It’s pretty clear thatGoldie Hawnisn’t very fond of Hollywood’s penchant for reboots, remakes, and reimaginings. Over the past couple of decades, these kinds of films have been on the rise, and there’s no indication of the trend slowing down anytime soon. Certainly, it was no surprise to see Garry Marshall’s 1987 comedy, starring Hawn and Kurt Russell, getting the remake treatment in 2018. That even followed multiple foreign remakes, as the film was given adaptations in other countries including India, Russia, and South Korea.
In the originalOverboard, which was penned by Leslie Dixon, Hawn plays a wealthy heiress who suffers amnesia after falling from her yacht. She is cared for by a single father whom she hired as a carpenter (Russell) before the accident with the two coming to fall in love. The movie did not light the box office on fire at the time of its release but subsequently garnered a strong cult following, leading to the various remakes that would be made around the world in the following years.
Director Rob Greenberg would take a shot at remakingOverboardin 2018, and original screenwriter Leslie Dixon even returned to pen the script alongside Greenberg and Bob Fisher. Starring Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez, the film featured a very similar plot to the original, but with a key twist. In the remake, the gender roles are reversed, as Faris plays a working-class single mother who takes in a rich playboy who suffers amnesia after falling from a yacht.
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Goldie Hawn Says There’s No Topping Overboard
The newOverboardwas a success when it came to box office revenue, as it banked more than $91 million on a $12 million budget. Those high ticket sales did not come with a very warm reception, however. It was pummeled with bad reviews, landing with a 24% rotten rating at Rotten Tomatoes. Critics weren’t the only ones unimpressed, as Goldie Hawn also feels that the film shouldn’t have been remade in the first place. In fact, as she explains in a new interview withVariety, she’s no fan of remakes at all, believing that all classic films should just be left be by today’s filmmakers.
As Hawn puts it:
“Overboard was really perfect just as it was. Very rarely does a remake match the actual original film. So I’m not a fan of remakes, period. I think that people have put their stamp on their movies, and if they’re classics, they should be left alone.”
These days, Hawn is still involved with Russell, and they’re even still co-starring in movies together. They each appeared in theChristmas Chroniclesmovies at Netflix, and there has beenchatter of a third installmenthappening. In any case, whether or not the threequel happens, perhaps it would be best to never remake the original, going by Hawn’s suggestion.
