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You know, it’s been 21 years since Baywatch](Baywatch (TV Series 1989–2001) - IMDb) first bounced onto our television screens (I’m counting its original 1989 launch rather than the 1991 one), so now it’s officially old and retro cool. Which means it’s getting a movie. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount has hired Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka to pen a screenplay for *Baywatch: The Movie *and have so much faith in it that it has a release date of Summer 2011. Jeremy Garelick is attached to direct.
DreamWorks had an eye to making a* Baywatch *movie in 2004, but now it’s over at Paramount where a big screen remake has been brewing since last summer. (I like to think it was the back-up plan in case Star Trek](Star Trek (2009) - Movie | Moviefone)failed. Bring on that other wildly successful tv show!) Paramount insiders insist it won’t be a campy Starsky and Hutch](Starsky & Hutch (2004) - Movie | Moviefone) remake / revamp, but something along the lines of *Charlie’s Angels. *We are meant to be impressed that it will feature “female driven action” but somehow I think it’ll be less about girl power and more about girl bounciness. It will probably walk the line of *Charlie’s Angels *and Top Cow comics, and ostensibly be for girls, but feature a little too much T&A for female comfort.
But hey, I don’t want to be a spoil sport. We all knew what the appeal of Baywatch was and always will be. To be fair, there *were *a few beefcakes to balance it all out. Maybe now that it’s the 21st century, we can get a spin-off movie called Baywatch: Banana Hammocks. If they hire all those cast-off gladiators from Spartacus: Blood and Sand and shirtless werewolves from New Moon](The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) - Movie | Moviefone), it would break the Avatar](Avatar (2009) - Movie | Moviefone)record in one weekend.