An Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Remake… From The Ask a Ninja Guys?
Alright, now I’ve heard everything. Someone out there is actually putting up money for a remake of John De Bello’s 1978 cult classic Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. The project is being set up with Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine in line to write the script, and Nichols prepped to make his directorial debut. Who are they? Why, none other than the guys behind the wildly popular video podcast Ask a Ninja.
Something about this just doesn’t sit right with me. It’s not that Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is an untouchable classic or anything… I just don’t see the point in remaking it. The original is so delightfully wacky that it really can’t be improved upon. To me, it sounds like these Ask a Ninja guys are unable to come up with an original idea (or at least unable to sell one). I’m not a big fan of Ask a Ninja in the first place, and add this to the fact that the producer is the same guy behind the recent Day of the Dead remake (which is supposed to be horrible), I don’t have much interest in it. Now, if they were to remake the sequel instead, and bring back George Clooney to reprise his career-defining role… then we could talk!
Comments (3)
Ask A Ninja fucking sucks.
Posted by Henrik on March 11th, 2008I am not a fan of Ask A Ninja either. Just putting the words Ninja, Monkey, and/or Pirate in the title of your show does not immediately make it funny as much as some people would like that to be the case.
As for Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, it’s more of a hilarious concept to think about than it is a great movie. The original is okay, but it’s certainly not a movie that I have terribly fond memories of. Even so, I can’t imagine a remake, especially one by the Ask A Ninja guys, being anywhere near as worthwhile as the original.
No thanks.
Posted by Rian on March 12th, 2008O Boy. That Mena Suvari/Ving Rhames remake of Day of the Dead is really, really bad. Bored out of your skull bad. Embarrassingly bad.
I’ve seen a few of those Ask A Ninja bits, and…terrible.
After Zucker/Abrams/Zucker and the slew of parodies in the 1980s, not to mention the recent mess of really bad spoof films Epic/Superhero/Scary/Date Movie. Well, something like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes just doesn’t have the off-the-wall originality it did back in 78. Attack is embarrassingly bad at times, but the wacko enthusiasm of the film is catchy and thus much of the rough spots are easy to forgive. I don’t see folks being so kind to a remake.
Bad Idea.
Posted by kurt on March 12th, 2008Leave a Reply