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Van Sant Doing Another Psycho Remake?

Moviehole spoke to writer/director Gus Van Sant about his new film Gerry, starring Casey Affleck and Matt Damon, and the subject of yet another Psycho film came up.

While talking to Moviehole about his new film "Gerry", Gus Van Sant revealed that he is in talks to do another version of "Psycho".

"I'm thinking of remaking "Psycho" again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it – we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting. Viggo Mortensen suggested it. He was married to Exene Cervenka and knows all the right people to get involved – all the right punk rocker etc – so he would definitely be involved if we go ahead.", he says.

Van Sant previously directed a Psycho remake in 1998, with Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche. He also mentioned that his project with John Travolta, Standing Room Only, may still see the light of day down the road.

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this is a sad day

When I read the why god why title of this thread and saw that it was from MacGuffin- I knew it was going to be bad. So I clicked on it, and god damn, I didn't expect it to be this bad.

It was like when David Lynch was asked if he was interested in redoing Twin Peaks he said "God no. Why? It would be like reheating throw up. What's the point?"

Quote"I'm thinking of remaking "Psycho" again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it – we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting.

Which will eventually bring about Psycho 4: The Deconstructionist. You see, the setting is the English department at a Ivy league college and a literature professor...

Well... I'm not as upset about it as everyone else and here's why:

He already did it once, the damage has been done.  If he wants to make retarded decisions and make himself look like an asshole, he can go ahead.

That being said, it is a complete disgrace and he should be hanged.

Absolutley not, this guy has no right to keep remaking it as though it was originally his own.

this is an incredibly stupid idea.

does he know that he's an idiot???


...maybe someone should let him know

Quote from: xerxesdoes he know that he's an idiot???


...maybe someone should let him know

whats his number?

Fortunately, this really sounds like one of those things that directors talk about, but that never happen.

Seriously, doesn't Gus Van Sant have anything better to do?

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Seriously, doesn't Gus Van Sant have anything better to do?

sadly, i don't think he does... look at him, he's always made other people's movies, not even in the sense that he doesn't write them but well, "good will hunting" was at heart the two kids' movie, "finding forrester" WAS "good will hunting."  and he remade "psycho" to show us all how much of a bastard he is. the guy is not even a good technical director.

...okay i think i got that off my chest.

Well, I guess the bright side to this is at least he didn't decide to remake Vertigo.  Of course, I might be speaking too soon.

Quote from: life_boyWell, I guess the bright side to this is at least he didn't decide to remake Vertigo.  Of course, I might be speaking too soon.

Or another bright side is that it would keep him away from ruining and making other movies. He can make all the Psychos he want, nobody is going to take him seriously.

QuoteSeriously, doesn't Gus Van Sant have anything better to do?

According to many sources...Gerry.  Haven't had the "priviledge" ro see it yet...however, the trailer makes it look quite beautiful.  I would be happy seeing Van Sant doing an experimental film...I like experimental film...but good experimental film, and I'm not sure if Van Sant is at the level yet...Well maybe I'll see it at SXSW or something....

Speaking of SXSW, anyone heard about that movie by Bob Odenkirk(of Mr. Show fame).  http://www.melvingoestodinner.com
If I remember correctly, Film Threat liked it...but they also gave The Two Towers 5 of 5 stars.

and michael penn is scoring the film, too...

considering I got into a discussion about the quality of the first remake, which she defended and i hated, I wonder what her thoughts would be on this one. Am I surprised or saddened? Naw, morons are bred everyday in Hollywood these days all in the name of "art".

The great irish author James Joyce always considered art a dirty word, and I am starting to hate the term myself. If you want his great joke aimed at the world of "art", read Finnegan's Wake, or well, try to read it.

~rougerum

So the new Psycho idea was kind of stupid. So what? It was an experiment. He was trying something out and paying homage. OK, so this new idea sounds REALLY stupid... let the man have his fun. I think he makes some really great films, so he can be forgiven. Come on, Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, and To Die For are excellent movies. And let's not forget his appearance in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which I thought was hilarious.

Finding Forrester was excrutiating.

Yeah, but we'd like to see him be great again.  I loved all three of those movies you mentioned.  He doesn't have to piss it all away.

Gus Van Sant's a moron. He's nothing more than a hack. One of the worst directors around right now.

Gus Van Sant / "Gerry"
Interview by Paul Fischer in Los Angeles

Question: Are you sick of defending Psycho?
Answer: No, I'll defend it.

Question: And do you still get asked about it?
Answer: Oh yeah, a lot of people ask about it.

