{"id":438,"date":"2008-04-18T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=438"},"modified":"2012-11-14T14:42:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T18:42:41","slug":"incredible-shrinking-man-remake-gets-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/18\/incredible-shrinking-man-remake-gets-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN Remake Gets Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if the idea of comedic remake of the 1957 sci-fi classic <strong>The Incredible Shrinking Man<\/strong> starring Eddie Murphy sounded bad enough, the project takes a turn for the even worse as the <em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em> states that Brett Ratner is currently in talks to direct the film.<\/p>\n<p>The script is by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, two members of The State comedy troupe who are also the creative force behind Comedy Central&#8217;s raunchy reality TV spoof <em>Reno 911<\/em>. Unfortunately, they are also the screenwriters behind the more family-friendly <strong>Herbie: Full Loaded<\/strong>, <strong>Taxi<\/strong><em> <\/em>and <strong>Night At The Museum<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While I know that earlier this week, I stated that a remake doesn&#8217;t have to be bad if the filmmakers find some new approach to the material. However, turning a smart and surprisingly philosophical film into a family comedy is not what I had in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">As if the idea of comedic remake of the 1957 sci-fi classic The Incredible Shrinking Man starring Eddie Murphy sounded bad enough, the project takes a turn for the even worse as the Hollywood Reporter <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/18\/incredible-shrinking-man-remake-gets-worse\/\" title=\"INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN Remake Gets Worse\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[22],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-in-development"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}