The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Lets Do the Time Warp Again Science Fiction Double Feature

2016 American flick directed by Kenny Ortega

The Rocky Horror Flick Prove: Allow'due south Practise the Time Warp Again
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One of pre-release posters

Based on The Rocky Horror Moving-picture show Show
past Jim Sharman
Richard O'Brien

The Rocky Horror Show
and The Rocky Horror Show Live
past Richard O'Brien

Directed by Kenny Ortega
Starring
  • Laverne Cox
  • Victoria Justice
  • Ryan McCartan
  • Annaleigh Ashford
  • Adam Lambert
  • Reeve Carney
  • Christina Milian
  • Staz Nair
  • Ivy Levan
  • Ben Vereen
  • Tim Curry
Narrated by Tim Curry
Music by
  • Richard Hartley
  • Richard O'Brien
Country of origin United States
Original language English
Production
Executive producers
  • Lou Adler
  • Gail Berman
  • Kenny Ortega
Producer John Ryan
Cinematography Luc Montpellier
Editor Don Brochu
Running time 88 minutes (Goggle box cut)
95 minutes (Extended cut) [1]
Production companies
  • Fox 21 Goggle box Studios
  • Ode Sounds & Visuals
  • The Jackal Group
Distributor 20th Television
Budget $20 million[2]
Release
Original network Fox
Original release October 20, 2016 (2016-10-twenty)
External links
Website

The Rocky Horror Moving-picture show Evidence: Let's Do the Fourth dimension Warp Again (also known as The Rocky Horror Picture Prove Result and/or only The Rocky Horror Picture Bear witness ) is a 2022 American musical comedy television picture. It is a tribute[iii] to and remake of the cult classic 1975 pic of the same name and directed past Kenny Ortega, using the original script written by Richard O'Brien and Jim Sharman.

Starring an ensemble cast led by Laverne Cox, the film premiered on the Fob network on Oct 20, 2016.

Plot [edit]

The plot of the tribute is fundamentally identical to the original film, with some additional scenes wrapped around the film. These scenes show several people attending a theatrical showing of The Rocky Horror Pic Prove, and subsequently are used to introduce some of the audience participation elements from the original film (such as throwing toilet paper on the line "Great Scott!").[4]

Cast [edit]

  • Laverne Cox equally Dr. Frank-Northward-Furter, the Mad Scientist, originally played by Terrence Isle of man in the Musical. [5] [half-dozen]
  • Victoria Justice as Janet Weiss, the Heroine
  • Ryan McCartan as Brad Majors, the Hero
  • Staz Nair as Rocky Horror, Frank's Creation
  • Annaleigh Ashford as Columbia, the Groupie
  • Adam Lambert every bit Eddie, the Ex-Delivery Male child
  • Reeve Carney as Riff-Raff, the Handyman
  • Christina Milian as Magenta, the Domestic Servant
  • Ivy Levan as Trixie, the Usherette
  • Ben Vereen equally Dr. Everett von Scott, the Rival Scientist
  • Tim Curry every bit the Narrator/Criminologist[7] (Curry famously portrayed Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the original film).
  • Jayne Eastwood as The Butler
  • Jeff Lillico as Ralph Hapschatt
  • Kelly Van der Burg equally Betty Hapschatt-Munroe
  • Sal Piro as The Photographer

Musical numbers [edit]

  1. "Science Fiction/Double Feature" - Trixie
  2. "Dammit Janet" - Brad, Janet, and Chorus
  3. "There's a Light (Over at the Frankenstein Identify)" - Janet, Brad, Riff Raff, and Chorus
  4. "The Time Warp" - Riff Raff, Magenta, The Criminologist, Columbia, and Transylvanians
  5. "Sweet Transvestite" - Frank
  6. "The Sword of Damocles" - Rocky
  7. "I Can Make Yous a Man" - Frank
  8. "Hot Patootie – Anoint My Soul" - Eddie
  9. "I Can Make You a Man" (reprise) - Frank, Janet, and Transylvanians
  10. "Touch-a, Bear upon-a, Impact-a, Affect Me" - Janet with Magenta, Columbia, and Rocky
  11. "Once in a While" (extended cut) - Brad
  12. "Eddie" - Dr. Scott, The Criminologist, Janet, Frank, and Columbia
  13. "Planet Schmanet Janet (Wise Up Janet Weiss)" - Frank, Janet, Brad, and Dr. Scott
  14. "Rose Tint My World" - Columbia, Rocky, Janet, and Brad
  15. "Fanfare/Don't Dream Information technology, Exist Information technology" - Frank
  16. "Wild and Untamed Thing" - Frank and Riff Raff
  17. "I'm Going Home" - Frank
  18. "The Fourth dimension Warp" (reprise) - Riff Raff and Magenta
  19. "Super Heroes" - Brad, Janet, and Chorus
  20. "Science Fiction/Double Feature" (reprise) - Trixie and Eddie

