Remake Alert! - Jekyll and Hyde (2010)

Reposted from Silver Screen Kid May 2009



Watch out! 50 Cent is about to take the horror remake world by storm! He's bringing the same talent and craftsmanship (sarcasm implied) that he brings to his music to the big screen. Forrest Whittaker is also attached to the project, due in 2010. How do I know this remake is going to blow goats? I read between the lines:

"Director Abel Ferrara is taking another walk on the wild side with a re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which will be contemporized and titled Jekyll and Hyde. Forest Whitaker and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson are attached to play the lead roles in the classic tale about a doctor who invents a potion that unleashes his violent alter ego." (Variety)

"Contemporized" is never a good word to describe a remake. Usually it means they include scenes with cell phones and email. In this case, I imagine they'll transpose the story to an "urban" setting - aka The Ghetto. In any case, I can't imagine 50 Cent offering up even a fraction of the physical expressiveness necessary to pull off the switch between personalities integral to the plot. And who's going to play which part, I wonder? 50 Cent as a mad scientist??? Doubtful. They'll probably make him Hyde. Either way it's gonna blow goats. Trust me, I know these things. I'm from the internet.