The New Cary Grant?

Steve Martin is having a very good year. Not only has his current flick Bringing Down the House just cruised into the top spot at the US box office, but now the host of this year's Oscars is set to fill a role played by the legendary Cary Grant himself. Skilfully riding the wave of this rather unexpected success, Martin has been lined up to star in a remake of Grant's 1937 film Topper about a man haunted by a married pair of madcap ghosts. Securely under the thumb of a forbidding wife for years, he is transformed by the efforts of the do-gooder spectres who thrust him into one adventure after another. So impressed was Disney by the box office success of Martin's current odd couple comedy that despite the movie's critical savaging, they have also retained Bringing Down the House helmer Adam Shankman to direct the spooky proceedings.