Question: It's probably not something you regret having done, but do you expect a backlash?
Answer: I think we did. You know, I first told Danny Elfman about the idea and he told me that the critics would kill me.

Question: And he was right.
Answer: He was right and I didn't know whether I was going to completely agree with him, but you know, with the idea that perhaps that would happen, I guess it's somewhat like, you know, a protester going in and somebody saying, "well, the police will beat you up," you know, it's noble going in, but it hurts when it happens, you know. And I kind of assumed that might happen There was sort of a misconception which I think was based on a competitive concept. I guess I was competing with an icon and, which wasn't really the case, it was more like, I wanted to make a remake that was not only a film that was sort of not forgotten about, but also a film that where you remake or preserve the intentions of the director and not just, sort of, take the screen play and remake it. That was the practical application of it. I guess there was also the artistic appropriation angle to see what an appropriation of something like that would be like, you know, see if it would actually resemble it or not. And in the end, I don't think it really does. I mean it resembles it mechanically, but it doesn't sort of spiritually or emotionally.

Noble?

The original Psycho will always be PSYCHO, any remake will be a remake, unless something weird happens. I enjoyed the Psycho remake, it's not bad or good...it offers nothing new, but is not boring, and has some level...

The original, on the othe rhand, it's a true masterpiece...I guess what's intersting about this remakes is that they go to prove that film is a medium og "magic"...even if you follow the book up to the very last shot, you can't really remake a film, just do another version, and the results depend more on chance than on planning.

I'm not gonna lie. I enjoyed Van Sant's remake. I liked the look of it and the concept of Vince Vaughn playing Norman Bates. I found it harmless.

But he cannot be serious. How can he not expect people to give him shit when he speaks out about wanting to do a second remake, more or less a punk rock version of the Hitchcock masterpiece. That's just rubbing a classic into the mud. You'd think he would've learned by now (what with the overall negative consensus view from audiences and critics alike).

Dear Gus,

Find another project, dude. Get over 'Psycho' and use your talent to create some thriller of your own, or something.

Using the title of this thread towards another project:

Someone please tell me this is an April Fools joke that has just been reprinted. Sky News reports that according to The Daily Star, the hot to trot couple of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have secured a deal to remake the classic 1942 Bogart movie "Casablanca". Affleck will take the romantic lead as Rick, whilst Lopez will play the former lover who had jilted him but comes back into his later life - married to a French resistance leader. One source said "They are overjoyed at the prospect of being in Casablanca together. It is the chance for them to show how much they love each other through their on-screen chemistry".


Why?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

This is literally, the SHITTIEST FUCKING IDEA for a remake!!!

I mean it... Remake Psycho a million times with punk rockers and fucking aqua-marine soldiers before you put the worst idea for a couple in the worst idea for a remake!

Oh my fucking lord!!!

i am speechless.

i am without speech.

50% chance for Bruckheimer or Michael Bay being involved

Now this I agree on. Blah. At least it'll mean the end of both their careers.

Just now on SNL Weekend update, they said:

"It's rumored that Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck want to star in a remake of Casablanca, this is good for people who enjoyed the original, but wish it were terrible"

Quote from: mogwaiWhy, God, why?!?

cause there is no god

Quote from: mogwaiI think it's too late to stop this movie... I'm sorry if this old news for some but I just want to say that this movie will stink!

When Harry Met Lloyd: Dumb and Dumberer
http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/dumb_and_dumberer/trailer

I have got to say something about this. What a god damn shame. I was hoping for one day a real sequel where everybody returns, but now they have ruined a franchise.

You know, I first heard this on SNL and was shocked. I thought it was a joke. And hopefully it really is.. because I would go as far as to say it would be the second worst remake in the history of the movies, next to a "Citizen Kane" remake (especially if it was to exclude the great photography and special effects of the original)..
lets look at the optimistic side of it... based on Lopez's record, they won't be married long enough to get into the pre-production of it anyhow.

And I was thinking about a better idea of a Casablanca remake.. here it is: If they wheeled out the corpses of the entire original cast and just shot it like that with the original dialogue from the film on the audio track. I guess the only difficult shot would be when Rotting Rick Blaine has to tell the Ilsa Corpse "Here's lookin' at you, kid." I just think technically they're going to have a problem getting a romantic two-shot out of that. But all in all that would be a better remake than Affleck-Lopez.

