Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead Is Getting a Self-Described ‘Diverse Remake’

But make it diverse. Photo: Warner Bros.

Adam Smith’s theory of the “invisible hand� dictates that under free-market capitalism, supply and demand for goods will reach an equilibrium, naturally. Now here’s a challenge to that theory: Deadline reports that the 1991 Christina Applegate film Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead is getting what production company Treehouse Pictures is calling a “diverse remake.� Were the people demanding — clamoring for, even — a remake of Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead? Probably not. But the market sure is supplying it. According to the article, “diverse remake� is actually marketing code for the movie centering on a black family. So not “diverse� like Captain Planet or the Burger King Kids Club. “Diverse� like the way marketers use “urban.� Got it. Treehouse president Justin Nappi said, “We look forward to bringing audiences a new interpretation that is as funny and outrageous as the original but also smart and connected to the world today.� Executive producer Michael Phillips calls it “fresh and modern.� Honey director Bille Woodruff is attached to direct the present-day remake.