First Karate Kid, Now Arthur, I Apologize for Hollywood

Dear Readers,
I have failed you. As the most successful website to ever combine the words super, hella, and awesome in a URL, I have failed to reach the levels of Hollywood Insidery that I thought I would. It is with great sadness that I am forced to report to you, less than a month after the report on the tragic remake of The Karate Kid, that comedian Russel Brand is developing a remake of the Dudley Moore classic Arthur. Clearly it goes without saying that this is one of the worst ideas of all time. Dudley Moore is/was/will always be Arthur, which is why he managed to get that movie nominated for like five oscars, including a nomination for himself. Russell Brand definitely ain't no Dudley Moore. No way he can play me some Beethoven! I hate this story:

Brand is meeting with scribes to write the screenplay, which will be produced by MBST's Larry Brezner, whose credits range from "Good Morning, Vietnam" to HBO's recent "Little Britain USA."

The original movie followed a boozy playboy rascal who is set to inherit a fortune if he marries an heiress his family thinks will make something out of him. However, he falls in love with a working-class woman and turns to his valet for help when his family makes him choose between money and love.

Moore was nominated for an Oscar as was Steve Gordon, the film's writer-director. John Gielgud, who played the valet, won the best supporting actor Oscar, and the movie's theme song, "The Best That You Can Do," won for original song.

I think someone should start an anti-remake campaign, or at the very least a studio should take an anti-remake stance. This is getting out of control.

On a brighter note here is Dudley doing his thing with Goldie Hawn from the film Foul Play. Amazing scene.

"Do you have any binoculars?
"What's that? Binoculars? You into that too? Me as well, I read about it in Penthouse."

Awesome