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Pamela Anderson may return in Baywatch redux

Twenty years after it first left a tide-mark on America’s screens, Paramount have announced plans to produce a big-screen remake of that waterlogged soap known as ‘Baywatch.’

When NBC debuted the show in September ‘98 the public reaction was so universally bad, it was canceled after only one season. But like all monsters, it came back to life and did ten more years in worldwide syndication, airing in a record 148 separate countries.

This time the plot is quite new.

Paramount paid seven-figures [!?!] for the rights in 2005 and wanted a serious remake. But all that is gone. Their new plan was to hire 33-year old writer / director Jeremy Garelick [who has never seen the show] to redo the script, direct the movie and make Baywatch his own. “It felt like the template to do a movie similar to ‘Stripes’ and ‘Police Academy,’ the comedies I loved growing up,” Garelick told the Variety bods

The result is a script in which two unlikely lifeguards try to fit in among the lightly-tanned torsos on an as-yet unchosen California beach. The suits at Paramount loved the new plan – and now Baywatch as slapstick is in pre-production.

To give you a clue how bad this thing was, the original series, best known for the debut of Pamela Anderson, whose impossible figure had women worldwide scouring liporexall reviews, holds an unenviable record as the longest-running show in US-network history to never win a single Emmy.

None of the show’s cast will star in the movie, but David Hasselhoff and Pamela may make cameo nods.

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Pamela Anderson may return in Baywatch redux

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