Finding a new sub-floor of creative bankruptcy, Sony’s Screen Gems has given the green light to a remake of Look Who’s Talking, the 1989 Amy Heckerling comedy in which a baby never actually talks and you have to settle for just hearing its thoughts, like some bullshit.
Bruce Willis did the voice-over in the original, with Kirstie Alley playing his mother and John Travolta co-starring as her taxi driver turned love interest. The Wedding Ringer’s Jeremy Garelick is already set to write and direct this new take, and he’s reportedly looking to give his version a more diverse cast. Finally, someone is willing to take on the assumption that all baby brains sound like a white guy from Die Hard.
Look Who’s Talking was already followed by two sequels—Look Who’s Talking Too, which added a second baby and the quiet implication of baby telepathy, and Look Who’s Talking Now, which was just a couple dogs thinking things. Unsurprisingly, a reboot was already in the works back in 2010, too. That would have centered on the now-grown baby Mikey having his own baby, which frankly sounds like the more intriguing idea. Because what if the disembodied voice of Bruce Willis still haunts him…?
