Channing Tatum’s manufacturing firm owns the rights to the seductive 1990 romantic drama “Ghost” and is planning to remake it.
“We actually have the rights,” the “Magic Mike XXL” star-producer let slip in a Vanity Fair interview revealed Tuesday. The actor was being interviewed whereas throwing clay with the interviewer, as one does.
The “Bullet Train” actor and “Dog” star and director, 42, added that he might doubtlessly play the late Patrick Swayze’s position within the supernatural thriller, which was written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker.
Swayze, who died in 2009, performed New York funding banker Sam Wheat, who’s killed and returns as a ghost to unravel his personal homicide. In his afterlife, he tries to extra absolutely specific his love for his girlfriend, performed by Demi Moore, by a reluctant medium, performed by Whoopi Goldberg in an Oscar-winning flip.
The summer time launch solidified Swayze as each an actor and a heartthrob and endlessly related a sensual clay-throwing scene with the artwork of pottery. The runaway hit grossed almost $218 million on the home field workplace and $288 million internationally, putting it among the many highest-grossing movies of 1990.
According to Vanity Fair, Tatum’s manufacturing firm, Free Association, is attempting to place collectively the remake and can make modifications to maneuver away from some problematic stereotypes related to the unique movie. (In 2020, Goldberg steered that racism and maybe an unenthusiastic response to the movie’s mixed-race forged prevented the traditional movie from yielding spin-offs and extra variations.)
“[W]e’re going to do something different,” Tatum mentioned, “I think it needs to change a little bit and have our…”
But the actor by no means completed his thought — as a result of he was very distracted by the “very, very sexual” pottery he was making.
Representatives for Tatum and Free Association didn’t instantly reply Tuesday to The Times’ requests for remark.
The actor might be onscreen subsequent within the Feb. 10 launch “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” re-teaming with “Magic Mike” director Steven Soderbergh for the final installment of the stripper saga that was primarily based on Tatum’s early profession as an unique dancer. The movie has additionally spawned a reside present in Las Vegas and an HBO Max actuality present.
