Director Tim Hill Hops To Dimension's 'Short Circuit' Reboot
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EXCLUSIVE: Dimension Films is making a deal with Tim Hill to direct its reboot ofShort Circuit, the 1986 film about an experimental robot manufactured to be a weapon until a lightning strike fills it with intelligence. It runs away and befriends a fractured family, the military in hot pursuit. Hill directed the Illumination picHop and Fox’s Alvin and the Chipmunks. Dimension optioned the remake rights in 2009, originally signingPaul Blart: Mall Cophelmer Steve Carr and screenwriter Dan Milano. The project has languished and Hill is being brought in to supervise a new script and get the iconic robot Johnny 5 moving. David Foster, who produced the original, is producing with Ryan E. Heppe and John Hyde. Hill is repped by Gersh and Principato-Young.
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I can’t believe all the complainers about reboots. You’re all acting like a reboot has any effect on the original. If you like an older movie, it will still be there, unaltered, I promise. And as for originality, just how many new movies do you think come out every year? People live to complain. Can’t wait to see this, hope it’s great. If not, I’ll watch the original again sometime anyway right before the world doesn’t end.
- Tom elders
Writers who can’t get their original scripts through. Get in touch with ycombinator and help them fix Hollywood. That’s the challenge they have set themselves, and they’ll need your help to do it.
- Sam
a remake of a sub-par movie, made by the same mind that made Hop and Alvin, two other sub-par movies.
nothing about this will be noteworthy, except maybe how bad it is. - heizen burg
please stop complaining about remakes some are not great but without them we wouldnt have great movies like, the fly,the blob,house of wax,the thing,dracula, dawn of the dead.im all for original ideas but they have all been done before,and im welcome to old ideas seen through new light
- Rubberpoultry
No disassemble another 80’s movie!
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