Production [edit]

Laverne Cox portrayed Dr. Frank-N-Furter

Plans for a remake at Flim-flam engagement back to 2002, when a 2003 release engagement was under consideration to marking the 30-year ceremony of the play which spawned the moving picture, a remake for which former Broadway producer Gail Berman would have been involved as co-producer. MTV had also planned a remake, set up for 2008 and for which Berman was again tapped to produce, just those plans besides cruel through.[3]

On April 10, 2015, information technology was announced that Kenny Ortega, best known for directing the film Hocus Pocus, the High School Musical trilogy, and Michael Jackson's This Is It, would directly the remake.[iii] On October 21, 2015, Emmy Award nominee Laverne Cox, best known for her function as prisoner Sophia Burset on Netflix'south prison comedy-drama Orange Is the New Black, joined the cast to play Dr. Frank-North-Furter, the mad-scientist role originated by Tim Back-scratch in the 1970s.[6] [8] Lou Adler, who produced the original film, likewise co-produced the remake, forth with Gail Berman and Kenny Ortega; Ortega choreographed the motion picture in improver to directing and producing.[8] The creative team planned "to stick faithfully to the text and the score of the original but greatly re-imagine the story visually".[3]

Much of the motion-picture show was shot at Toronto's Casa Loma, beingness used for both Frank N. Furter's castle and the "Castle" movie theatre where the audience participation scenes and Ivy Levan'south functioning of "Science Fiction/Double Characteristic" were filmed. A theatre marquee was temporarily erected at the front entrance for these scenes.[ix]

An unreleased virtual reality experience was in development at the time. A 360-degree video camera rig can be seen in a Behind-the-scenes video released by Fox during a marketing promotion.[10] Withal, the projection was stopped for unknown reasons.

Release [edit]

The world premiere of the film was on Oct 18, 2022 at Cannes MIPCOM.[xi] The picture premiered on Fox on October 20, 2016.[12] The offset 25 minutes of the moving picture were screened at San Diego Comic-Con,[12] as well every bit RKO Con 2, a Rocky Horror convention in Providence, Rhode Island.

The Rocky Horror Film: Let's Exercise the Fourth dimension Warp Over again was released on DVD on December half-dozen, 2016. An extended cut of the film was included featuring deleted scenes and the oftentimes excised vocal "Once in a While", as sung by Brad.[13]

Reception [edit]

Viewership [edit]

The moving picture drew 4.95 1000000 viewers, with a 1.7 rating and a 6 share in the eighteen-49 demographic.[14]

Critical reception [edit]

The special received mixed to negative reviews, although Cox'due south performance was mostly praised. Many critics agreed that the production would have been meliorate if it were live, raising questions why Pull a fast one on decided non to do information technology alive, given the success the network had with Grease: Live. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 28% score based on forty reviews; the critical consensus states, "Laverne Cox'due south fabulous portrayal of Frank Due north. Furter leads a strong ensemble attempt, but the stars can't infuse this reimagining with plenty energy, creativity, and quirk to brand TRHPS: Let's Practise the Time Warp Once again a worthwhile endeavor."[15] On Metacritic, the film has a 55 out of 100 rating, based on 23 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[16]

