On the finish of the ’90s, comedians Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris, and Stephen Colbert teamed with author Mitch Rouse to create the sitcom Strangers with Sweet, which was impressed by traditional after faculty specials and ran for 3 seasons on Comedy Central with Sedaris within the lead position. Years later, Dinello, Sedaris, and Colbert wrapped issues up with the Strangers with Sweet film, which served as a prequel to the TV present and was directed by Dinello. Now, it has been introduced that Dinello and Sedaris are working collectively once more – and this time, they’re bringing us a remake, or a “comedic reimagining,” of the 1959 sci-fi horror movie The Wasp Girl!
Synopsis
Directed by the legendary Roger Corman from a script that was crafted by Leo Gordon and Kinta Zertuche, The Wasp Girl centered on Janice Starlin, the founding father of a cosmetics firm who makes an attempt to reverse the growing older course of utilizing experimental enzymes derived from queen wasps, with disastrous outcomes. A press launch confirms that the brand new movie could have the identical plot.
The remake is being produced by Mark Roberts, who produced the Strangers with Sweet movie; Jordan Fields of Radial Entertainment, which owns the Roger Corman library by way of its Shout! Studios model; Meyer Shwarzstein of One other Brainy Concept, and Michael Richter of A Main Manufacturing.
Dinello, who served as author/supervising producer for The Late Present, will write and direct the brand new movie. He supplied the next assertion: “When I read the story about a former supermodel turned dynamic businesswoman who slowly metamorphosed into a violent insect, I immediately thought, Amy Sedaris.” Sedaris added, “I really like working with these guys. Can’t wait!“
Joseph Middleton, who beforehand labored on the Strangers with Sweet movie and served as head of casting at Paramount for a decade, is on board to assemble the solid. The press launch notes that Sedaris is more likely to “tap her comedy friends” for the undertaking.
Earlier Variations
Roger Corman made the unique The Wasp Girl on a funds of round $50,000 and shot the film in lower than two weeks. Susan Cabot starred as Janice Starlin. In 1995, Corman produced a remake of the movie for Showtime as a part of the anthology sequence Roger Corman Presents. Jim Wynorski directed that one from a screenplay by Daniella Purcell and Man Prevost, with Jennifer Rubin taking over the position of Janice Starlin.
The unique The Wasp Girl is a wacky film with a operating time of simply 73 minutes, so I often find yourself placing it on sooner or later each October, throughout my month-long horror marathon. The set-up is there for a enjoyable “comedic reimagining,” so I look ahead to seeing what Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris do with the idea.
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