{"id":730,"date":"2008-05-16T07:27:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T11:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2008-05-12T21:29:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T01:29:15","slug":"eddie-murphy-to-remake-incredible-shrinking-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Murphy to Remake <I>Incredible Shrinking Man<\/I>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/shrinkingman-94x150.jpg\" alt=\"Shrinking Man Poster\" title=\"Shrinking Man Poster\" width=\"94\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>(Subtitle, Oh FFS)<\/p>\n<p>As <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sliceofscifi.com\/2008\/05\/12\/the-incredible-shrinking-eddie-murphy\/\">Slice of SciFi<\/A> points out, the original 1957 version of the movie was a drama which probed serious questions about the nature of humans and their place in an ever-expanding universe.<\/p>\n<p>It goes without saying that Murphy is turning this into a comedy.<\/p>\n<p>The remake features Murphy as a Las Vegas magician who is put under a shrinking spell.  He has to find a cure before he disappears completely, and the film revolves around his &#8220;misadventures&#8221; as he keeps shrinking.  Verily, it will be a laff riot.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame there isn&#8217;t some sort of review panel that has to approve any potential remake of a classic before production can begin.  And if they&#8217;re presented with some kind of wacky &#8220;reimagining&#8221; of a much-beloved film, they&#8217;re allowed to slap the writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Subtitle, Oh FFS) As Slice of SciFi points out, the original 1957 version of the movie was a drama which probed serious questions about the nature of humans and their place in an ever-expanding universe. It goes without saying that Murphy is turning this into a comedy. The remake features Murphy as a Las Vegas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}