Everything old is new again

Yes, the 80's are still coming back with a vengeance. On top of what I recently mentioned about Smurfs and Fraggle Rock (and the Chipmunks sequel), it seems that 21 Jump Street is going to be making a big-screen comeback. You remember that one, don't you? It starred Johnny Depp before he became Tim Burton's poster child. Rumor has it that Jonah Hill of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Superbad will be working on the script as well as executive producing... he may star in it as well. This is all well and good, I suppose, but makes it sound like they're shifting 21 Jump Street into a comedy (which almost always ends badly.)

In sequel news, things are chugging right along with Final Destination 4 and Saw V. The new Final Destination movie starts off with a racecar crash and presumably gets worse from there (what can I say, I'm not a fan of the Final Destination movies. *smiles*) Saw V picks up where Saw IV left off, following the survivor who's taken over Jigsaw's legacy as he tries to tie up loose ends.

To round out the "everything old is new again" theme, we've also got a book adaptation... "Islands in the Stream", the posthumously-published novel by Earnest Hemmingway, is headed for the big screen. It's being adapted, directed, and produced by none other than Tommy Lee Jones, who will also star in the film. Given Jones' acting chops and the plot of the novel (Jones will play a reclusive painter who lives in the Bahamas before, during, and after World War II) it'll probably be an amazing drama. Unfortunately, it doesn't start filming until March '09.