Also, if or when this remake happens, two actors that come to mind for Peter Lorre's Guillermo Ugarte character are Tony Shalhoub and John Lequizamo.. and I just expect Taye Diggs to be Sam. What an ugly looking movie. I refuse to even think of who would replace Sidney Greenstreet or Claude Rains.

When it comes to admiring the characters in the REMAKE and really feeling the empathy for Affleck and Lopez and the others.. I'm directly reminded of Rick's speech to Ilsa: "I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."

holy shit.... id LOVE to watch a film (not necessarily a casablanca remake) starring dead bodies!!!

This is BS. I don't think Affleck is dumb enough to star in this, unless he's pussy-struck. Lopez is dumb enough.

Warner Bros. Reloads The Wild Bunch

Training Day writer David Ayer has been hired to adapt the Sam Peckinpah classic Western The Wild Bunch for Warner Bros. Pictures.

Variety says that the original film, nominated for an Oscar for best screenwriting in 1970, was set just months before the start of the World War I. Following a band of outlaws on their last robbery along the U.S.-Mexican border, violently operatic pic mixed machine guns and cars with horses and single action Winchesters. The anachronistic band faces a crisis of conscience before their final appointment with history.

The trade adds that the new "Bunch" will be set in contemporary Mexico and deal with a robbery amid the corruption and payoffs of the drug business.

Quote from: MacGuffinWarner Bros. Reloads The Wild Bunch

Training Day writer David Ayer has been hired to adapt the Sam Peckinpah classic Western The Wild Bunch for Warner Bros. Pictures.

Variety says that the original film, nominated for an Oscar for best screenwriting in 1970, was set just months before the start of the World War I. Following a band of outlaws on their last robbery along the U.S.-Mexican border, violently operatic pic mixed machine guns and cars with horses and single action Winchesters. The anachronistic band faces a crisis of conscience before their final appointment with history.

The trade adds that the new "Bunch" will be set in contemporary Mexico and deal with a robbery amid the corruption and payoffs of the drug business.

:sleeping:

This is terrible news. The Wild Bunch was a very bloody and violent movie, but still acted with a structure of a great story. The drive now is exploitation of that violence as if a porno was being made and all elements of a great story gone. Its sad because considering the man doing this, it will try to go for realism but speak in repitition of blah.

~rougerum

needles in my eyes

what have we done to deserve this?

Quote from: cowboykurtiswhat have we done to deserve this?

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It attracted more than 52 million viewers for its finale in summer 2000.

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WE 2/19 -  10.0 Rating, 15 Share
  10.55 Million Homes
2nd Behind ABC

Interesting... what happened on ABC that day?

Quote from: P

Quote from: cowboykurtiswhat have we done to deserve this?

It attracted more than 52 million viewers for its finale in summer 2000.

true -- allow me to refrase -- what have I done to deserve this?

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Quote from: cowboykurtistrue -- allow me to refrase -- what have I done to deserve this?

Quote from: cecil b. dementedcause there is no god

if have seen the light

Another tidbit fitting of this topic:

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: E! reports Bernie Mac will play the father who is upset when he learns his daughter's dating a white man in this comedy remake of the Sidney Poitier/Spencer Tracy classic.

Quote from: cowboykurtiswhat have we done to deserve this?

When To Justin from Kelly came out, not only did a small part of my soul whither away, for but a brief instant, the world stood still and people of all color, nationality, and religion got a whif of the unmistakable stench of--yep, you guessed it--BULLSHIT.

Quote from: MacGuffinVan Sant Doing Another Psycho Remake?

Moviehole spoke to writer/director Gus Van Sant about his new film Gerry, starring Casey Affleck and Matt Damon, and the subject of yet another Psycho film came up.

While talking to Moviehole about his new film "Gerry", Gus Van Sant revealed that he is in talks to do another version of "Psycho".

"I'm thinking of remaking "Psycho" again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it – we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting. Viggo Mortensen suggested it. He was married to Exene Cervenka and knows all the right people to get involved – all the right punk rocker etc – so he would definitely be involved if we go ahead.", he says.

Van Sant previously directed a Psycho remake in 1998, with Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche. He also mentioned that his project with John Travolta, Standing Room Only, may still see the light of day down the road.

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Gus Van Sant just proves yet again that he is a useless twat of a filmmaker, if even the term should be so disgraced as to be applied to him. If this were an even remotely fair world, this fuck-suck would get hit by a bus.

I suggest you read Roger Ebert's review of Gerry if you haven't already, SoNowThen.  It gives a lot of insight into why Van Sant is doing these crazy things.  You may not agree, but at least it helps a bit.

