The Rocky Horror Picture Show (2016 film)

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Written by Richard O'Brien
Jim Sharman
Directed by Kenny Ortega
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Music by Richard Hartley
Richard O'Brien
Country of origin United States
Production
Producer(s) Lou Adler
Gail Berman
Kenny Ortega
Release
Original network Fox
External links
[{{#property:P856}} Website]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (also known as The Rocky Horror Picture Show Event) is an upcoming television film. It is a "reimagining"[1] of the 1975 film of the same name, directed by Kenny Ortega and using the original script written by Richard O'Brien and Jim Sharman. The film will star Laverne Cox, and will be broadcast on the Fox network around Halloween, 2016.[2][3][4]

Cast

Laverne Cox is set to portray Dr. Frank-N-Furter

Production

Plans for a remake at Fox date back to 2002, when a 2003 release date was under consideration to mark the 30-year anniversary of the play which spawned the film, a remake for which former Broadway producer Gail Berman would have been involved as co-producer. MTV had also planned a remake, set for 2008 and for which Berman was again tapped to produce, but those plans also fell through.[1]

On April 10, 2015, it was announced that Kenny Ortega, best known for directing the film Hocus Pocus, the High School Musical trilogy, and Michael Jackson's This Is It concert series, would direct the remake.[1] On October 21, 2015, Emmy Award nominee Laverne Cox, best known for her role as transgender prisoner Sophia Burset on Netflix's prison drama Orange Is the New Black, joined the cast to play Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the mad-scientist role originated by Tim Curry in the 1970s.[3][5] Lou Adler, who produced the original film, is also co-producing the remake, along with Gail Berman and Kenny Ortega; Ortega will choreograph the film in addition to directing and producing.[3] The creative team is planning "to stick faithfully to the text and the score of the original but greatly reimagine the story visually".[1]

Release

The film is scheduled to premiere on Fox in late-October 2016.[2][3]

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