My main problem with the notion of a Spaced remake is the sheer lack of respect that Granada / Wonderland / Warner Bros have displayed in respectively selling out and appropriating our ideas without even letting us know. A decision I can only presume was made as a way of avoiding having to give us any money, whilst at the same time using mine and Edgar’s name in their press release, in order to trade on the success of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, even professing, as Peter Johnson did, to being a big fan of the show and it’s creators.
(Is that a grocer's apostrophe at the end there? SIC)
It could be so, so bad, but we'll wait and see. Let's remember how it used to be:
Via www.popbitch.com, though I don't think this news is very new.
From Hell is great - in fact, I haven't seen many Johnny Depp films that I haven't liked apart from the awful remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (never the same without Gene Wilder, who curiously looked a little bit like my dad).