I have to admit I wasn’t a big fan of the Weekend at Bernie’s movies. I found the gag of making a dead guy look alive for that long was just not funny after the first 10 minutes of his afterlife. When they brought out a sequel they had to use Voodoo to get Bernie’s body back, for whatever reason. I don’t think I even watched that one. So imagine my excitement when they said they were going to remake Weekend at Bernie’s?
Movie Hole reports:
Yep, it was bound to happen – though, I personally thought it wouldn’t happen until after they remade “The Godfather”, “Grease” and “Ghostbusters” – a remake of that late 80s classic (!) “Weekend at Bernie’s”.
Who can forget that little beautie? Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as two schmucks who head up to their boss’s beach pad for the weekend only to find him dead – and then decide to convince everyone that he in fact is just a little inebriated. (As both actors were when they signed up for the film). It was like cheap crack… so bad, yet ya kept drawing it in.
Anyway, “Next Weekend at Bernies” is being produced by Ashok Amritraj – currently working on the new “Street Fighter” movie – and Jon Jashni (“Where the Wild Things Are”) for Hyde Park and MGM. From the sounds of it, its essentially the same storyline – except this time Bernie invites the two guys up to his ‘Ski Lodge’ – so expect plenty of ‘dead body’ goes skiing, jokes – instead of the Beach House.
I dont know what is more upsetting. The fact that they are making this movie, or that they have to wait for the producer to finish making another STREETFIGHTER MOVIE first?
I can just see Amritraj’s resume now. Filled with a list of sequels and remakes of movies no one cared about doing. Digging deep in the studio dumpsters there huh?
So this remake is being called NEXT Weekend at Bernie’s but its basically the first movie all over again. I don’t get the “next” part. Actually I don’t get any of it. I don’t know why they are making this.
