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Hollywood movie studio Warner Bros said on
Wednesday that a reimagining of the romantic thriller is in
development with a script penned by American playwright Matthew
Lopez.
Lopez is the playwright behind the award-winning "The
Inheritance," a two-part drama about gay men in New York a
generation after the 1980s AIDS epidemic, that opened on
Broadway in 2019.
No details of casting, plot or a potential release date were
given but Warner Bros said that Lawrence Kasdan, the writer and
producer of the 1992 film, will co-produce the new version.
Houston made her movie debut in "The Bodyguard," playing a
singer who is protected from an unknown stalker by a former
secret service agent played by Kevin Costner.
Despite being panned by critics at the time, it went on to
become the second biggest film at the worldwide box office in
1992, and Houston's rendition of Dolly Parton's ballad "I Will
Always Love You" became a classic.
Houston drowned in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub in 2012 after a
long history of drug addiction. She was 48.
"The Bodyguard" would join a string of Hollywood movies to get a
reboot. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper starred in a 2018 remake of
"A Star is Born," and new versions of sci-fi classic "Dune" and
musical "West Side Story" are due for release later this year.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; editing by Diane Craft)
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