Get Ready to Sing the Blues: Adventures in Babysitting Is Getting a Reboot as a Disney Channel TV Movie

Don’t FUCK with Adventures in Babysitting!

Adweek reports the Disney Channel is working on a reboot of the classic Adventures in Babysitting. The 1987 original was directed by Chris Columbus (Harry Potter) and starred Elisabeth Shue as the babysitter and Vincent D’Onofrio as Thor. I mean, Dawson, the mechanic.

Here’s what they know so far:

The TV movie will feature two different babysitters (Sabrina Carpenter and Sofia Carson, the latter of whom is getting a major Disney push with this flick and the upcoming Descendants) with a script by Tiffany Paulsen and direction by John Schultz. The title, Further Adventures in Babysitting, implies it’s not so much a remake as a rather belated follow-up. No word on whether or not Elisabeth Shue will be involved.

TVbytheNumbers says writer of 2007’s Nancy Drew film, Tiffany Paulsen, will provide the script and that it should air sometime in the Fall of this year or early 2016. Besides starring as Maya on Disney Channel’s Boy Meets World sequel series Girl Meets World, Carpenter also recently starred in Horns.

I am beside myself. I’ll just leave you with these.

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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