have expressed their opinions as indicated below.     

"I'm sort of shocked," Barry Bostwick told the folks at Creators.com, “I don’t think you should remake The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It’s of its time. It’s brilliant for what it was. To make it specifically for MTV or television, it loses its energy, its audience participation.  I think there’s something about the morals of it that are a bit of old-fashioned now. It was a bit salacious for the time but when you look back on it, it’s pretty tame. You’d have to keep it as a period piece, but then why? It’s already been done. If you can’t update it, then you’d have to turn it into something really different. I don’t know how they’d do it. Maybe they can come up with something.”

Despite his concerns, Barry says he’s willing to help – he’d like to be the narrator.

Susan Sarandon is also less than enthusiastic about the remake. According to IMDB, Sarandon remarked that she doesn’t understand what they would do to make it more charming or interesting. She thinks people could sing better than she sang, so that might be something that could change, but part of the charm of it, was that “it was done sort of low budget -- so unless it’s done huge and very different,” she doesn’t know the point of remaking it.

Casting Tim Curry’s FrankNFurter role might be the key to the remake’s success. Here are some of the people rumored to be under consideration: shock rocker Marilyn Manson, British comedian Richard Brand (from Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Johnny Depp (be still my heart) and Tony-winner Alan Cumming. But Curry would be a very tough act to follow.

On Tuesday, October 14 at 4 p.m. Eastern Time, Movie Addict Headquarters will revisit The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Actor Barry Bostwick’s previous interview about that 1975 cult classic will be replayed with a new Live Chat plus an additional segment focusing on plans to remake this outrageous and bizarre horror/musical.

We would love to hear what you think about a television remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. You can share your reactions by participating in the new Live Chat scheduled during our Rocky Horror Revisted show. 

Please join us for this fun BlogTalkRadio event. Listen to the show by clicking here on or after October 14.

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