Somehow I don’t see this is a remake or anywhere similar to the original television show starring Robert Young.  Yet, Variety reports that New Regency and 20th Century Fox are teaming to turn the classic TV series “Father Knows Best” into a feature. A rights deal has been closed, and Chad and Dara Creasey have been set to write the script.

It’s being reported that the film is being contemporized involving a father whose modern-day parenting displeases his more traditional father, who comes to live with the family.  Both fathers have a conflict on which father knows best. That does not sound like the original television show does it folks.

Hollywood has long been attracted to the idea of making a film out of the series that starred Robert Young. “Father Knows Best” began on NBC radio in 1949, moved to TV in 1954 and ran until 1960, when Young called it quits even though the show was peaking in popularity.

A little more background information, Universal tried to make a film in 1994 with a script by Brokeback Mountain scribes Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, with Young serving as a consultant. That didn’t pan out, and the project was refashioned as a comedy in 2003 by Paramount and Nickelodeon, which once had Tim Allen attached to play the dad, with a script by Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir.