{"id":2003,"date":"2008-12-04T13:40:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T17:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2012-10-22T22:22:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T02:22:44","slug":"remaking-the-80s-part-1-arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/04\/remaking-the-80s-part-1-arthur\/","title":{"rendered":"Remaking The 80s, Part 1: ARTHUR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>British comic Russell Brand is looking to star in a remake of the 1981 Dudley Moore comedy Arthur<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> states that Brand is currently seeking out a writer to draft a screenplay for a new version of the tale of a drunken playboy who finds love with a working class woman much to the disapproval of the rest of high society.<\/p>\n

The title role of a drunken aristocrat certainly plays into Brand\u2019s own bad boy image. Though not well known on this side of the Atlantic, Brand has made a name for himself in England for his outrageous antics. This past summer he may have went a bit too far when Brand and talk show host Jonathan Ross placed a series of prank calls to Fawlty Towers<\/em> star Andrew Sachs, leaving obscene messages on Sach\u2019s answering machine about his granddaughter, whom Brandt had been involved with for a time.<\/p>\n

No director has signed on to the project yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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