Fright Night
Dreamworks is supposedly thinking of remaking the film in 3D. Gaeta/Rosenzweig Films and producer Michael De Luca are nurturing the FRIGHT NIGHT remake rights and are currently looking for a writer and director.
Another to miss for me until the 2D version on DVD.
An American Werewolf in London
Here's what John Landis had to say about it in a recent interview. "Yes, Dimension is now in negotiation for the 'An American Werewolf in London' remake rights. Perhaps someone will make a brilliant movie out of it," he continues talking about the incredible Blu-ray transfer for the original film, "regardless, my film comes out on Blu-ray this summer and looks amazing. I was afraid the digital cleaning of the negative would result in too clear a picture and hurt Rick Baker's make-up, when in fact the incredibly crisp detail actually makes Rick stuff look even better!"
The Gate
H20 Motion Pictures has finally received financing for their forthcoming remake of THE GATE, which will be shot in 3-D by actor-turned-director Alex Winter.No word on any casting yet. The original, which starred Stephen Dorff, followed three young children who accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally taking over the Earth.
The Orphanage
Actor-turned-filmmaker Larry Fessenden (WENDIGO) is set to direct the American remake of Juan Antonio Bayona's 2007 well-reviewed Spanish-language supernatural thriller EL ORFANATO that New Line Cinema is producing says The Hollywood Reporter. Guillermo del Toro, who produced the original, will serve in the same capacity and will co-adapt Sergio G. Sanchez's original script with Fessenden.
Don't touch this? and Del Toro is a producer on the remake?!?!
Originally posted by MildPossession
Faces of DeathThe Dread Central web site interviewed director JT Petty about the release of his latest film THE BURROWERS on DVD April 21st, and he gave them the skinny on what direction his proposed remake of FACES OF DEATH will be taking.
"It looks like FACES OF DEATH will be the next project of mine to get the green light," Petty told them. "I'm not really big into 'camp'. I think horror definitely wants to be funny, but I think camp is explicitly not horror. Making bloodletting safe is basically what camp is about. It's a fine thing to do, but I'm just not interested. So basically what I'd love to do with FACES OF DEATH is make something that's as scary for me to watch now as a thirty-two- year-old as the original was for me to watch when I was twelve. I remember not watching that movie because I was so scared of the fact that you're watching people really die. It's impossible to have that feeling once you're a grown, jaded horror fanatic, but the closest we can get is kind of what we're all chasing."
"What is still effective about FACES OF DEATH is that all of that actual autopsy footage which is so obviously real leaves you so unbalanced that anything that they're showing you around that has this weird kind of effect," JT continues. "Being that it's sharing footage with that honest footage lends it a unique kind of effectiveness. A lot of what we want to do with the remake is playing with what's real and what's not in terms of what you're seeing. There is an interesting line to draw between real violence and fake violence. Like how much more perverse is it to sneak real violence into a big Hollywood movie and disguise it as a special effect than making any underground horror film that you can make? Or making people curious about if what they're seeing is real or not."
"The whole trick of FACES OF DEATH is that there's no reason to make the original FACES OF DEATH now," Petty adds. "Like if a twelve-year-old kid wants to watch people die, they can just go online. They can watch Saddam Hussein die, so you don't care about some redneck alligator warden in Florida. The fact that that's so easy for kids or anyone to see now -- in fact it takes an effort not to watch people die now -- seems so much more frightening than this original collection of so-called stuff."
Big deal, we had a real life autopsy on a main television channel here in England a few years ago... so that will be nothing new.
it wasnt england,, it was british tv,, i watched it in scotland
😛
I could have sworn there was a Children of the Corn topic here, oh well, anyway they are making yet another Children of the Corn film:
SCREAM 3 writer Ehren Kruger has been hired to pen a new adaptation of Stephen King’s tale, which has already inspired the 1984 New World release, several Dimension-issued sequels and a redux that hits the Syfy channel and DVD this fall.
Well Nathan/Deathbycorn isn't here to talk about it for another week or so...
Unfortunately, some Suspiria remake news:
In a brand new article on Variety, news was reported that plans are still underway for a remake of SUSPIRIA, which is to be produced by Italian helmer Luca Guadagnino (I AM LOVE). "Guadagnino also said plans are on track for his First Sun shingle to produce the long-in-gestation remake of Dario Argento's 1977 cult hit. It will be helmed by David Gordon Green with a 2010 shooting date." No other details were given, but at least they confirm it's still in the cards for the near future. In the original Suzy Banyon, a young American ballet dancer who arrives at a prestigious European dance academy run by the mysterious Madame Blanc and Miss Tanner. But when a series of bizarre incidents and horrific crimes turn the school into a waking nightmare of the damned, Suzy must escape the academy's unspeakable secret of supernatural evil.