Vital-MGM Valley Girl Musical Redo To Become Helmed By Clay Weiner. Who?

EXCLUSIVE: Vital has became a member of MGM’s effort to mount a musical film remake of 1983′s Valley Girl, the film that assisted launch the location of Nicolas Cage. The remake will launch a brand new feature pointing career, because the galleries chose Clay Weiner over numerous well-established helmers who wanted the task. Who's Clay Weiner and just how did this happen? Weiner is really a prolific advertisements director — he helmed the Super Bowl place for Time Warner Cable with Ough Gervais and Mary Louise Parker — but his main credit may be the Nickelodeon film Fred: The Film. He was going to win the Valley Girl job, and the reps could include him among a lot of helmers who met with studio professionals prior to the holiday. Weiner was the only person who spent the 2-week holiday getaway assembling a 3-minute demo reel, taken care of from their own pocket, that featured choreographed dance programs set to some mash-from the eighties tunes that'll be sang within the film. He shown the spirit, design, costuming and camera work that reflected his vision for that film. It told the studio executives everything they have to know. Now, they gave Weiner the task also it was the reel that won it for Weiner. Discussions are actually getting going ahead between your galleries and Weiner’s reps at UTA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. This version of Valley Girl stick to the original story of the punk guy without any money in the wrong side from the tracks who sets his sights on winning the affection of the Valley girl having a loutishly preppy boyfriend. Within the musical, the stars will sing 󈨔s New Wave tunes from bands such as the Go Go’s and also the Cars. MGM continues to be focusing on that one for some time which is now on the steps for success. A script by Amy Talkington has been rewritten by Rachel Marriage scribe Jenny Lumet. And today the film includes a director who, greatly such as the Valley Girl protagonist, transformed lengthy odds through persistence to obtain what he wants. MGM is on the remake tear, because the studio is approaching start dates around the Jose Padilha-directed Robocop, Joe Carnahan-directedDeath Wish, along with a Kim Peirce-directed Barbara.