Together AGAIN in Electric Dreams?

The good news just keeps coming this summer. First, The Human League embarks on their first big U.S. tour in forever, finishing each glorious show with "Together in Electric Dreams," and now ...

The 1984 flick "Electric Dreams" -- which used the Phil Oakey/Giorgio Moroder song as a title track -- could be remade soon.

Virginia Madsen, who co-starred in the original flick, has the remake project on the slate of her new production company, Title IX Productions. The film also starred Lenny Von Dohlen ("Twin Peaks") and Maxwell Caulfield ("Grease 2").

Normally, I'd rail against remaking a '80s classic, but I won't here because, well, frankly it wasn't exactly a classic. The song sold better than the movie, and the plot -- which followed a devilish computer and its geeky owner as they fight over a sexy female -- could really benefit from an update in technology.

Still, as always, I have some plot suggestions...

TOP 5 CHANGES TO THE NEW 'ELECTRIC DREAMS':

5. BRING BACK THE CAST: Bring back the original cast, but make Madsen the lonely geek who buys a computer to combat her loneliness.

4. STUCK IN THE ... REMAKE: Have Mr. Von Dohlen play the seemingly unobtainable and sexy creator of a 80s blog and podcast, who catches the fancy of Madsen through his brilliantly clever but very sensitive and heartfelt writing.

3. A MAC ATTACK: Give Madsen a Mac powerbook to use as her accomplice. Macs are wily critters capable of any sorts of mischief. And ultimately, our 80s blogger/hero will choose the very sexy Madsen over something that keeps crashing whenever he tries to load his favorite adult sites.

2. THE COMIC RELIEF: That rascal Caulfield can play the blogger's best friend -- perhaps give him the role of an large-headed music critic who likes to burst out into songs from ... you guessed it, "Grease 2." ("Reproduction! Is that all you think about? Reproduction!")

1. TOGETHER AGAIN: And finally, bring back the talented Phil Oakey to re-mix the original title track and to add another 10 new tunes for the soundtrack, thus launching the band on yet another tour of the U.S.

Now that's a dream I can really get into.

Comments

[cliff]

if ever its a green light to make the movie . do we have to go for a desktop computer over a laptop computer just ike the original.

with the updated technology its more plausible.advantage as a marketing tool for such software industries on artificial intelligent, bots,and other things geeks likes.

[Chad In Spokane]

Don't do it! Don't do it! Don't do it!

Hasn't Hollywood screwed enough classic things up by remaking them???

As a kid at the time it came out- the nostalgia was amazing during the early computer age.

DON'T DO IT!!! Come up with another idea!

[Just watched it again after 20yrs]

The thing that made the first one work was that computers weren't fully understood and we could still use our imaginations as to what they may be capable of. Today the Playstation 3 can control everything in your house, identity theft is simple, and an artificially intelligent computer is less funny than it is plausible. They'd have to come up with a completely different movie to make this work. And plus we lose all the cool 80s music video feel that was a big part of the original. Bad idea if you ask me.

[Jeff from Vegas]

I listened to that song one too many times. Now I have an earworm.

[chase]

I loved this flick when it came out (ooops, unmasked as a dork)

[Rick]

Hey, Steve! I think that having a female lead is a terrific idea --
one which clearly allows Madsen to star. That would be a great
twist on the original.

Great idea!

And I am also with you that movies which had great -- but unfulfilled potential -- should be open for remakes, not movies that were hits.

(P.S. Maybe Madsen's character could have a blog and, I dunno, call it "Wildhair" or something and it could be about finding a good man.)

[Spears]

I'm chatting with Six via email. Trying to get the scoop.

[Tonianne]

hey mike - you realize i read all your posts now with a pepe the prawn/tony montana accent:

"after i make electric dreams, i make electric dreams again..."

[Mike in Austin]

Six??? Huh??? Six??? Steve and I were talking about you at dinner last week. Oh where, oh where has Six been?

[Marissa]

Some things are better left unsaid.

This needn't be remade. Just re-release the song.

[Spears]

Hey Jeff -- ummm, yeah, except the geek part.

[Bassnote]

If they do it your way Spearsy, it could work. BUT, we're talking Hollywood here, so they'll screw it up.

[Jeff from Vegas]

Isn't that too much like real life?

[Six]

I shudder to think what teen idiot(s) they're going to get to play in the remake.

Come to think of it, I don't even wanna know. I'll stick with the original.