The Hollywood blogs and rags report that director Brett Ratner is in talks to remake The Incredible Shrinking Man, playing it for laughs with Eddie Murphy in the leading role as a Vegas magician under a curse that will shrink him to nothing unless he can reverse the spell.

Sounds like a far cry from the 1957 original, an old-fashioned, Cold War nuclear scare flick in which everyman Grant Williams passes through some sort of radioactive glitter before starting to shrink - not the best classic movie of its genre by a long shot.

So, despite the fact that Eddie Murphy has made more box office misses than hits, he can be a very funny man. This could actually be a better movie than the original -- not something you'll hear from me very often!