A remake of Roger Corman’s 1959 horror cult traditional The Wasp Girl is presently in improvement from the celebs of Strangers with Sweet. The unique movie starred Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Michael Mark, and Barboura Morris.
Regardless of receiving a mediocre 45% Rotten Tomatoes rating, The Wasp Girl has turn out to be a cult traditional and spawned a Showtime remake in 1995 that was panned by audiences.
In response to Selection, Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello are remaking The Wasp Girl, with Sedaris locked in because the star and Dinello directing and writing the script.
Their model of The Wasp Girl will observe the unique movie’s plot, with protagonist Janice Starlin trying to “reverse the getting older course of utilizing experimental enzymes derived from queen wasps, with disastrous outcomes,” in response to the official logline.
Mark Roberts, Jordan Fields, Meyer Shwarzstein, and Michael Richter will produce the remake, with Joseph Middleton on board because the casting director. Dinello informed Selection that Roberts approached him about making a remake of certainly one of Corman’s movies.
The Wasp Girl jumped out to him as a result of although it has ’50s sci-fi components, it is telling a “very trendy story” a few former mannequin and businesswoman who’s “coping with getting older and is prepared to take a fringe product to attempt to salvage her appears to be like.” He then realized that Sedaris can be good for the function.
“Mark Roberts, who’s a buddy of mine and produced the Strangers With Sweet film, known as me and stated Shout! was a fan of ours. He stated they personal the catalog to Roger Corman, who I really like. They requested, ‘Would you learn the synopses and see if something jumps out?’ A whole lot of that stuff is like Assault of the Crab Monsters and that form of ’50s really feel. It didn’t actually bounce out. However once I learn the synopsis to Wasp Girl, it has components of ’50s sci-fi, which I like. Nevertheless it additionally has this very trendy story about this former mannequin, a supercharged businesswoman who’s coping with getting older and is prepared to take a fringe product to attempt to salvage her appears to be like or give her youth. Once I learn it, I did, I instantly thought, ‘That is good for Amy.'”
Sedaris cannot wait to work with Dinello once more. She described their model of The Wasp Girl as having a “claustrophobic” really feel, with enjoyable and “inventive” costumes and units. The actor can also’t wait to see who else joins the solid.
“Effectively, any alternative I get to work with Dinello, critically. He understands me so properly, writes so properly for me, is aware of easy methods to direct me and I belief him. I noticed the movie, and the units had been so tight, and it’s so claustrophobic, and it simply actually made me snigger visually. I simply assume it’d be loads of enjoyable to — Are you kidding me? A wasp girl? And simply the costumes alone, it looks as if it’s going to be like a really inventive movie. I’m into that, wardrobe and units. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see who else we get to solid on this film. I believe it’s going to be loads of enjoyable.”
Sedaris and Dinello created the comedy Strangers with Sweet in 1999 with Stephen Colbert and Mitch Rouse, and Roberts was one of many producers. Sedaris, Dinello, and Colbert had been additionally the celebs of the collection. Strangers with Sweet solely aired for 3 seasons, however they reunited for a big-screen prequel in 2005.
Since then, Sedaris has starred in such motion pictures as Shrek the Third, Puss in Boots, 2019’s The Lion King, The Boss Child: Household Enterprise and Clerks III, and appeared on reveals like American Dad!, Scorching In Cleveland, Bob’s Burgers, The Good Spouse, 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Mandalorian, The Ebook of Boba Fett, Physician Odyssey and Elsbeth.
Dinello, in the meantime, is a supervising producer and author on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert. Contemplating what number of Strangers with Sweet alums are engaged on The Wasp Girl remake, each in entrance of and behind the digicam, it is potential that different solid members from that collection may be part of the movie as properly.
In spite of everything, Colbert’s present is ending in Might 2026, so relying on when manufacturing will get underway for The Wasp Girl, the late-night host may discover himself buzzing round a brand new mission. That is all simply hypothesis at this level, with Sedaris the one actor presently confirmed for The Wasp Girl.
Though critics did not like The Wasp Girl again in 1959, Sedaris and Dinello are clearly hoping that the followers of the cult traditional will respect their model of the sci-fi story.
- Launch Date
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October 30, 1959
- Runtime
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61 minutes
- Director
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Roger Corman
- Writers
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Leo Gordon
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Susan Cabot
Janice Starlin
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Michael Mark
Dr. Eric Zinthrop
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Barboura Morris
Mary Dennison
