If you want proof that the '80s are back in a big way, just check out our chat with Greg Mottola about "Adventureland," below. But resurrecting that decade doesn't stop with the suburbia-set dramedy -- this week also marks the lofting of Josh Schwartz into the director's chair for a remake of "Bright Lights, Big City." (Schwartz, the man behind "The O.C." and "Gossip Girl," has already featured BLBC author Jay McInerney in an episode of the latter). And on April 7, "Rock of Ages" comes to Broadway -- a show that, per the AP, thoroughly Styx, Whitesnake, Journey -- the gang's all there.
Meanwhile, there's all sorts of polyester kerfuffle over at Paramount regarding the "Footloose" remake -- is or isn't Zac Efron attached, and will it be greenlit without him? If it never comes to pass, at least we have the 1980s-Hollywood-Hills-set "Gossip Girl" spinoff to look forward to, starring none other than Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy. We miss this version of him ("Quick! What's the meaning of life?!"):
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