Like basically every pop-culture milestone of the past fifty years, the equally pro- and transgressive treasure that is the Rocky Horror Picture Show is up for a reboot. While we’ve never remade an iconic cult-phenom, but we imagine Fox had been absolutely packing it trying to straddle the fine line between progress and tradition.
Well, progress has well and truly ticked off. Laverne Cox is set to honour the fishnets as Dr. Frank-N-Furter; signing Adam Levine and Victoria Justice up seems pretty savvy too, but Tim Curry’s newly-announced addition to the cast as the musical’s criminologist narrator is the big deal.
Not content with kicking off the whole cult-cinema thing in the film’s original iteration, his return to the story is especially poignant, considering the major stroke the 69-year-old actor suffered in 2012.
With any luck, the hokey so-bad-it’s-good cache films like The Room now enjoy will play into Rocky Horror’s sequin-clad hands when it drops later this year.
Source: Vulture.
Photo: Michael Ochs Archives / Getty.
Photo: Michael Ochs Archives / Getty.
