Robbie Williams to destroy 'Saturday Night Fever'

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70's flick Saturday Night Fever has got something of an unfair reputation. Far from being the cheesy dance-marathon that the people who organise 'School Disco' nights would have you believe, its actually a dark slice of drama with one of the most unsympathetic leading characters in mainstream cinema.
Not that this means anything to The Bee Gees (CDs), though.
In a move which will surely delight Bacardi-swilling checkout girls, the remaining Gibb brothers are rumoured to be hatching plans of a 'big-budget remake', featuring none other than gurning pantomime simpleton Robbie Williams (CDs).
God only knows what sort of celluloid nightmare these rumours (if true) are going to throw up. Whereas Travolta played his original part with sneering and vicious gusto, chances are that ickle Robbie's legions of PR people will want their dullard employer portrayed in a more sympathetic light.
In short, hecklerspray says: expect awfulness.
Horrifying questions arise. Where is this epic going to be set? Are we to see the inner-city coolness of the original replaced by somewhere thoroughly British - you know, some godforsaken town centre where any visiting aliens would instantly assume the place was acting as some sort of Scum Breeding Program? Like Watford?
Of course, the alternative beckon. If it is set in the States, we may well be treated to Williams attempting an American accent. And - seeing as his idea of performing consists of raising an eyebrow and nodding in time to the music - something tells us that his thespian abilities may not be in the Olivier category.
Still. Maybe hecklerspray has misjudged the cinema-going mood a little. It could be said that we don't always have our finger on the national pulse. Many people, for example, like to refer to young Robbie as a loveable 'cheeky chappie'.
Whereas we just prefer the term 'cunt'.
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[story by C J Davies]'