Craig Brewer takes over for Ryan Gosling on suddenly-less-sexy Idolmaker remake
Securing his position as the new go-to guy for remakes of ’80s movies about singing and dancing and so forth, Hustle & Flow director Craig Brewer has decided to chase his basically scene-for-scene Footloose update with a modern take on Taylor Hackford’s The Idolmaker. The original, which starred Ray Sharkey as a rock promoter loosely based on Bob Marcucci, is one of several Reagan-era properties MGM has been trying—and, in some cases, succeeding—to carbon copy for a new generation of moviegoers.