Hollywood Reporter says:
Paramount is lathering up the suds for a remake of Soapdish.
Actor-writer Ben Schwartz has been hired to write the remake of the 1991 comedy, which told of the goings on behind the scenes at a daytime soap.
The original, produced by Aaron Spelling and Alan Greisman, included Sally Field, Robert Downey Jr., Teri Hatcher, Kevin Kline, and Whoopi Goldberg among others in its roll call.
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This guy read my mind (one of the posters in the article)
"Pure genius!! And super topical, since in 2011, the hottest, coolest, trendiest, genre on television right now... is daytime soaps? I'm pretty sure somebody said "let's remake soapdish" in a pitch meeting just to get a laugh as an icebreaker, and some executive said "brilliant!"
Do they think this will make money? Better get a good ass cast if so.
I wouldn't mind a remake. It was an okay movie.