Quote from: MacGuffinVan Sant Doing Another Psycho Remake?

Moviehole spoke to writer/director Gus Van Sant about his new film Gerry, starring Casey Affleck and Matt Damon, and the subject of yet another Psycho film came up.

While talking to Moviehole about his new film "Gerry", Gus Van Sant revealed that he is in talks to do another version of "Psycho".

"I'm thinking of remaking "Psycho" again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it – we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting. Viggo Mortensen suggested it. He was married to Exene Cervenka and knows all the right people to get involved – all the right punk rocker etc – so he would definitely be involved if we go ahead.", he says.

Van Sant previously directed a Psycho remake in 1998, with Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche. He also mentioned that his project with John Travolta, Standing Room Only, may still see the light of day down the road.

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Might be kinda cool to see Exene orchestrate something like this, though. No need for it to be Psycho, necessarily. I can easily picture van Sant doing the same sort of thing Jarman did with Jubilee, just a beautiful of-the-moment mess.

The Vertigo remake will be on its way any time, I'm sure. With Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon. "I look up, I look...Dude! *falls off of stepping stool* Hollywood loves to do remakes of movies because they'll make it modern and the kids dig it.

I'm not saying I like all of these remakes and whatnot, but the plus side is that people won't soon forget some good film history

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     Older television programs are providing numerous sources for remake material.  This trend has been going strongly the past five years and will continue for at least five more, I predict. It sells, and that's the bottom line.

It's such a shame for classic films like Psycho to have to be re-done. I'm sure the Director is a big fan of it and that's cool, but they should have enough respect for the Filmmakers to leave it alone and enjoy it the way it is.

not only does it sell, but the process involved with filming a remake is much more inexpensive. in most cases, the script essentials have already been written. i think certain shallow viewers of such trashy remakes feel that they are getting in touch with their youthful memories... getting reassured that their pasts (or what they feel influenced their pasts) are still a relevant part of them....uh....artificial nostalgia

i don't think that van sant is showing disrespect towards hitchcock, i feel, rather, that he is paying tribute to him. hitchcock's psycho will always remain as the original, and i don't think that any distortion will arise regarding who directed it.

that being said, i give van sant credit (if it's actually in the works) for having the guts to remake make PSYCHO twice in five years...and for conceivably casting exene cervenka

Palm & Arthouse Acquire Guillotine Remake Rights
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures and Arthouse Films have acquired remake rights to the 1975 classic martial arts picture Master of the Flying Guillotine.

The movie starred Jimmy Wang Yu as a one-armed boxer and martial arts expert who is targeted by a blind Shaolin master of the flying guillotine. The film concludes with a fight-to-the-death finale with martial arts experts from around the world showcasing their different styles and techniques.

The remake will be an update of the classic with a hip-hop soundtrack and an urban edge.


MacGuffin's Note: If you have not seen the original, check it out. The DVD is available. It's one of the best of the "Kung-Fu Theater"-type films. The Master of the title is a blind man who uses a hand-held guillotine to throw over people heads and rip them off. Great stuff. I shake my head at the hip-hop soundtrack. The music is already so fuckin' cool it would be such an evil shame to replace it.

More info here. (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0072913)

Fox Searchlight To Remake The Fly
Source: Variety

Fox Searchlight has made a deal to remake The Fly, with feature newcomer Todd Lincoln writing the script and directing.

The studio began setting up meetings with Lincoln for The Fly as they watched their Danny Boyle-directed zombie film 28 Days Later become a summer sleeper hit.

Lincoln is an admirer of the 1958 original and David Cronenberg's 1986 redo and swears he won't fall into that fly-trap of regurgitating a well-worn plot. "I'm one of those comic book sci-fi fans who read the remake announcements and groan," he tells Variety. "This is certainly inspired by the original but it's a total re-imagining." What new things can we expect? "Why, in both films, did the fly never fly?"

Quote from: MacGuffin"This is certainly inspired by the original but it's a total re-imagining." What new things can we expect? "Why, in both films, did the fly never fly?"

:roll:

QuoteThis is BS. I don't think Affleck is dumb enough to star in this, unless he's pussy-struck. Lopez is dumb enough.

:yabbse-thumbup: Agreed!!!!!!!!!

Don't forget, Jon Demme is doing a Manchurain Candidate remake.

As it was said for a lot of other films here, there's no need to remake this movie. Why is an intelligent director like Jonathan Demme remaking a film that he can't make any better?

Another 'FLY' movie? Whats the point? I wonder what they'll add new (other than a 'flying' fly). I bet they'll make the fly creature all CG and shit.....

