The movie Troll may top my list of favorite cult classic movies. If it’s not at the top it’s only because Bruce Campbell has it trumped somewhere. I mean, the movie has everything: Julia Louis Dreyfuss as a wood nymph. Sony Bono as a swinger. And who knew that June Lockhart looked so hot when she took her hair down? Plus, the movie has added camp value now that the hero’s name (Harry Potter) has become so significant. The sequel, which had nothing to do with Troll or trolls at all was useless, but Troll is cool.

As with all things cool, now the Hollywood machine wants to get their claws on it and remake it. Modernize it. Contemporize it. Reinvent and reuse. At least that’s the news Bloody Disgusting has managed to acquire. Unfortunately, all they’ve gotten their hands on so far is the following plot, which shows a little bit of how the story will be changed:

”The film is about a young boy enters a parallel world of wizards and magic where he befriends a good witch. Soon the boy learns that he must save the world from an evil Troll/Wizard that has the ability to hide his essence within the bodies of others.”

That’s actually not that different from the original, except that he doesn’t enter the parallel world until the final battle and he befriends someone who turns out to be a good witch, and the troll wizard isn’t hiding his essence in the bodies of others as much as he’s rebuilding his kingdom. But you know, besides that everything is the same (sheesh). I just hope someone puts their foot down and makes a ballsy move by keeping the family names the same. Sure, viewers will rip them apart for the Harry Potter reference, but then they can point out they had the name first.