Tim Curry Joins Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show Revival
John Squires
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Headed to Fox this coming fall is a 2-hour television event that will serve to reboot 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and if you’re not yet on board for a new take on an old favorite, well, we’ve got some news today that might sway your opinion on this one.
The Wrap reports that Tim Curry, the original Dr. Frank-N-Furter, will return to the campy horror musical as the Criminologist Narrator. Fox Television Group chairmen and CEOs Gary Newman and Dana Walden made the announcement today at a Television Critics Association panel.
“I am very happy and excited to be a part of this new event,” Curry said in a statement.
If Curry is on board, then so am I!
In the small screen reimagining for Fox, sweethearts Janet Weiss (Victoria Justice) and Brad Majors (Ryan McCartan) stumble upon the bizarre abode of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Laverne Cox), a sexually ambiguous, flirtatious mad scientist. He is holding an annual Transylvanian science convention to showcase the birth of “Rocky Horror” – a fit, attractive man (Staz Nair) created solely to fulfill Frank’s desires. “Penny Dreadful’s” Reeve Carney will play Riff Raff, one of Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s loyal servants, while Adam Lambert has been cast as Eddie, the rock-n-roll loving ex-delivery boy.
Lou Adler, Gail Berman, and Kenny Ortega are executive producing. Ortega will direct and choreograph.
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