Welcome back Kotter to be remade - with Ice Cube as lead?

[The Straight Story]

Going to be an interesting show I think....

Anyone here old enough to remember that show?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11864524/

NEW YORK - Former “Welcome Back, Kotter” creator-star Gabe Kaplan says rapper-actor Ice Cube is a great choice to play his old role in the big-screen remake of the hit 1970s TV series.

In an interview that was to air Thursday, Kaplan tells “Access Hollywood” he thinks Ice Cube “is the perfect guy... He has shown what kind of crossover appeal he has.”

In the TV original, Kaplan portrayed compassionate teacher Gabe Kotter, who returns to his former Brooklyn high school to teach a new generation of troublemakers, including John Travolta’s Vinnie Barbarino.....

[ChoralScholar]

1. heeeeyyy.. Mister kot-TER

I'm not real sure about Ice Cube, but he was good in Anaconda. (well, as good as you could be in THAT movie)

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2. That was a movie? I thought it was bad infomercial for swamp land

I dunno, I see robin williams in the role sort of. Wonder if they will remake mork n mindy?

[ChoralScholar]

3. Since no one has any original frickin' ideas for movies anymore,

I suppose we'll have to sit through re-makes of

Mork and Mindy
Taxi
Alice
One Day at a Time
Three's Company
and
WKRP in Cincinnati

Although I wouldn't mind seeing that last one.