‘Let’s do the time warp again!’
The Rocky Horror Picture Show – also known as The Rocky Horror Picture Show Event – is a 2016 television film reimagining of the 1975 science fiction horror musical comedy cult film of the same name.
The new film is directed by Kenny Ortega using the original script written by Richard O’Brien and Jim Sharman. It is produced by Lou Adler (who executive produced the original), Gail Berman (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and Ortega.
The film/event will be broadcast on the Fox network on October 20th.
Main cast:
Laverne Cox, Victoria Justice, Ryan McCartan, Staz Nair, Adam Lambert, Reeve Carney, Annaleigh Ashford, Christina Milian, Ivy Levan, and Ben Vereen star. The original Frank-N-Furter himself, Tim Curry, serves as the narrator.
Plot:
Sweethearts Janet (Victoria Justice) and Brad (Ryan McCartan) stumble upon Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s (Laverne Cox) bizarre abode. Frank-N-Furter, a sexually ambiguous, flirtatious mad-scientist, is holding an annual Transylvanian science convention to showcase the birth of Rocky Horror (Staz Nair) – a muscle-bound specimen created solely to fulfill Frank’s desires…
Cast and characters:
- Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
- Victoria Justice as Janet Weiss
- Ryan McCartan as Brad Majors
- Reeve Carney as Riff-Raff
- Christina Milian as Magenta
- Annaleigh Ashford as Columbia
- Staz Nair as Rocky
- Adam Lambert as Eddie
- Ben Vereen as Dr. Everett von Scott
- Tim Curry as the Criminologist
- Ivy Levan as Usherette
