All-women movie remakes? No thanks!
Despite the lack of box office enthusiasm for sony’s all-girl remake of Ghostbusters, Warner Bros are pushing ahead with their girls-only remake of Ocean’s eleven.
Already signed up for the she-heist film are sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Rihanna, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter. Do you know what? i think i’m washing my hair that night.
What next in this fem craze for womenonly reworkings? Lady Of the Rings, Hogan’s Heroines, Reservoir Bitches?
And it’s not just on the big screen where remakes are ruling the day. the BBC is making a reboot of Are You Being served? which is coming back to our tV screens shortly. Not all-girl, thank heavens, though it is still hard to see quite how the department store drama will translate to the modern world.
For authenticity’s sake, it should be a branch of BHs with Captain peacock worrying about his pension, the canteen closed for budgetary reasons and Mr Mash the maintenance man laid off years ago.
And what are they going to do about Mrs slocombe’s pussy? in the original series, the mauve-haired lingerie sales manageress (played by Mollie sugden) was involved in a running gag about her pet cat, always delivered straight-faced.
‘if i am not at home on the stroke of six, my pussy goes mad,’ she would say and — damn our lack of political correctness — we would all fall about laughing. the unseen moggy got locked out, it had to be thawed in front of the fire and when the central heating broke down, Mrs slocombe had to ‘light the oven and hold my pussy in front’.
to be honest, it still makes me guffaw — but i doubt this poor pussy will escape the censor’s attentions.