The classic, 1977 George Roy Hill (“The Sting,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” ) hockey comedy, “Slap Shot,” starring Paul Newman is being remade by those goons in Hollywood fresh out of ideas. Peter Steinfeld is writing and a director is still being sought.
In “Slap Shot,” Paul Newman plays an aged, over-the-hill hockey player and coach who attempts to interest local fans by turning his players into a team of brawling thugs led by the trio of the pugilistic Hanson Brothers (So galvanizing were these louts they inspired Canadian post-punk trio Nomeansno to create an alter-ego band called The Hanson Brothers that played Ramones-style songs about girls, hockey and beer).
According to Total Film, the unofficial announcement by writer Steinfeld last year, provoked “a ruckus last year when he announced he had nabbed the job of writing the script, and there have been plenty of calls for the remake to be cancelled.” Amen. Brooklyn resident should note, “Slap Shot” the original will be on the big screen in mid-March.