B.S. Watch: ‘Saturday Night’ Efron!
The Rumor: American Idol creep Simon Cowell is remaking Saturday Night Fever starring Zac Efron with music “reworked” by Timbaland.
Why it could be true: Why not? Liam Neeson might be in a goddamn A-Team movie for chrissakes. Anything is possible.
Why it’s probably not: The source is The Sun. One of their cover stories is about the search for alien intelligence…on Earth. Plus, the actual column only says Cowell has been talking to the film’s original producer Robert Stigwood. Anything could happen, but nothing has. This makes for a less newsy headline though.
Do we care? Not really. At first I was prepared to be outraged, but let’s be serious for a minute. The original was just a vehicle for Bee Gees music starring Vinnie Barbarino from Welcome Back Kotter and that turned out ok, didn’t it?
The Verdict: Other than the dubious source, there’s no reason why it couldn’t come true, but it’s a long way from that point – especially the part about Efron. That’s still wishful thinking (I mean for Efron fans) even if the rest of this is true.
Will we see it? Not a chance in hell.
Source: The Sun
Filed under: Rumors
Tags: Simon Cowell, Zac Efron
I think the original Saturday Night Fever is better than “BEE GEES meets Barbarino” would lead one to believe. Travolta used to have a natural intensity that served this picture well, and the film has an appealingly rough quality – it captures that seemingly hopeless turmoil of just exiting youth that many more blatant pictures miss. The ending, where the couple finally dances, is authentically moving. Its silly, but its sincere, and Travolta is terrific.
My point wasn’t meant to sound anti-SNF, but that the dubious beginnings led to a decent and successful movie.
In other words, Cowell + Efron could actually = a movie that doesn’t suck. Highly unlikely, but not unprecedented.
ok, I reworded that part a little for clarity.
Also speaking of Travolta as a side note, I wandered over to Hollywood-Elsewhere last night investigating the slight of a friend (purely for research purposes, I swear): A) Wells really loved the Scott/Travolta/Washington Pelham remake and B) absolutely nothing has changed over there. He’s still making the same BS arguments with the same BS attitude and the same people are either jacking him off or kicking him in the balls.
It literally left me feeling down and bad about the world.
oh please no… i can see the cheesy travolta cameo now.
I liked it better when the wording was more anti-SNF.
“Cowell + Efron could actually = a movie that doesn’t suck” because Efron > Travolta.
Potentially. Or at least in the midst of sucking, Zac is prettier.
Put yourself back 30+ years though. Travolta was everyone’s favorite pretty boy. Total Tiger Beat material. Do they still have Tiger Beat? If they did, Zac Efron would be in it all the time.
“Cowell + Efron could actually = a movie that doesn’t suck” because Efron > Travolta.
From what I’ve seen, Zac Efron hasn’t remotely suggested that he’s in the league of the performances Travolta gave in Carrie, Blow Out (his best), Saturday Night Fever, and later, in Pulp Fiction.
Was Travolta that much less furry 30 years ago?
I think Tiger Beat is still around. But it’s called Twinks now.
well, I said “potentially” Chuck. Plus, not taking the arithmatic too seriously. Have you seen Me & Orson Wells? Me neither, but I read Efron was quite good.
In both Carrie and Blow Out Travolta was too gulpy and wide-eyed for me.
Twinks: formerly known as Tiger Beat Off?
ha! exactly.
“Zac Efron hasn’t remotely suggested that he’s in the league of the performances Travolta gave in Carrie, Blow Out”
Again, going back 30+ years, was Travolta really taken that seriously by the establishment at the time? Plus, Blow Out came after SNF.
Oh wait, you’re not arguing with me.