The made-for-TV movie is a lost art form. (Thankfully so, due to the advent of the golden, #TooMuchTV era of excellent programming on the small screen.)
But one of the classics has to be Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?, if for no other reason than its title. The movie, which broadcast on NBC in 1996, starred Tori Spelling as a college student whose dreamy boyfriend (Tom Brady look-alike Ivan Sergei) turns out to have murderous tendencies. Yes, that was nearly 20 years ago. And to commemorate that anniversary, James Franco is executive-producing a remake for Lifetime (which has done its best to keep the artform alive).
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Yes, that was nearly 20 years ago. And to commemorate that anniversary, James Franco is executive-producing a remake for Lifetime (which has done its best to keep the artform alive). This seems like such a Franco move, totally postmodern but maybe not as clever as he thinks it is. Of course, he could be entirely self-aware and just totally amused that he is allowed to do stuff like this because he’s James Franco.
Vulture’s Josef Adalian also reports that Spelling will have a role in the remake, playing the mother. She might as well be in on the joke, along with Franco, right? Especially when it keeps getting her acting work.
[Vulture]
