Short Circuit

[6souls]

Tim Hill has signed on to direct a reboot of Short Circuit for Dimension Films. Deadline reports that Hill is finalizing a deal to reboot the 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."

The original 1986 film starred Steve Guttenburg and Ally Sheedy. Hill is known for directing films like Hop and Fox's Alvin and the Chipmunks. The script was first drafted by Steve Carr (Paul Blart: Mall Cop) and screenwriter Dan Milano. That was back in 2009, but Hill is being brought in to oversee a fresh take on the script. David Foster, who produced the original, is producing with Ryan E. Heppe and John Hyde.

http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/8/4/...dimension.html
http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/dire...ircuit-reboot/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929281/

[Iono]

Johny 5 is still alive? -.-a

[Seanr]

they're going to fuck up my childhood.. I just watched short circuit 1 & 2 a few days ago

[brozy]

they're going to fuck up my childhood..

pretty much sums it up...is nothing sacred from reboot these days :'(

[Katlan]

they're going to fuck up my childhood..

yep

[Callisto]

god fucking dammit I went to use this as a sarcastic joke of things Hollywood would reboot, thinking 'nah, they wouldn't really do that' just last night

[Melena]

/wrist Why hollywood, why? For fucks sake, come up with an original idea instead of beating our childhoods like a proverbial dead horse for money

[Seanr]

well its been announced for quite awhile... but still it sucks

[Laugana]

God dammit, sorry to repeat everyone already, but my first thought was for fuck's sake - why do they keep doing this?!

[Seanr]

You know what the issue is with hollywood? They're honestly not interested in new franchises unless your a well known producer/screenwriter.
Most new scripts are rejected, if they like your work though they'll give you a set of established ideas to choose from or some shit like that to work on, i wish I could find the fuckin article where i found that at.

[Pharaun]

donotwant.jpg The original was a classic, you don't fuck with the classics...

[Dimmauk]

When will we get Goonies, Splash, Dark Crystal and He-man?

[Khajit]

All these motherfucking reboots and the original Reboot reboot hasn't been finished yet.(as in the one with bob Enzo, megabyte etc.)

[Guyverarmor]

Well what sucks though is that the guy who voiced Megabyte has died http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Jay

[Rocl]

oh god why nooooo

[Kaslo]

[kuronosan]

Short Circuit: 3D. Interview with the director:

Jackass: Well we took Johnny 5 and we decided that he needed some weapons and a more "Iron Man meets R2" motif. We're also changing his name from Johnny 5 to JOHNNIE5, which of course stands for "Joint Operations Hydro-Nuclear Near-Indestructible Entity: Mark 5". His whole essence is discovering who he was programmed to be and this journey, no - this destiny - is his exploration of that name and coming to terms with his primary function.

Reporter: What about his creator's role in this? Will we hear the infamous "Johnny Five is alive" in the movie?

Jackass: We've actually replaced the Indian character with an Asian, because they're better with computers. We think it adds a lot of diversity. J5 will also be voiced by Samuel L. Jackson. He has a girlfriend.

Reporter: A girlfriend robot?

Jackass: Yes. It will be voiced by Katy Perry.

Stop fucking rebooting shit.

[Seanr]

please... please please please tell me you just made all of that up.

SO FUCKING MUCH WRONG WITHIN JUST ONE FUCKIN PARAGRAPH

[Rocl]

man i loved that indian guy.

i've said it before and i'll say it again: short circuit was the best film of the 20th century

[kuronosan]

please... please please please tell me you just made all of that up.

SO FUCKING MUCH WRONG WITHIN JUST ONE FUCKIN PARAGRAPH

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