Like a feverish coma nightmare, Drop Dead Fred is one of those bizarre and crappy late 80s/early 90s films that I’d all but repressed the memory of. Until today, when Universal announced it’s going to remake it with Russell Brand.
The 1991 original starred Phoebe Cates as a wallflower who loses her job and husband during the course of a lunch hour. Forced to live back home, she’s reunited with her childhood imaginary friend (Brit actor Rik Mayall), who promises to help but causes more havoc. The first “Fred” was critically drubbed and commercially unsuccessful. But it did achieve a certain cult status and is considered a film that fell short of its full potential. [THR]
EXEC 1: So we’ve got Russell Brand under contract. We need to find him a project.
EXEC 2: Who’s Russell Brand?
EXEC 1: He’s that annoying British guy with stupid hair.
EXEC 2: Hmm… You know, Drop Dead Fred was about an annoying British guy with stupid hair.
EXEC 1: Drop Dead Fred? That has to be the worst idea I’ve ev- oh hey, it’s lunch time.
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Remember when Phoebe Cates flashed her boobs at us and she was all hot and stuff, but then she married her dad Kevin Kline?
Remakes suck.
At least I got a nice The Young Ones flashback out of that. And the LSD I did back in the 80′s.
Russell Brand’s Comedy Central special was awesome, because it’s always hilarious when a guy spends an hour explaining jokes he told at a different venue.
Drop Dead Fred is not to be confused with the reaction Senator Thompson received when entering the Republican primaries.
*fingers Ann Coulter blowup doll*
….first Bea Arthur…now this.
If Russell Brand wanted to act in front of a child’s Fisher Price plastic camera I’d say it was a bad idea.
Russell Brand is playing the Phoebe Cates role, right?
maybe this’ll be a snuff film… I’d watch it just to see Russel Brand die
This movie inspired me to create my own imaginary friend, Necrophilia Nancy.
Burnsy, all you need for that is a shovel and the cover of darkness
I pray that “spooge face” is the new “snot face”.
*does the sign of the cross and mouths ‘amen’*
So they traded a prick for a pRick?
I actually liked this movie, I haven’t seen it in a long time though so maybe I’d think differently if I had. Any way this will suck if Brand just tries to be Rik mayall. No one is Rik Mayall and no one can be.
Instead of the Mega Bitch’s crotch, the cobwebs are on top of Russell Brand’s head.
It’ll be just like Mr. Bean’s Holiday…if Mr. Bean had five sexually transmitted diseases and was addicted to Quaaludes…and was into auto-erotic asphyxiation…and suffered from Scabies…was a cocaine mule.
I liked Drop Dead Fred. No one remembers Carrie Fisher and her nearly soberness in it but me. Sadly, there is the fact that if they follow the last one the poor female lead will have to kiss Brand. Which means an STD waiver will have to be signed.
At the least this would give us the opportunity to seal Russell Brand in a Jack in the Box for all of eternity.
Yeah, I misread that as “Right Said Fred Remake”. Worse, I wanted to see it. I’ll….be moving along.