Beyer, the director (and sometimes actor, in films that include ''B*A*P*S'' and ''John Q''), has reworked the screenplay with some African-American references, though the material remains essentially unchanged. If all this seems slightly more familiar than usual even for a formula teenage film, it may be because the screenplay (by Michael Swerdlick) had already been used for the 1987 film ''Can't Buy Me Love,'' starring Patrick Dempsey.
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But in his rush to acceptance he has left his old friends behind, a classic movie mistake, since naturally he will need his pals to get him out of the scrape he will inevitably encounter in the final reel of the film, which opens today nationwide.
She asks Alvin to hang out with her cool friends, takes him shopping for Sean John clothes (a blatant commercial plug) and invites him to parties where his nerd friends are turned away at the door.Īlvin does grow more popular, and Paris, chastened for her snobbery, starts to fall for him. Alvin restores the car, and Paris keeps her part of the bargain. But knowing your way around a camshaft doesn't count for much in the buppie environment of Alvin's school, where being a star on the basketball team is the one sure way to attract female attention.Īlvin lures Paris into his debt when she crashes her mother's car, and only Alvin has the technical expertise and the $1,500 in cash needed to make the repairs before Mom gets back from a vacation. The going rate here is $1,500 for two weeks, which is what Alvin Johnson (Nick Cannon), a geeky high school student, indirectly pays Paris Morgan (Christina Milian), the most popular girl in his Long Beach, Calif., high school class, to pretend to be his girlfriend for two weeks.Īlvin, who wears a circa 1972 Afro and clothes that seem to have been gathered from a Robert Hall sample sale, is an accomplished amateur engineer, a finalist in a national contest sponsored by a car company for a new engine design. “A hundred percent.''Love Don't Cost a Thing,'' proclaims the title of Troy Beyer's film, but affection is a little more expensive. The actor mentioned Jordan as a suggestion for a “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” remake as he was probably at the forefront of Cannon’s mind after he saw “Black Panther” and found it to be a “phenomenal movie.” There are already so many superhero movies out and on the horizon, but Cannon knew exactly which character he’d like to play. However, he’s always looking to do more, and one of the boxes he’d love to check off is to play a superhero. He’s making music, hosting his MTV improv series, continuing his work with Nickelodeon and wrapping up the editing for his new film “She Ball,” which he wrote, directed and produced. It was kind of cool.”Īfter remembering the great time he had all those years ago, Cannon took the opportunity to look to what the future might hold for him. Actually, we didn’t start dating until the very end of the movie, so it was actually cool because it allowed the chemistry to actually be real and really work and it was a good time in life, I remember that. “I mean, I started dating Christina Milian from that movie,” he said. Nick Cannon and Christina Milian starred opposite each other in “Love Don’t Cost a Thing.” Photo: Warner Bros. He also took a little trip down memory lane, reminiscing about his time working on the teen rom-com. Cannon’s edition emerged 16 years after the original and it’s now been almost the same amount of time between the reboot and today, making it not completely unbelievable that ideas of a new interpretation of the story might be thrown around eventually.Īll of this talk of the movie’s big upcoming anniversary didn’t just have the “Wild ’n Out” creator and host thinking about a reboot. “Love Don’t Cost a Thing,” starring Cannon and Christina Milian, was an updated 2003 version of 1987’s “Can’t Buy Me Love,” which featured Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson. While there’s nothing in the works, if this ever did get made, it would be a remake of a remake. Jordan to take on the male lead of the proposed movie. “Who would star in it?”Īfter posing the question, he decided to answer it, choosing either Jaden Smith or Michael B. In the age of spinoffs and remakes, every day has people wondering, “Which one will come next?” With the 15th anniversary of Nick Cannon’s “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” arriving later this year, International Business Times asked the star how he’d feel about the flick getting redone.