Quote from: oakmanc234Another 'FLY' movie? Whats the point? I wonder what they'll add new (other than a 'flying' fly). I bet they'll make the fly creature all CG and shit.....

Well they did have CG flies in "Blood Simple"... (or was it animatronic flies?)  :wink:

One of the old classics which defined a genre looks set to get updated and boy are the fans not happy about it. Creature Corner reports that sources inside Dimension Films have revealed the genre production house is "reportedly throwing in exorbitant amounts of money to bring series creator John Carpenter back into the fold...to remake the film that started it all". Yep, you heard right - a modern remake of "Halloween" along the same lines as the upcoming redux of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (if that is a success, expect this baby to pick up a lot of steam). They're apparently trying to get Carpenter to draft and direct a "Halloween" update rather than further the new stream of continuity built in H20 and carried on into "Halloween: Resurrection". All the original's classic characters would be re-introduced including Laurie Strode, Dr. Loomis and of course Michael Myers. Whether Carpenter will join the project has yet to be determined.

Quote from: MacGuffinOne of the old classics which defined a genre looks set to get updated and boy are the fans not happy about it. Creature Corner reports that sources inside Dimension Films have revealed the genre production house is "reportedly throwing in exorbitant amounts of money to bring series creator John Carpenter back into the fold...to remake the film that started it all". Yep, you heard right - a modern remake of "Halloween" along the same lines as the upcoming redux of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (if that is a success, expect this baby to pick up a lot of steam). They're apparently trying to get Carpenter to draft and direct a "Halloween" update rather than further the new stream of continuity built in H20 and carried on into "Halloween: Resurrection". All the original's classic characters would be re-introduced including Laurie Strode, Dr. Loomis and of course Michael Myers. Whether Carpenter will join the project has yet to be determined.

i am probably one of the biggest horror fans on this site.  With that i am very bipolar about this news.  About 85% of me says that Halloween is the greatest slasher flick ever created and anyone who fucks with it and tries to remake it should also be slashed themselves.  Its like why redo something if theres nothing to improve on.  Part of the eeire charm of Halloween to this day is that it looks and feels like and 70s movie. You know?  I could see a remake trying to restylize it and sharpen visuals.  I would hope that a remake would still take place in 78 and not try to modernize it.  I can just see it.  A new looking mask would look akward in those  classic shots.  Why not re-release a special edition in theatres Alien style?

About 15%of me though for some reason says if they can pull it off and draw attention to the greatness of the original than what the hell, go for it.

I mean if they do this whats next huh? a remake of Friday the 13th?  Nightmare on Elm street?  How about a fucking CGI Chucky flipping around on screen.

Well, at least there's one strange rumor being debunked today, according to that "other Australian movie site", Moviehole.net, the possible HALLOWEEN remake that we reported might be a possibility earlier on this week has officially been denied by Dimension Films. "There are no plans to remake Halloween that rumour was incorrect", said a studio rep. They are, however, continuing to look for new ideas for the next installment of the HALLOWEEN series (add more rappers!!) and apparently want to know what you all think at the official Michael Myers website, where you can vote whether you want to see Mr. Wayne's World go up against HELLRAISER's Pinhead in the next round. Don't ask...I just report the news. Anyway, check out Halloweenmovies.com for more on that and pray to God that someone up there doesn't continue this pathetic trend of re-making everything ever made. Man, I only wish I could re-make my teenage years...yeah, yeah, that's the ticket.

Quote from: Bankypray to God that someone up there doesn't continue this pathetic trend of re-making everything ever made. Man, I only wish I could re-make my teenage years...yeah, yeah, that's the ticket.

sorry...but I wanna see His Girl Friday remade....I am not a huge fan of remakes, in fact I normally cringe at this idea (as well as sequels).  But I am so sick of getting suckered into stupid ass romantic comedies.  Attach someone like Adrian Lyne or maybe a Lasse Hallström and I feel this could be a picture worthy of a remake.  

Still, the original holds it own thou.

His Girl Friday itself was a remake of the 1931 film The Front Page based on the play, and was later remade as The Front Page by Billy Wilder with Lemmon and Matthau in the 1974.

Quote from: themodernage02and was later remade as The Front Page by Billy Wilder with Lemmon and Matthau in the 1974.

I knew it was based on a play, but I did not know it was already remade.  wow....is that flick any good?

Lemmon and Matthau...though...shit I feel like a typical 23 year old with not a ton of exposure nor the will to seek out such "could be great" older films.  Thus I rely on you guys to give me da good word...

