Misguided Steve Martin to Star in Remake of The Pink Panther

Scariest part of the new Star Wars Movie? The trailer for the new Pink Panther movie they showed before it started.

Why would anyone try to re-imagine The Pink Panther? The same reason Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers kept making them over and over again, I guess. To make money. But Sony just got a look at the new Steve Martin/Shawn Levy prequel to the Panther franchise and pulled it from Summer release and shelved it until February 10th of next year. I'm going to go out on limb and say it's not because they wanted it fresh in Oscar voter's minds. Mike Myers, thankfully, turned the project down. The same for Jackie Chan and Kevin Spacey. Ivan Reitman was going to direct, with Chris Tucker as Clouseau, but got scared when he found out he had signed Tucker and not Chris Rock. What did Steve Martin see that they didn't, or vise versa? At least when former "Soap" star Ted Wass or that Italian freak Benigni tried to jack with the franchise they had the presence of mind to play a character with a different name. Alan Arkin played Clouseau in 1968, but he had just played Harry Roat in "Wait Until Dark" and might have still been mentally unstable. Arkin's Clouseau left such a bad taste in the collective mouth of movie goers and the studio, it would be another seven years before they made another Pink Panther movie (wisely re teaming Sellers with Blake Edwards).