You read that right! Director Jon M. Chu along with producer Jason Blum is heading up the new movie and will be doing their best to stay true to the original 80s hit!

First, a Jem primer, because what little people seem to remember of the show is a gaggling girl-band cartoon rendered in infrared pastels, with an emphasis on “glamour and glitter, fashion and fame,” as the show’s theme song goes—Barbie on acid, for short. But just beneath that surface is a third-wave feminist, science-fiction high-fashion narrative that serves up a “play nice” moral through a glamorous battle of the bands.

Jem and the Holograms