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Who plays eddie in rocky horror remake9/22/2023 It’s just a step to the left and a jump to the right to relive the magic. Costumes were impeccable beginning to end and displayed the eccentricity of the aliens from Transylvania.Īll in all, the stars did an excellent job of embodying the controversial and crowd favorite that is “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” It is comforting to know the musical that rocked the nation in a very trying time can come back to the screen and be welcomed even more so in our day and age to keep us rocking to timeless songs. FOX and director Kenny Ortega seemed to play up the production by overdoing the aspect that it was indeed a production, demoting the emotional appeal the musical phenomenon had to offer. ![]() Although the film is known for the unnatural and supernatural there was a flow to the film that made it seem as though you were really involved in the storyline. While the actors stayed true to their character’s legacy, the modern flare gave each song a heightened musical showcase complete with microphones and stages. The performances of the assembled cast did justice to represent a diversity of characters with spunk, however they were done with obvious lip synching. Frank-N-Furter producing Staz Nair, the Rocky Horror creation. Finally, Laverne Cox takes center stage as Dr. Contributing to the new cast are Christina Milian as Magenta and Adam Lambert as Eddie. The cookie-cutter newly engaged couple Janet Weiss and Brad Majors, originally Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick, are now played by Victoria Justice and Ryan McCartan respectively. Frank-N-Furter, an extraterrestrial transsexual from Transylvania makes a comeback as the narrator of the film as the criminologist expert Charles Gray. Everett von Scott, the Rival Scientist Tim Curry as the Narrator/Criminologist 7 (Curry famously portrayed Dr. Brought back to life by FOX, a modern rendition of the cult classic 70’s musical “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” features many familiar faces to do the film justice creatively and with a fabulous flare. Adam Lambert as Eddie, the Ex-Delivery Boy Reeve Carney as Riff-Raff, the Handyman Christina Milian as Magenta, the Domestic Servant Ivy Levan as Trixie, the Usherette Ben Vereen as Dr. Frank-N-Furter where a group of eclectic resident aliens led by the transvestite from Transylvania receive two visitors. Get transported back to the very beloved extraneous castle of Dr. “Hot Patootie” is a high point here, as is “Time Warp,” which still provides as good an excuse to dance around stupidly as it did when Gerald Ford was president.īottom line: The re-done songs rock, the characters are memorable, and Rocky Horror is still good, dirty fun.Remake of the cult classic “Rocky Horror Picture Show” just in time for Halloween ![]() Furter, instead plays Eddie, the biker Elvis-wannabe first played by a then virtually unknown Meat Loaf. She approaches the role a (tiny) bit more subdued than did Curry the sight (or the very idea) of a horny transgender scientist was a lot more jarring 40 years ago then it is now.Īdam Lambert, who some feel would have made an equally swell Frank N. ![]() His signature role this time out is played by Laverne Cox of “Orange Is The New Black,” herself a transgender performer. Multi-platinum recording artist Adam Lambert has signed on to play the rocker Eddie in Foxs Rocky Horror Picture Show remake. Furter, the “sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania.” Curry is back - but this time as the narrator. The show launched Tim Curry to stardom as Dr. It still bristles with all the weirdness and gender-bending that made the 1975 film a great excuse to party, then dress up in character and go to a midnight showing where you not only watched the show, you threw rice at the screen, sprayed water on fellow theatergoers, and shouted lines back and forth to the actors. More than 40 years after one of the great cult films of all time introduced an unsuspecting public to sweet transvestites, a mad scientist making an erotic Frankenstein creature, and a highly repressed yet oversexed Brad and Janet, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is back, this time as a TV remake Thursday on Fox.
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