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Howard Stern's Latest Role: Movie Mogul
The shock jock is turning movie producer and remaking two teen comedy from the '70s and '80s, "Rock 'n' Roll High School" and "Porky's."
Originally posted Friday November 01, 2002 10:00 AM EST
From shock jock to schlock producer, Howard Stern truly is a kingpin of all media.
Variety and the Hollywood Reporter report that the radio powerhouse, 48, who starred in the 1997 "Private Parts" -- an often winning but, ultimately, a box-office sputterer based on his best-selling autobiography -- is now dipping his feet into deeper cinematic puddles.
As executive producer, Stern plans to develop contemporary remakes of such raunchy, decades-old teen comedies as "Porky's" and "Rock 'n' Roll High School" under the banner "Howard Stern Presents."
"I think I represent what National Lampoon once meant to the teen audience," Stern tells Daily Variety. "I'm trying to present something different."
The original "Porky's," produced in Canada in 1981, revolved around a group of male pals and specialized in bare buns and masturbation jokes. It spawned several sequels and introduced audiences to an up-and-coming actress named Kim Cattrall.
"Rock 'n' Roll High School," a 1979 high school comedy produced by B-movie king Roger Corman and containing the behind-the-scenes talents of such future stars Jerry Zucker ("Airplane!) and Joe Dante ("Gremlins"), may be best remembered -- if it is remembered at all -- for its inclusion of the Ramones, a punk band beloved by Stern.
He tells Variety that he would love to use his new "High School" as a launching pad for another up-and-coming group.
"That's the thing that attracts me to ('High School')," Stern said. "Finding a band, working with a record company -- that makes a lot of sense. I'd like to have a 'Singles' type of soundtrack to tap into whatever the next thing is."
Production on both projects is tentatively scheduled to begin next summer.
Variety and the Hollywood Reporter report that the radio powerhouse, 48, who starred in the 1997 "Private Parts" -- an often winning but, ultimately, a box-office sputterer based on his best-selling autobiography -- is now dipping his feet into deeper cinematic puddles.
As executive producer, Stern plans to develop contemporary remakes of such raunchy, decades-old teen comedies as "Porky's" and "Rock 'n' Roll High School" under the banner "Howard Stern Presents."
"I think I represent what National Lampoon once meant to the teen audience," Stern tells Daily Variety. "I'm trying to present something different."
The original "Porky's," produced in Canada in 1981, revolved around a group of male pals and specialized in bare buns and masturbation jokes. It spawned several sequels and introduced audiences to an up-and-coming actress named Kim Cattrall.
"Rock 'n' Roll High School," a 1979 high school comedy produced by B-movie king Roger Corman and containing the behind-the-scenes talents of such future stars Jerry Zucker ("Airplane!) and Joe Dante ("Gremlins"), may be best remembered -- if it is remembered at all -- for its inclusion of the Ramones, a punk band beloved by Stern.
He tells Variety that he would love to use his new "High School" as a launching pad for another up-and-coming group.
"That's the thing that attracts me to ('High School')," Stern said. "Finding a band, working with a record company -- that makes a lot of sense. I'd like to have a 'Singles' type of soundtrack to tap into whatever the next thing is."
Production on both projects is tentatively scheduled to begin next summer.
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