Sweet Transvestite...

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Like many in fandom I hold a special place in my heart for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I've danced the Time Warp at midnight at Keycon and at fanish socials. I've seen the movie more times than I can count.

So when I heard that Fox was going to be remaking RHPS I was, like many, apprehensive. I mean, why mess with perfection? Why take a beloved property and attempt to redo it?

It's a travesty! Right?

No.

After all, the Rocky Horror Picture Show was the film version of the stage play The Rocky Horror Show. True that many of the actors from the original London cast made the transition from stage to screen including Tim Curry, Nell Campbell (Little Nell), and Patricia Quinn. Meat Loaf was in the Broadway production before appearing in the film. Richard O'Brian, who wrote the play, starred as Riff Raff in the London and Broadway productions before reprising the roll in RHPS.


Since then it's been staged hundreds of times around the globe with different interpretations and many different actors portraying the characters. So why is it then that so many people hold the film version sacred?


With Rocky Horror celebrating forty years it's natural that studios wanted to revisit it. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Lets do the Time Warp Again should be viewed as a celebration of the property. The producers of the television event, which premiers on Fox on October 20, 2016, promise that the film will be faithful to the dialogue and lyrics with new orchestrations of the music and it's own visual style.


Listening to "Sweet Transvestite" as performed by Laverne Cox in the roll of Dr. Frank N Furter I found my apprehensiveness disappear. After checking out the trailers I'm looking forward to this new interpretation.

I think that sometimes we, the fans, tend to get possessive about our beloved fandoms and tend to lose focus when it comes to people messing with them.

Let's not forget the ugliness that came with the 2016 version of Ghostbusters. *It wasn't bad people*

We need to let go and allow things to evolve. After all, in all likelihood, this will bring a whole new new generation of fans into the fold. And that's not a bad thing. The original Rocky Horror Picture Show has the longest theatrical release and has been running in theaters for over four decades.

 The sun will rise on October 21st and the world will not have ended. But don't be surprised when you see some young kid walking by singing "...let's do the timewaarrrrp agaiinnn!"

Tell me that thought doesn't make you smile.


~Brother K'Bob

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