Hollywood never has a shortage of bad ideas, but with news of two of them arriving in one day, we’re guessing the few people left with taste at the studios were probably intentionally locked in the bathroom while meetings for these projects took place. Pajiba’s The Hollywood Cog has revealed that 1985’s “Real Genius” and 1990’s “House Party” are being readied for the remake treatment. Hooray!
In case you were too young to remember, “Real Genius” is “about the youngest kid to be accepted into a program for geniuses who teams up with his roommates to develop a high-powered laser, which is stolen by the military and used as a weapon.” It was made during the height of the Cold War and was a satire of the era’s paranoia. However, given that the audience that we saw “Hot Tub Time Machine” with were pretty much non-responsive to the character of Blaine and his love of “Red Dawn” we’re not sure how exactly a remake is going to resonate. That said, with a second draft of a script now out to writers we’re sure it’ll change into your standard teen comedy. The only way you could make us interested in this is if you got Val Kilmer to reprise his role as a teenager.
So what does Brett Ratner do when he’s not busy repeatedly proving himself to be one of the worst directors in Hollywood? He’s watching shitty movie vehicles for novelty music acts and even worse, he’s turning them into contemporary vehicles. Under his appropriately named producing banner Rat Entertainment, the auteur is producing the remake of the Kid ‘N Play “comedy” “House Party.” The film, which actually sort of unbelievably spawned two sequels took the mainstream idea of hip hop popularized in “The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air” and made it even more ridiculous. This is such a bad idea, we don’t even have any suggestions on how to make this better. And we swear to god, if Chris Tucker comes near this thing we might just have aneurysm.