Whaaaa?

I was reading the gossip as I am wont to do. I was curious about the last paragraph, so, of course, I googled it. What the who? If it weren't Garrison and Altman, I wouldn't even have given this a fart's chance of being smelt in the lake of fire. Then I find out this is a remake? (Keep in mind that I was about 8 in 1987.) My world has just been rocked.