"Pammy" Says "Yes"

The Internet Movie Database reports, via WENN, plans for a movie version of the lifeguard TV drama Baywatch are moving forward:

Hollywood beauty Pamela Anderson will make a cameo appearance in the forthcoming movie spin-off... Anderson, who starred in the lifeguard soap in the early 1990s, is being lined up by David Hasselhoff to appear in the big screen version alongside other Baywatch cast mates, who are yet to be confirmed but could include Carmen Electra, Erika Eleniak, Yasmine Bleeth and Traci Bingham. The movie's director Eli Roth says, "Pammy and the original girls will most likely do cameos in the movie. For the main cast, they want to go with a new crop of hotties. The other producers spoke to Pamela about it and she said she'd love to do a cameo. For me, it just wouldn't be Baywatch without her." Hasselhoff adds, "The film will be set in different locations around the world. There will be lifeguards who are also sent on crime-busting sprees."

There have been rumors going around about a Baywatch movie for years, maybe even as far back as May 2001, when the series ended its 12 year run. And yes, I used to watch the series, particularly during my college days. It was, and still is, perhaps one of the best guilty pleasures, ever produced, and hard to resist. In fact, given the series has such worldwide popularity, and that it had such beautiful...um...uh..scenery...yeah that's it, I'm surprised it took them this long...

I do think that Roth seems an unlikely choice to direct the "epic". Given his penchant for the horror genre, there better not be any zombies, or sea creatures attacking the beach...After all, a film about lifeguards saving lives at the beach is "serious business", and should be treated with respect (wink, wink).