Want to watch a feature-length, fan-made remake of Footloose? While I admit that my initial answer to this question would normally be a resounding “no, thanks,” even a hater like myself had to admit that this was a cool idea. It seems some amateur filmmakers were so upset about the prospect of a Hollywood Footloose remake that they decided to take things into their own hands. Yes, precisely, just like I do with my wang.
We’ve all spent lots of time atop our film-loving high horses bemoaning the Hollywood studios’ tendency to take our favourite classic films, change the script, add some 17-year-old Disney stars to the cast and release them as summer blockbusters year after year. When was the last time we thought to do anything about it, though?
Upon hearing that the 1984 classic Footloose was being remade by Hustle and Flow director Craig Brewer [after tiny dog enthusiast Kenny Ortega dropped out] for a 2010 release [first with Hollywood twink Zac Efron, later with Hollywood super twink Chace Crawford], David Seger and Tim Marklevitz—two film-savvy pals from Los Angeles—decided to rally together 58 of their film-making friends to re-create the 54 scenes from the film for The Footloose Remake.
“We were fed up,” they say of their motivation behind the project, “The Hollywood remake machine was going to take another solid movie, put it through the ringer, and make a buck from a younger generation. We decided “Let’s beat them to the punch. Let’s do this remake our way.”…Originally slated to release in June 2010, director complications have pushed the release of The New Studio Remake Footloose back to 2011. Hollywood can’t make it by 2010? We can. Our fifty-four filmmaker The Footloose Remake will hit Los Angeles in June, taking the place of Paramount’s release. Let’s undermine the Hollywood remake machine.” [source]
(*looks up from filling Molotov cocktails*) Undermine Hollywood how now? Oh. Well I guess that’s a good idea too… Anyway, you can watch the film after the jump. As I said, it’s a pretty cool idea. But I confess I do prefer my “amateur” films with more… scissoring.
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Just like how when I get pissed off at the Dallas Cowboys line for sucking, I go and cut block the shit out of my neighbor’s kid. He’s a crybaby anyway.
When asked for comment, Patrick Swayze grunted and continued trying to push a penny off of his end table.
Just like breakfast, it sucks without Bacon.
I wonder how 54 hipsters would feel if I told them Be Kind Rewind did it first.
Fuckin’ John Malkovich blastin’ the Seger in Hollywood atop moaning, high whores!?! WOOO THAT’S HARD NEWS MANCINI! THIS BLOG ROCKS
Yea! Suck it, Hollywood!
Wait… Actually can you help us with our film careers? No? Ok guys! I guess we can all go back to making short films that begin with the main character slapping their alarm clocks, waking up, brushing their teeth in front of the mirror while (insert hipster band) plays gently behind a solemn monologue. That’s what film school is all about right? Getting to know your character intimately?? Somebody get me a cigarette and flannel shirt, already.
I think Vince missed a chance to start a “Full Movie” tag with this post. Because how many times can FD cover a movie and BOOM post the whole frickin’ thing right there?
I’ve never made a comment here before but I just didn’t want Vince to miss out on what is probably the most significant scene in this movie. At about the 25 minute mark, there is a moment of dry scissoring as a shirtless Chuck is played by a girl whose boobs are covered by what looks like taped nude fabric. How did I find this you ask? Why, I have nothing better to do at 4:30 am than to watch a remake of a movie made as a rebuttal to a remake of a movie.
*returns to said movie*
Most of these guys are from Channel101.com, which is pretty cool.
SC5 was pretty awesome at the 7:30 mark – the porch scene redone as an acid trip.
I’d like to mashup this work with Hobo With A Shotgun. However, since my video editing skills are amateurish at best, I’m sending a hobo with a shotgun directly to each filmmaker.
Super Twink is the new Super Freak.
“decided to rally together 58 of their film-making friends”
You wouldn’t think a guy that liked Footloose would have so many friends. Are you sure there isn’t supposed to be a decimal somewhere in that number?
I have a shiny Sacagawea Dollar that says the first email Seger and Marklevitz sent out to their filmmaker friends had the subject line “Everybody cut, everybody cut! Everybody! Everybody cut Footloose!”