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variety.com - 7/31/2008

Stern sets 'Rock 'n' Roll' remake - Entertainment News, Music News, Media

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Alex Winter to write 'High School' for shockjock Howard Stern is revisiting "Rock 'n' Roll High School." The shockjock is producing, along with Larry Levinson, a remake of the 1979 film. Alex Winter, best known for playing alongside Keanu Reeves in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," has been hired to script it. Pic was about a group of rebellious students who, with the help of punk rock band ...

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Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip:  Does The World Need A "Rock N Roll High School" Remake? (Even If It's Written By Bill S. Preston, Esq.?) [The End Of Ideas]

Best Week Ever:  Bill S. Preston, Esquire, Screenwriter

Movie Dearest:  Rock 'N' Roll Redux

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Does The World Need A "Rock N Roll High School" Remake? (Even If It's Written By Bill S. Preston, Esq.?) [The End Of Ideas]
Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip — ... "This movie seemed so ripe for a remake," Winter told Variety. Call me crazy, but I have a feeling that the role of the Ramones will get played by, I don't know, McFly or Busted or some other band that some desperate major-label exec is really trying to "break." And if that does indeed come to pass, the whole enterprise is going to be more than a little bogus, dude. [Variety / ...

Bill S. Preston, Esquire, Screenwriter
Best Week Ever — Howard Stern is planning on producing a remake of the 1979 film Rock n' Roll High School, to be scripted by none other than teenage vampire and princess-rescuer extraordinaire, Alex "Bill" Winter: Alex Winter, best known for playing alongside Keanu Reeves in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," has been hired to script it. "I've now done so much stuff in musicvideos, and the Napster movie, that the chance to bridge music and comedy was something that intrigued me," Winter said. "This movie seemed so ripe for a ...

Rock 'N' Roll Redux
Movie Dearest — ... In addition to his plan to remake Porky's (seriously), self-proclaimed "King of All Media" Howard Stern continues to branch out further into movie production with the announcement that he plans to revisit Rock 'N' Roll High School. Alex Winter (Bill in the Bill & Ted movies) has been recruited to update the script. ...