'Valley Girl' Redux Set: Will Be A Musical

hollywoodreporter.com:

"Shrek: The Musical" director Jason Moore has signed to helm MGM's re-imagining of "Valley Girl" as a musical feature. Amy Talkington's updated screenplay spurred studio head Mary Parent and the first-time filmmaker to move on it quickly.

Idealogy's Sean Bailey and Matt Smith, who are producing, pitched MGM last summer on their fresh approach to revamping the 1983 cult comedy, which starred Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman in a romance that bridged the '80s punk scene and suburban San Fernando Valley culture. MGM exec Becky Sloviter is shepherding the project for the studio.

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Comments

[happycat]

04:45 PM on 06/03/2009

The movie was fun and cute and all, but come on, leave it alone. I have been saying this forever now, that NOBODY in the entertainment industry has an original idea anymore.

[typhanie]

04:29 PM on 06/03/2009

I agree, stop messing with the classics.

[DocInVA]

03:34 PM on 06/03/2009

NOOOOOOOO!

That movie meant so much to me growing up in the 80s. And still, whenever I hear The Plimsouls' sing "Million Miles" I get a pang in my chest. Sigh.

[jesselee26]

01:12 PM on 06/03/2009

why do they keep ruining old things? can't they just create something terrible and NEW? is that too much to ask?