Rocky Horror sequels and other media become a film like its predecessor if the play had become a financial hit, but after multiple false starts, the project has fallen into development hell. In 2009, MTV Films and Sky Movies planned to release a two-hour long remake of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". The remake was based on the original screenplay, was going to feature original songs and was going to be released around Halloween 2009. Richard O'Brien was not involved and did not give the film his blessing. "The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again" is a tribute television film broadcast on
The Rocky Horror Show a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the "Nation's Number One Essential Musicals". As an out-of-work actor in London in the early 1970s, Richard O'Brien wrote "The Rocky Horror Show" to keep himself busy on winter evenings. Since his youth, he had developed a passion for science fiction and B horror movies; he wanted to combine elements of the unintentional humour of B horror movies, portentous dialogue of schlock-horror, Steve Reeves muscle films, and fifties rock and roll into "The Rocky Horror Show". A major theme running throughout the musical is transvestitism, which according to O'Brien was not originally meant