Esther Zuckerman of The A.V. Club felt that the remake focused also much on the weirdness in the original flick without acknowledging the campiness it had been filmed with. Viewers who had never seen the original flick would be confused past the moving picture-inside-a-movie approach used in the remake.[iv] Matt Tamanini of Broadwayworld.com said that the remake "was a strikingly disappointing missed opportunity" that "felt far more like a production on Glee than the bodily production of Rocky Horror on Glee did", although he did praise the casting of Cox, saying "In the long history of The Rocky Horror Show, the musical has broken down doors and helped pave the fashion for an era of LGBT acceptance. Then for Cox to step into Tim Back-scratch's iconic fishnets is a victory in its own right."[17]

Awards [edit]

The program was nominated for the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series.[18]

International broadcasts [edit]

The film was scheduled to be broadcast in New Zealand on TV3 on October 24, 2016, 3 days after its original broadcast.[nineteen] In U.k., the moving-picture show was commencement circulate on Oct 28, 2022 on Heaven Movie theater Premiere.[20]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "The Rocky Horror Moving-picture show Show: Let's Practise the Time Warp Once again on Amazon". Amazon.com. 2016.
  2. ^ Thompson, Simon (July 25, 2016). "'Rocky Horror' Remake Bandage Talk Giving The $1.2 Million Cult Classic A $twenty 1000000 Update". Forbes.
  3. ^ a b c d Andreeva, Nellie (April 10, 2015). "Rocky Horror Television Remake In Works At Fox With Gail Berman & Kenny Ortega". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved November iv, 2015.
  4. ^ a b Zuckerman, Esther (October 21, 2016). "Fox'south Rocky Horror remake isn't a fourth dimension warp worth doing". The A.V. Club . Retrieved Oct twenty, 2016.
  5. ^ Harp, Justin (Oct 22, 2015). "Orange Is the New Black's Laverne Cox is replacing Tim Curry as Dr Frank-N-Furter in Fox's Rocky Horror Show". Digital Spy . Retrieved November four, 2015.
  6. ^ a b Jayson, Jay (Oct 21, 2015). "Orange Is The New Black's Laverne Cox To Star In Rocky Horror Picture Show Remake". ComicBook.com . Retrieved November 4, 2015.
  7. ^ Fowler, Matt (January xv, 2016). "TIM CURRY TO Accept A ROLE IN FOX'Due south ROCKY HORROR Moving-picture show SHOW TV-MOVIE". IGN . Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  8. ^ a b Hibberd, James (October 21, 2015). "Laverne Cox to star in Fox'south Rocky Horror reboot". Amusement Weekly . Retrieved Nov iv, 2015.
  9. ^ "Rocky Horror Moving picture Bear witness filming at Casa Hill".
  10. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "A Backstage Look At The Craziest Musical Ever Made | THE ROCKY HORROR Motion picture Prove". YouTube.
  11. ^ "MIPCOM set up to do The Time Wrap Again". Retrieved October eleven, 2016.
  12. ^ a b "Fox's Rocky Horror Picture Testify set for pre-Halloween premiere". Amusement Weekly . Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  13. ^ "Fox's Rocky Horror Pic Prove: Let'southward Do the Time Warp Over again Arrives On DVD 12/half dozen". Broadway Earth . Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  14. ^ "TV Ratings 10/20/sixteen: Dammit, Janet! That'due south a Big Comeback over Rosewood (UPDATED!)". The Television set Ratings Guide. October 21, 2016. Retrieved October thirteen, 2017.
  15. ^ "The Rocky Horror Motion picture Show: Let's Practise the Time Warp Again (2016)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved April eleven, 2019.
  16. ^ "The Rocky Horror Picture Prove: Permit'southward Do the Time Warp Once more reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved Oct 25, 2016.
  17. ^ Tamanini, Matt. "BWW Review: Fox'due south THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE Show is an Underwhelming, Sanitized Disappointment".
  18. ^ "GLAAD Media Award Nominees Revealed". The Hollywood Reporter. January 31, 2017. Retrieved April three, 2017.
  19. ^ "HD Heads-Upwards: October thirteen". Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  20. ^ "Sectional premiere - The Rocky Horror Motion picture Testify: Let's Do The Time Warp Again". Retrieved October 18, 2016.

External links [edit]

  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Allow's Practise the Fourth dimension Warp Again at IMDb
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again at Rotten Tomatoes
  • 2016 film teaser at Facebook

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