Ok so I'm just going to throw out there what everyone is thinking: WTF is going on with Justin Bieber and Mark Wahlberg???
Several months ago Wahlberg was recruiting the Beebs for a basketball movie. Strange as that was now there's another curve being thrown moviegoers way.
Apparently Bieber, for some inexplicable reason is obsessed with the 1996 dark thriller Fear starring Mark Wahlberg. Although the film came after Wahlberg's other two films Renaissance Man and The Basketball Diaries*, Fear elevated Wahlberg out of Funky Bunch status and into the limelight. His next role was the classic Boogie Nights and as they say the rest is history.
According to Movieweb, Bieber wants to acquire the rights to remake Fear and tone it down to a PG-13 rating. (natch!) Currently there are no plans to remake Fear or if Mark Wahlberg will in any way be involved.
Bieber's desire to remake this movie makes about as much sense as Garth Brooks doing that terrible Chris Gaines album back in the 90s. The basic problem here is that when Wahlberg took this role he was a jacked badass that oozed testosterone and brought a sense of menace to the character. Justin Bieber is a skinny little bitch who looks like a girl and couldn't intimidate a decrepit cat with social anxiety disorder. I just don't see how this works. I'd like to think this won't happen but Bieber, remakes, and PG-13 ratings are "the thing" in Hollywood so it probably will.
Can a remake of Howard the Duck starring the Jonas Brothers be far behind?
*Sorry that should read BFFs and incidentally if none of you have every checked out The Basketball Diaries you really need to. Fantastic film.
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