There are too many pages to read through... But that one movie based on Avril Lavigne's "SK8ER BOIIII" should not be made.

That film that had directed Sean Penn, with Nicholson, Redgrave...Great actors, unbelievebly shitty directing.

Good Boy. Oh, Good Boy, Good Boy, Good Boy.

Dirty Harry: There's been talk of Rambo, Rocky, Indiana Jones and more coming back from their 80's cinematic graves for one last ride - now you might be able to add one more to the list - 'Dirty' Harry Callahan. 'Scorpio's Bitch' played the submissive to some of Warners execs recently and came up with this juicy little gossip tidbit: ""Mystic River" has done pretty nicely for Warner overall, so they're out to utilize Eastwood. They want him to do another "Dirty Harry" movie and have been talking about it with him for a while. The argument is, Eastwood thinks Harry Callahan is too old - he's probably right - to be chasing criminals, but the studio isn't budging. They want another "Dirty Harry" movie. One option - start afresh with a new Dirty Harry. No idea who they'd get, but that's certainly something that's been discussed in the past, remaking that first one again. Eastwood's a great director and I think he's determined to stay behind the camera, but a new 'Harry' might upset people...tough call for now".

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Jinx: The proposed spin-off movie about Halle Berry's character from the recent Bond movie "Die Another Day" has been cancelled by MGM. Variety reports that despite keen interest from long-standing 007 producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, the lion head studio told the pair's Eon Productions to put the film "on ice" and press ahead with the "Bond 21" project due to shoot and release in 2005. Eon is apparently quite upset about all this. Scribes of the last two 007 movies - Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have been working on the "Jinx" script for a while, and helmer Stephen Frears ("The Grifters", "Dangerous Liasons") was set up to direct the feature which would've seen CIA agent Jacinta Johnson (Berry) taking on her own enemies whilst Brosnan was rumoured to be cameoing as Bond in the film. Yet despite the no from MGM, the production company isn't rushing forward with the project at another studio - thus it looks like the Bond girl curse has struck again.

I just saw a trailer for that movie Timeline. I laughed out loud in the theatre. Hard.

to borrow from GDIDM, this looks like it's gonna Suckaroonie.

As I write this, a screening of Timeline with director Richard Donnor in attendance is starting here in Dallas, but my pass is in the trash because not even the presence of the director of Superman could lure me to see Timeline, at 10am no less.

Oh, and on Thank God It's Not Happening level, the Bond spinoff with Halle Berry, Jinx, is officially canceled. YAY!

this is just sick...

Brian Grazer Ready for Cat in the Hat Sequel
Source: Sci Fi Wire Tuesday, November 4, 2003

Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat producer Brian Grazer told Sci Fi Wire that he intends to make a sequel to the Bo Welch-directed adaptation starring Mike Myers, Alec Baldwin, Kelly Preston, Dakota Fanning, Spencer Breslin, Amy Hill and Sean Hayes.

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, also from Dr. Seuss, features the mischievous cat returning on a snowy day when there is work to be done.

Grazer added that members of the cast of the first film are signed to reprise their roles. "Cat in the Hat" hits theaters on November 21.

How is a sequel to The Cat in the Hat this bad already? I must say, The Cat in the Hat itself looks promising to me. Usually things that go on this thread are adaptation of things too "impossible" or "sacred" to adapt. Didn't think Dr. Seuss was any of those. Maybe wait til you see Cat in the Hat before coming out with this.

how about the idea, that the movie hasnt even opened and they have no idea how the public will receive it or whether anyone will actually want a sequel, but since the 'early research' shows that cat is testing well. there are really high numbers, and they're already counting their millions, they've got those goddamn greedy dollar signs looking towards the next movie already.  i hope it blows and makes 1 dollar.

jeez, and you thought my attitude toward Matrix: Revolutions was bad.

The "Cat in the Hat" preview looked fairly dreadful. Can't believe there's a sequel already. Wish Myers would do something else....

Quote from: Find Your MagaliThe "Cat in the Hat" preview looked fairly dreadful. Can't believe there's a sequel already. Wish Myers would do something else....

Absolutely.  He needs to make a spoof of Bond flicks and include a character that says, "yeah, baby" and "let's shag" over 1000 times.  

That would be awesome.  And when I say awesome, I mean totally sweet.

 Why, God, why?????  (http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/m/mybabysdaddy.php)

And how does Anthony Anderson find time to shoot a TV series and still be in 20 movies in a year?

