Simon Brew Aug 16, 2017
1988's License To Drive, starring Heather Graham and the two Coreys, is getting a Hollywood remake...
We’ve been strangely bereft of movie remake stories for a little while, but rest assured there are plenty still chugging their way through the Hollywood system. Another one is coming too, with the news that 1988 comedy License To Drive is next for a do-over.
The original film starred Corey Haim, Corey Feldman and Heather Graham, and followed a teen who failed his driving test. He celebrates in the time honoured fashion by, er, taking his grandfather’s prized car for a night on the town.
This time around, the two leads in the movie will be female, and the new script is being written by Alisha Brophy and Scott Miles. John Davis is producing the film, and no director has thus far been appointed.
When we get details as to when to expect the movie,...
1988's License To Drive, starring Heather Graham and the two Coreys, is getting a Hollywood remake...
We’ve been strangely bereft of movie remake stories for a little while, but rest assured there are plenty still chugging their way through the Hollywood system. Another one is coming too, with the news that 1988 comedy License To Drive is next for a do-over.
The original film starred Corey Haim, Corey Feldman and Heather Graham, and followed a teen who failed his driving test. He celebrates in the time honoured fashion by, er, taking his grandfather’s prized car for a night on the town.
This time around, the two leads in the movie will be female, and the new script is being written by Alisha Brophy and Scott Miles. John Davis is producing the film, and no director has thus far been appointed.
When we get details as to when to expect the movie,...
- 8/16/2017
- Den of Geek
According to Deadline, screenwriters Alisha Brophy and Scott Miles have been hired by 20th Century Fox to develop a female-led remake of the 1988 Corey Haim/Feldman comedy License To Drive. The original movie is about a teenager who fails his driving test, but he takes his dad’s prized Cadillac for a joyride anyway in an attempt to impress his girlfriend (played by Heather Graham). Being an ‘80s comedy about teens, things go pretty poorly from there, and everybody has wild adventures where they learn about life and love. Weirdly, the Deadline story says that this remake is “being described as the female version of Superbad,” even though it’s already literally the female version of License To Drive.
Brophy and Miles have previously been attached to write the adaptation of White Girl Problems, so they’re clearly a go-to team these days for comedies like this.
Brophy and Miles have previously been attached to write the adaptation of White Girl Problems, so they’re clearly a go-to team these days for comedies like this.
- 8/15/2017
- by Sam Barsanti
- avclub.com
Exclusive: Danielle Macdonald, who broke out as the star of this year’s Sundance Film Festival hit Patti Cake$, has landed the lead in White Girl Problems, the Lionsgate pic based on Babe Walker’s bestselling book. The rights were acquired in 2013 for producers Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman. Lauren Palmigiano, formerly head writer and executive producer at Funny or Die, will make her feature film directorial debut on the pic, which was adapted by Alisha Brophy and…...
- 8/2/2017
- Deadline
Funny or Die former head writer Lauren Palmigiano is set to direct “White Girl Problems” for Lionsgate based on Babe Walker’s best-seller, an individual confirmed to TheWrap. It will mark the feature directing debut for Palmigiano. Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman are producing “White Girl Problems” through their Brownstone Productions banner. The producing duo sold it to Lionsgate back in 2013. Also Read: Elizabeth Banks to Sarah Silverman: Democratic Convention Celebrity Guests Ranked (Videos) The 2014 Nicholl Fellowship winners Alisha Brophy and Scott Miles adapted the book to the screen. First published in 2012,”White Girl Problems” follows a young woman...
- 8/15/2016
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Lauren Palmigiano, formerly the head writer and executive producer for Funny or Die, will make her feature film directorial debut White Girl Problems at Lionsgate. Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman are producing the film based on the bestselling book by Babe Walker through their Brownstone Productions banner. It was bought by Lionsgate in 2013 for Pitch Perfect producers. Alisha Brophy and Scott Miles, who won the 2014 Nicholl Fellowship for their screenplay Uni…...
- 8/15/2016
- Deadline
Exclusive: CBS Films has bought Swiped, an original pitch described as a comedic takedown of modern dating from writers Alisha Brophy and Scott Miles. This is the third project the writers have set up around town along with White Girl Problems, which is at Lionsgate (and out to directors), and Boys Are Stupid at Universal Pictures. Both of those are being produced by Brownstone. Swiped is being produced by Circle of Confusion (Matt Smith and Brad Mendelsohn) and the…...
- 4/12/2016
- Deadline
Exclusive: Writers Alisha Brophy and Scott Miles, who won this year’s Nicholl’s Fellowship for their screenplay United States of Fuckin’ Awesome, just signed on to adapt Lionsgate’s White Girl Problems. The book, written by “Babe Walker” — who is actually the creation of brothers Tanner and David Oliver Cohen and their friend Lara Schoenhals — was bought by Lionsgate in 2013 for Pitch Perfect producers Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman through their Brownstone Productions…...
- 5/11/2015
- Deadline
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