Kevin Hart threatens to redo SCROOGED

If you read Birth.Movies.Death. Long enough, you'll probably remember me as the guy who always says, "Remakes are not worth getting angry at." I say this because it's true – the remakes do not erase the originals, they often attract new viewers to old titles that they might not have. sought otherwise, and sometimes you get a very good one. Not often, notice, just now and then, just enough often so that we can never really delete the concept.

I will keep all this in mind, jaw furiously tight, transmitting to you the following:

Paramount and Kevin Hart have teamed up to develop a remake of flayed, the 1988 Christmas comedy starring Bill Murray and was directed by Richard Donner.

The update is envisioned as a potentially active vehicle for Hart, who will produce via his Hartbeat productions. A search for a writer to write the script is in progress. "

The Hollywood Reporter announces that Kevin Hart is developing a flayed redo for Paramount. That's … they …

Look, I'm just going to be level with you: I'm sitting here trying to give a positive twist to that and I'm just fail. flayed is a sacred work in my house, seen every year on Christmas Eve and celebrated alongside other classics Gremlins and It's a beautiful life. The thought of someone trying to redo flayed This had never really occurred to me, partly because even considering such a thing sounds like heresy, but also because it seemed extremely unlikely that anyone would do it. Another remake of A Christmas Carol? Sure. But More precisely a flayed remake? Horse feathers, I would have told you, there are barely twenty minutes.

Whatever it is, this one is still early enough in the process so that nothing is yet established: we do not know who the writer, who could direct it, or (if we have to believe that Hart does not look at him like that, a star vehicle for himself, which, I mean, come) who will be titling him. Good luck to anyone involved, I guess. Between Richard Donner, Bill Murray, O Michael Donoghue and Mitch Glazer, you have big ass shoes to fill.

Now, if you will excuse me …

Remakes do not erase the originals.

Remakes do not erase the originals.

Remakes do not