The trailers for Cat In The Hat make me gag.

Quote from: GhostboyThe trailers for Cat In The Hat make me gag.

Yeah, what the hell happened to the Sprockets movie? I was actually looking forward to that. That one had a light that changed from green to red, apparently.

Oh man, that was a huge debacle. Myers and Universal ended up suing each other, shit happened, and The Cat In The Hat is basically the result...

what a horrifying result.

So nobody here will be seeing The Cat in the Hat?

I think I'm the only one who'll be seeing it.

I sort of wanted to see it when I first heard about it, but hearing all this makes me wonder.  The trailer LOOKS good, but they can't seriously think they'll succeed in stretching a children's book into a feature-length film.  The Lorax was one of Seuss's last and best books, and it was made into a GREAT animated short feature (if you call it that).  I shudder to think if they ever try to do a live-action Lorax.  I probably shouldn't have even mentioned it.  Or better yet, The Butter Battle Book.  Someone stop me.  Feh.

The Project Greenlight films should never have been greenlit...

...or the show itself. It is to film what American Idol is to music; a hindrance, not a help.

Quote from: pinkerton310So nobody here will be seeing The Cat in the Hat?

Ha!

Brian Grazer: Covering comedians in several layers of makeup, one Dr. Seuss adaptation at a time.

I'll still be seeing the Cat in the Hat but it depresses me. Carrey and Myers are Canadian idols of mine and grew up about 45 minutes away from me. It's depressing watching them disguised as Seuss creatures with bad scripts.

Then I guess now is a bad time to tell you that Mike Myers is Austin Powers

:o No fuckin' way!

... But Austin Powers was funny. Fat Bastard, on the other hand, got on my nerves after a while.

Quote from: CinephileI'll still be seeing the Cat in the Hat but it depresses me. Carrey and Myers are Canadian idols of mine and grew up about 45 minutes away from me. It's depressing watching them disguised as Seuss creatures with bad scripts.

Next:  Dave Thomas in Hop on Pop.

Bullitt: Channel 4 indicates Brad Pitt will step into Steve McQueen's footsteps in a remake of classic crime/car chase thriller. Pitt will get to work on the project once "Ocean's 12" wraps.


MacGuffin's comment: There's no way they can better that classic car chase. One of my dad's favorite films, along with "Thomas Crown Affair", and both will now be raped by remakes.

Quote from: MacGuffinMacGuffin's comment: There's no way they can better that classic car chase. One of my dad's favorite films, along with "Thomas Crown Affair", and both will now be raped by remakes.

Hehehe, so true...

Mac, I think that's the first time I've heard you shit talk a movie!

Quote from: SoNowThenMac, I think that's the first time I've heard you shit talk a movie!

Guess you haven't been following my comments about "Jeepers Creepers" or any Madonna movie.

:-D


...she was okay in Dick Tracy...

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back: USA Today reports that the sequel will begin filming Summer 2004 for release in 2005. All the principals will be back.

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...she was okay in Dick Tracy...

Actually, it's weird how Madonna can seem okay in a movie where she doesn't really have to act... when she has to "act," though, look out. You've never seen so much posing and declaiming (in lieu of any actual acting) in your life!

ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 Remake

Focus Features will team with Stephane Sperry's Liaisons Films and Why Not Prods. on an updated U.S. version of John Carpenter's cult classic "Assault on Precinct 13," to be distributed domestically by the Universal specialty unit and handled worldwide by its international sales arm.

Inspired by Howard Hawks' "Rio Bravo," the 1976 "Assault" took place in an isolated, nearly abandoned Los Angeles police station, in which officers, staff and prisoners are forced to negotiate a partnership when a vengeful street gang lays siege to the building.

The new version transports the story to the present day, in a police precinct made obsolete by the industrialization of its surroundings. The premise is the same. A bunch of bad guys with serious firepower lay siege to an old police precinct on New Year's Eve, and the heroes inside the precinct (made up of cops and jailbirds) must join forces and stand together in order to survive.

The script is written by James DeMonaco (The Negotiator and the upcoming The Extractors).

Hawke & Fishburne Aboard Assault Remake
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne will star in an updated U.S. version of John Carpenter's cult classic Assault on Precinct 13, to be distributed domestically by Focus Features. The English-language feature is scheduled to begin production on April 5 in Toronto.

Inspired by Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, the 1976 "Assault" took place in an isolated, nearly abandoned Los Angeles police station, in which officers, staff and prisoners are forced to negotiate a partnership when a vengeful street gang lays siege to the building.

