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08/23/2004 Archived Entry: "Ellen to star in 'Oh, God!' redo"

Posted by steve @ 01:42 PM EST [Link]

SOMETHING MAKES ME THINK IT WON'T BE AS GOOD AS THE PASSION WAS: Proving that Hollywood can pick over any corpse for new material, it's been announced that Ellen DeGeneres will play God in a remake of the 1977 flick "Oh, God!"

Talking about the idea to cast her in the role made famous by George Burns, producer Jerry Weintraub told Variety: "Ellen is a strong comedienne and she has always done material about God and questions about God. She will help us with the writing, and using her will allow us to do a proper 2005 view of 'Oh, God!' that is hip and modern."

Hip and modern are two words I certainly associate with DeGeneres. The original wasn't Hamlet but it was funny (God: "I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me me."). Why does it need to be remade?