Prahka Lasa is not at all happy about this.

Variety is reporting that Queen Latifah will headline a New Line remake of the 1984 comedy All of Me in which a wealthy but cold heiress is brought back from the dead to live for a while inside the body of her lawyer. Steve Martin and Lilly Tomlin starred in the original, but if you didn’t know that already I’d kindly invite you to go read something else right now.

I guess I’ve ceased to be amazed by Hollywood’s willingness to return again and again to the remake well. After all, those are cheap, easy properties to make and as long as they’ve got personalities like Adam Shankman and Latifah willing to come on board and create a dull, pointless product that will result in a modest return, who are we to argue?

Oh, that’s right – we’re the audience. The ones who are supposed to be voicing our approval with our fancy consumer dollars. Didn’t we collectively give the thumbs-down to The Pink Panther? Didn’t The Hitcher get torn limb from box office limb? Anyone out there want to admit that they thought The Wicker Man was going to be a huge hit?

So I guess what really surprises me is that Hollywood shows no signs whatsoever of slowing this trend down, and it’s truly anyone’s guess where it’ll lead. Before you know it they’ll probably start remaking those awful 80s action cartoons into movies and assigning soulless, edit-happy directors to make them.

Ah, crap.