The only thing I
know about the original Short Circuit is
it’s the origin of the name Johnny 5. Maybe I’ll learn more when it’s remade, a prospect about which there have been rumors for a while.
As reported by Deadline,
Short Circuit is getting a remake
courtesy of a collaboration between Spyglass Media Group and Project X
Entertainment. (The two companies are also working on the Scream remake.) The remake will be a family
film with a screenplay by the writing team of Eduardo Cisneros and Jason
Shuman. Cisneros has written Instructions Not
Included, and Shuman wrote Half Brothers.
According to Deadline, the two were hired to “put a Latinx twist on the
screenplay,” which presumably (?) means the film will be written through a
lens of Latinx cultural experiences for Latinx actors.
The original film, I
am told by people who were alive in the 1980s, was about an experimental
military robot that gains sentience from a lightning strike and stars opposite
Ally Sheedy, who was really in vogue in 1986. That movie was directed by John
Badham. No word yet on who will be directing the remake, or how faithful it
will be to the original. It’ll be produced by James Vanderbilt, Paul Neinstein,
and William Sherak from Project X Entertainment.
https://gizmodo.com/johnny-five-our-one-true-robot-hero-might-soon-be-an-1773601603
The new Short Circuit is in pre-production.
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