I just heard that there’s a remake in the works of BEDAZZLED, the 1967 British cult comedy featuring Dudley Moore and Peter Cook as a modern-day Everyman and Satan.
The new version is going to star Brendan Frasier in the role of the short-order cook with the crush on the waitress, and Elizabeth Hurley as The Devil, who offers seven wishes in return for his soul.
I think this is delightful news, even if it turns out to be a THE HAUNTING-sized disaster. For one reason, you can’t get the original BEDAZZLED on video in any way, shape, or form. For another, I’m curious to see how a sex-symbol like Frasier will handle the role of the pathetic loveless boob that Moore performed so well (for obvious reasons).
Both Frasier and Hurley have done pretty good comedy work already…Moore and Cook are a damn tough act to follow, though.
Any other BEDAZZLED fans out there in Teeming-Millions Land? What do YOU think of this project? What do you think of nuns on trampolines?
I actually saw that movie sometime last year, one of those classic Saturday afternoon-remote-control-in-hand, I-should-be-doing-anything-else kind of days. I think it was on one of those Ted Turnerish channels, I remember being fascinated by that movie in the same way I was eerily glued to the screen the first time I watched an entire evening/night’s worth of USA Up All Night programming.
I don’t think the Moore/Cook version can be improved upon. Not only that, but a remake now will look like a ripoff of “Dogma”. The whole idea was a lot fresher and cutting-edge-potentially-blasphemous back in the '60s than it could ever be now. I’ve a feeling they’ll go overboard with the special effects. The cheesy effects used in the original (ala “The Fly”) was part of the original’s charm.
Sorry to be a wet blanket, but I think a remake of “Bedazzled” is about as pointless as a remake of “Psycho”.
That movie is in the land of “Legend” for my parents! It was a movie they saw when they started dating. My mother was a catholic school girl never missed a sunday. Dad thought the movie was hilarious! Needless to say its kinda crazy that I’m even here!
I thought I was the only person in the world who knew that BEDAZZLED! even existed… I lovelovelove that movie!
My feeble mind is having trouble with the concept of a woman playing Satan. Unless the remake is going to feature a bi-sexual Margaret, I don’t really quite get how it could be done properly.