The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again | |
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One of pre-release posters
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The Rocky Horror Show Live by Richard O'Brien (uncredited) The Rocky Horror Picture Show by Jim Sharman Richard O'Brien The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O'Brien |
| Directed by | Kenny Ortega |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | John Ryan |
| Cinematography | Luc Montpellier |
| Editor(s) | Don Brochu |
| Running time | 88 minutes (TV cut) 95 minutes (Extended cut) |
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| Distributor | 20th Television |
| Budget | $20 million |
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| Original network | Fox |
| Original release | October 20, 2016 |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (also known as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show Event) is a 2016 American musical comedy television film. It is a tribute to the cult classic 1975 film of the same name and directed by Kenny Ortega, using the original script written by Richard O'Brien and Jim Sharman.
Starring an ensemble cast led by Laverne Cox, the film premiered on the Fox network on October 20, 2016 to mixed reviews from critics and audiences.
The plot of the remake is fundamentally identical to the original film, with some additional scenes wrapped around the film. These scenes show several people attending a theatrical showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and subsequently are used to introduce some of the audience participation elements from the original film (such as throwing toilet paper on the line "Great Scott!").
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.
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. On October 21, 2015, Emmy Award nominee Laverne Cox, best known for her role as prisoner Sophia Burset on Netflix's prison comedy-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.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. The creative team is planning "to stick faithfully to the text and the score of the original but greatly re-imagine the story visually".
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