The Loquacious Limey

Why all the ‘recycling’ stories are always from Fox is a very strange query – but here’s yet another: The suits in charge of ruining running Fox TV are now preparing a TV-reworking of the High School-angst movie, Heathers.

First released in March of 1989 by Columbia Pictures the ‘crime-drama-romance,’ to quote its PR, gave Christian Slater and Winona Ryder their major film breaks. Now, twenty years of cobwebs have been blown off the story, and Fox’s finest brains [yes, both of them] are hard at work on a reboot.

“We had the title, and talked about doing a film remake,” Gary Lucchesi, president of Lakeshore, who own the film’s rights told Variety. “But doing it for TV seemed like a fresh and original idea.”

The fresh and original movie told the rather curious story of Veronica, who really wants to be part of the “in crowd” at her school. But the girls who are part of this exclusive clique – who are all strangely named Heather – snub her and make her feel cheap. Then the High School’s head hunk, J.D. [Slater] shows her a neat way to climb the School’s social ladder – Together, they kill all the Heathers.

While recycled TV is never truly successful, one upbeat note is that among the Producers is Jenny Bicks, whose credits include ‘Sex and the City’ and ‘Men in Trees.’ So the pedigree seems pretty good.

But let’s face the facts; Most TV execs wouldn’t know an original idea if it gave them its card; Second, ‘fresh and original’ ideas don’t mean just remaking a film. And making a TV show from a movie is not original anyway – have these chowder-heads not heard of ‘MASH’ ??

No date is available for the new show’s debut as the scripts and casting have yet to be done. There is no mention of Slater or Ryder as part of the cast, but that may well change as production goes on. Then, maybe, people will watch…

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