Rentaghost is going to be a Hollywood film

[brokenwingedflier]

I do hope that they respect the original.

And Ben Stiller will be in it which makes me happy! However if they bodge this I will cry - especially if they get Timothy Claypole and the theme tune wrong

NOooooooooooooo! They'll ruin it, Ben Stiller or no Ben Stiller!!!

Noooooo, that's shite :( No one in Hollywood is fit to lick Timothy Claypole's bell toed shoes.

Maybe Audrey from Corrie will get her old role back?

Can't remember exactly who she was in Rentaghost but she was there!

Timothy Claypole, he was fab!

Miss Popov?

classic

Ohhhh Rentaghost - I can almost remember the entire lyrics to the theme!

Yes! Miss Popov!

If your mansion house needs haunting just call Rentaghost / We've got freaks and fools and creeps and ghouls at Rentaghost / Hear the phantom of the opera sing a haunting melody / Remember what you see is not a mystery at Rentaghost

Rentaghost

they'll ruin it.

i cannot abide Ben Stiller and he will ruin it.

I cannot imagine that Hollywood would do justice to this as a film.

who will play the grumpy neighbour i wonder?

Robert DeNiro?

was i the only one to think rentaghost was blardy boring

the programme itself was, but bits in it were great.

sa, there was nothing else on in those days. in those days it was an anarchic gold standard. now there is youtube/freeview/sky. Judge it of its time. What were you doing? Turning your televisionoffanddoingsomethingmoreinterestinginstead?

can they keep the theme tune?

I love that song.

....If you think your house is haunted then call Rentaghost...

this is a joke, right?

...right?

From IMDB

For those of you who can remember the kids BBC series called Rentaghost (it ran from 1976-84) the idea of a Hollywood remake was a surreal enough to begin with, even with Britain?s very own US import Russell Brand in the lead. But now news from Deadline has Ben Stiller taking over from the comic, with Night At The Museum writers Tom Lennon and Robert Ben Garant also attached.
The original show (located in South Ealing) involved the titular agency run by a recently deceased loser by the name of Fred Mumford, who helped similarly below-par spirits find work in the afterlife. Although this is an American remake, the setting will still be good ole? Blighty as the idea is for Stiller to play an American turnaround consultant who is sent to the UK to reinvigorate a failing company.

now, Russell Brand could go Claypole, imo

The real Mr Claypole (Michael Staniforth) passed into ghosthood some time ago at the depressingly early age of 44.
Personally I think it started off as a brilliant series when there were just the three of them but went downhill when the ghost workforce increased.
I don't think the remake can ever be as good.

hoh yes, Nadia Popov and that horse (?I think) signalled its decline

I have coveted that handbag for many years, I wonder if they'll market one as a spin-off?

I totally loved Rentaghost. Russell Brand would be marvellous as Mr Claypole - think he turned it down though

Don't think I'll be watching it. Rentaghost gave me a terrible nightmare once (was only little when it was on).

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He was my first and biggest crush - I can't think of any Hollywood actor worthy of the part, certainly not Ben Stiller!