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Movies Zac Efron Remakes We’d Actually Pay to See

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For an in-demand tween dream, Zac Efron isn’t putting a high premium on originality. First, the High School Musical star films 17 Again, a return to the late great '80s comedy subgenre of multi-generational body switching, and now he’s signing on for a remake of the best Kevin Bacon musical dance-fest evar, Footloose.

Okay, Zac, fine; you want to make movies that have already been made. In that case, maybe you should consider reprising some of these other well-loved movie roles'roles that feature you dying in horrible, gruesome ways that we’d gladly fork over 10 bucks to watch. Read on to see what flicks (and specific scenes) we think he’d be perfect for…

October 28, 2008 | Permalink | Comment
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Movies 5 Book Adaptations That Shouldn’t Become Musicals

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Okay, so for some reason a company has bought the stage rights to American Psycho and is planning to turn it into an ’80s musical. And we’ll be frank: we don’t understand this AT ALL.

Sure, some movies have worked on Broadway–Legally Blond, Shrek, The Producers–but those are all broad comedies. We’re talking about a movie that was adapted from an actual, no-pictures, BOOK. Two severed thumbs down, American Psycho: The Musical. And in case any of you would-be impresarios are considering adapting other books-that-became-movies into musicals, take our advice and don’t do it. Especially not these five book/movies…

September 24, 2008 | Permalink | 3 Comments
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