Cue up your pottery wheels and Righteous Brothers albums, of us: A remake of “Ghost” might quickly be making its option to the massive display screen, with Channing Tatum as its main man.
Talking to Self-importance Truthful for its February difficulty, Tatum revealed that his Free Affiliation manufacturing firm owns the rights to the 1990 romantic drama, which starred Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze.
The topic of “Ghost” fittingly got here up when journalist Jessica Pressler opted to interview Tatum ― who will subsequent be seen in “Magic Mike’s Final Dance,” due out Feb. 10 ― at a pottery studio in Brooklyn, New York.
“Now I do know why they put this in ‘Ghost.’This complete course of could be very, very sexual,” Tatum explains within the interview, earlier than including: “Yeah, now we have the rights to ‘Ghost.’”
After noting that he’d be enjoying the Swayze function, the actor alludes to updating the unique film’s script, which contained some problematic stereotypes.
“However we’re going to do one thing completely different,” he mentioned. “I feel it wants to alter slightly bit and have our…”
Pressler notes that Tatum shared no additional specifics, having grow to be preoccupied with the pottery wheel.
Swayze, who died in 2009, was sizzling off his “Soiled Dancing” success when he starred within the authentic “Ghost.” Directed by Jerry Zucker, the film follows Sam Wheat (Swayze) and Molly Jensen (Moore), a younger couple beginning their lives collectively in New York. Tragedy strikes as Wheat, an funding banker, is killed by a thief trying to steal his pockets.
After realizing he’s grow to be a ghost, Sam discovers that the mugging was not random and that Molly might be at risk. So he enlists a medium, Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg), to assist him save his girlfriend’s life.
By all accounts, “Ghost” was a smash, raking in a reported $505 million on the field workplace worldwide, whereas Goldberg acquired an Academy Award for her efficiency. The film is greatest remembered for its iconic (and much-parodied) love scene, by which Sam embraces Molly from behind as she sensually shapes clay to the tune of “Unchained Melody.”
Apparently, “Ghost” is just not the one remake of a Swayze property in growth. Final 12 months, it was confirmed that Jake Gyllenhaal had been forged in a reimagining of 1989’s “Highway Home,” by which Swayze performed a bar bouncer with a mysterious previous who helps save a small Missouri city from a corrupt businessman.
In the meantime, Swayze’s “Soiled Dancing” co-star Jennifer Gray has signed on to reprise her function as Frances “Child” Houseman in a sequel to that 1987 basic.
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