Wow, a lot of remakes and sequels coming out this year. Can’t someone ever come up with an original story these days? Dimension Films just acquired the rights to remake the first “Short Circuit”, the film was made in 1986 starring Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens and Ally Sheedy.

A family comedy film about a robot named Number 5 who is owned by a company called Nova, after No. 5 gets struck by lightning, his machinery causes a malfunction which turns him into a more human robot who talks and moves like a real human being although he is a machine. The robot befriended a woman named Stephanie who is an animal lover who owns a business that saves animals. Steve Guttenberg who played Newton worked for Nova but quit after learning the company wanting to destroy the robot so he helps Fisher Stevens to track down the robot to save him before Nova catches the robot.

The screenwriters who wrote the first two “Short Circuit” films will be writing the remake as well.

Variety Reports:

 http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117983475.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

As long as they still have the same robot and Tim Blaney doing the voice over for the remake, I’ll go see it.

Kev