h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

After seeing the films "Beetlejuice" and "The Frighteners" it occured to me that a film version of Rentaghost, the seventies/eighties childrens comedy would be a good idea for 'reimagining' on the big screen. It could use the first series as the premise for the storyline, where young Fred Mumford is trying to get to grips with being a ghost (you know the old problems of teleportation, walking through walls and levitation). He sets up his business with a victorian spook Hubert Davenport and a poltergeist, the medieval jester, Timothy Claypole.
Fred is desperate for the business to be successful as he feels that his life has largely been a series of one dissapointment after another.
The first series of Rentaghost was good if a little silly, but later series steadily degenerated into a farcical panto.
I would cast Alan Davies as Fred, with Rowan Atkinson as Hubert and Lee Evans as Claypole in the remake.

I thought Rentaghost too, but I would add some of the later characters too, such as Mrs Popov - I thought that idea was quite good. Claypole was my favourite character and would need careful choice of actor as the original was so suited to the part.

Yes, when the show started, he was just a mischevious character. But as the series continued, he became plain annoying, and too dominant. Remember Tiny Tim, his jesting stick with a small head, and his robotic counterpart? They were the last straw. The invisible horse Dobbin was a good idea also, if overused...