I want to take this as an opportunity to tell the internets something. Internet: calm down. There’s a story on the Hollywood Reporter which says that Jay Roach is directing a comedy about a two party boy best friends. One dies, the other grieves, and then meets a stranger who looks exactly like his dead friend only shorter and nerdier. Here’s where everyone seems to have lost their minds. In their description of the film, HR says “He then sets out to corrupt him and refashion him (a la "Vertigo") into his lost buddy.”
Somehow, the internet has gotten together and taken this to mean that Roach is remaking a classic Hitchcock movie as a wacky, screwball comedy. That’s not the case. This is simply a comedy that has a lot in common with Vertigo. Let’s take a step back folks, and try not to stretch the meaning of the word “remake” beyond all possible reason. Save your anger and disappointment for an actual Hitchcock remake/ruination, of which there are always several in varying stages of pre-production.
The movie doesn’t seem to have a title yet, but Ken Kaufman came up with the idea and is the guy writing it. Before this, he wrote the Pauly Shore comedy In The Army Now, the worst Muppet movie Muppets From Space, and the pretty cool old fogies make good movie Space Cowboys. I have no idea what that means for this project, but Jay Roach usually knows what he’s doing when it comes to broad comedies.
