Thursday, June 28, 2007

Argh

Good mother-humping grief. From BD:

"Production company Vertigo Entertainment (The Invasion, The Strangers, Addicted,The Ring, The Grudge, The Echo) has inked a first-look television deal with Lionsgate to develop and produce scripted programming for broadcast and cable, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Vertigo will be making its first foray into scripted television with The Bates Motel, a re-imagining of Psycho that's being developed with Universal Media Studios."

I... I... sigh.

So it's a TV show they're talking about here, which... throws me off, actually. If it were a film remake, I'd... well, I wouldn't be posting right now, I'd be on my way to the airport and ordering mustard gas online. And yes, I am aware that Gus Van Sant already did a remake, but... well, I don't think about that. Except sometimes when I remember that Vince Vaughn was once really cute and Viggo took his pants off:


But otherwise, no.

But a TV show... I don't know. I don't know what to think. Twin Peaks comes to mind - if they went that route, something really weird for television, then maybe. Or, alternately, it could be like Friday the 13th: The Series... a show I watched religiously as a teen but is hardly the dustbin-of-history anything associated with Pyscho deserves to be tossed into.
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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Links don't work.

Anyway, is this, like, The LoveBoat or something where a parade of guest stars check in but they don't check out? Watch out Rosie O'Donnel and Debra Messing!

Jason Adams said...

Which ones aren't working for you? They work okay for me. Hmm.

I really can't fathom how it'd work as a show. But if it involved Rosie O'Donnell in the shower I would most certainly not be watching it.

Anonymous said...

Vince Vaughn is forbidden and Viggo brings up a massage to not hotlink.

I suppose either of them could check into the hotel for some shower time, but then they would have to die gruesomely.

Jason Adams said...

K, so I added the pics to the post to get round that then.

Either of them could die gruesomely for reals and I'd not really mind; there wouldn't even have to be a camera around to catch it!

Anonymous said...

ah...that's the ticket

Anonymous said...

There already was a Bates Motel TV Show (or, at least, a pilot) starring Bud Cort as an asylum inmate who inherits the motel after Norman dies.

If I remember correctly, the first episode was about a ghost cheerleader.