It's a late night. You're driving home from a cocktail party, or a rotary meeting, or something. Your wife frantically demands that you pull over. You hate when she gets this excitable without explaining why, but you pull the car over, and that's when you see it too. Something up ahead, lying in a fetid drainage ditch off the side of the road. You tell your wife to stay in the car, and to call the police. Slowly, you make your way over towards the broken shape to investigate, but even before you get to it you already know what it is. Your childhood has been raped and beaten and left for dead. You take off your coat to keep it warm. Who would do such a thing? "Hollywood" is carved into the corpse's forehead.
That's right, you guys, the Short Circuit remake moves forward! A screenwriter has been attached to the project! Oh phew. Reports io9:
Rumors of a remake of the eighties robot comedy Short Circuit have been circulating for over a year, but yesterday the project just got a lot more serious with the announcement of an experienced comedy screenwriter.
Screenwriter Dan Milano comes to the project with the kind of comedy background that gives me some hope for this project. He co-created and voiced the title character on the cult classic Greg The Bunny, and he's currently writing for the geeky awesomeness that is Robot Chicken.
David Foster, one of the producers of the original Short Circuit, will also be producing the remake, and he stressed the film will be acknowledging the massive strides the robotics field has made in the last twenty-three years.
Sure, because if there's one thing about the Short Circuit franchise, it's basically the second most serious documentary about realistic robots ever made*.
Of course, to appeal to today's generation, they're going to have to update Johnny 5. You know, for the kids. Give him some cool new features, like Agent Cody Banks but for a robot. After the jump, I present an exclusive look at JOHNNY 5000:
Of course, Hollywood is always a couple of years behind when it comes to cool new trends, but I think they did a pretty decent job of making the new Johnny relatable, and most importantly, BODACIOUS.
COWABUNGA, DUDE.COM!
*After Chopping Mall.