The new film, written by James DeMonaco, is set in the present day in a police precinct building that is about to be shut down. During a snowy New Year's Eve, a mobster (Fishburne) is temporarily incarcerated at Precinct 13, the soon-to-close police station. As the sun sets and a long night begins, a motley crew of policemen and prisoners reluctantly captained by a cop (Hawke) must band together to fight off a rogue gang that wants to free the mobster.

Sullivan Throws a Dinner Party at Columbia
Source: Variety

Barbershop 2: Back in Business helmer Kevin Sullivan will direct the Columbia Pictures comedy The Dinner Party, starring Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher

The film is a remake of 1967's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?. Kutcher plays a man marrying a black woman whose father (Mac) is having difficulty coming to terms with the marriage.

Sullivan is also attached to direct the Will Smith/Ryan Phillippe-produced drama White Boy Shuffle for Intermedia Films.

Quote from: MacGuffinBarbershop 2: Back in Business helmer Kevin Sullivan will direct the Columbia Pictures comedy The Dinner Party, starring Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher

The film is a remake of 1967's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?. Kutcher plays a man marrying a black woman whose father (Mac) is having difficulty coming to terms with the marriage.

Wow. I'd go as far as to say that this is one of the most poorly conceived concepts ever.

Quote from: Cinephile

Quote from: MacGuffinBarbershop 2: Back in Business helmer Kevin Sullivan will direct the Columbia Pictures comedy The Dinner Party, starring Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher

The film is a remake of 1967's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?. Kutcher plays a man marrying a black woman whose father (Mac) is having difficulty coming to terms with the marriage.

Wow. I'd go as far as to say that this is one of the most poorly conceived concepts ever.

If my daughter was marrying Ashton Kutcher, I might have a problem with it too.

Quote from: Cinephile

Quote from: MacGuffinBarbershop 2: Back in Business helmer Kevin Sullivan will direct the Columbia Pictures comedy The Dinner Party, starring Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher

The film is a remake of 1967's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?. Kutcher plays a man marrying a black woman whose father (Mac) is having difficulty coming to terms with the marriage.

Wow. I'd go as far as to say that this is one of the most poorly conceived concepts ever.

Are they really saying, "Let's remake _______ but in reverse!"

I just read the plot for Nia "My Big Fat Greek Overrated Comedy" Vardalos' next movie: two women witness a mob hit and hide out as drag queens.  SOME LIKE IT HOT!!!!! BUT IN REVERSE!!!!!  :evil:   :evil:  :evil:

I don't want to see this either but at least this has the promise of Bernie Mac ripping into Ashton Kutcher at every turn.

Quote from: hacksparrowI just read the plot for Nia "My Big Fat Greek Overrated Comedy" Vardalos' next movie: two women witness a mob hit and hide out as drag queens.  SOME LIKE IT HOT!!!!! BUT IN REVERSE!!!!!  :evil:   :evil:  :evil: .

The best part of all that is that all my aunties are gonna go see that and try to tell me how great it is. Nia should be proud that she's now made the short list of ignorant things people say when you tell them you wanna make movies:

"Oh, you wanna be a director.... like Spielberg!!"

um, not really, no, I think I'll be making smaller independent films

"Oh, like My Big Fat Greek Wedding!!"

um, well, kinda edgier, more stylized films...

"Oh, now I understand. Like Blair Witch!!!"

*slaps head*

Quote from: SoNowThenThe best part of all that is that all my aunties are gonna go see that and try to tell me how great it is. Nia should be proud that she's now made the short list of ignorant things people say when you tell them you wanna make movies:

"Oh, you wanna be a director.... like Spielberg!!"

um, not really, no, I think I'll be making smaller independent films

"Oh, like My Big Fat Greek Wedding!!"

um, well, kinda edgier, more stylized films...

"Oh, now I understand. Like Blair Witch!!!"

*slaps head*

If I had a nickel...

Just know that it's not you, it's them.  But if any of them are rich, it wouldn't hurt to bang out a Big Fat-esque script and say that you need the money to make that but take the cash and make something good instead.  My problem is none of my relatives have any money so I have to give that idea to others.

(And I'll tell my mom to say hi to your aunties when she goes to see the Nia Vardalos movie opening day.  :?  )

Byrne & Dennehy Join Assault on Precinct 13
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Gabriel Byrne and Brian Dennehy have joined the cast of Assault on Precinct 13, Focus Features' remake of the 1976 John Carpenter film, says The Hollywood Reporter. Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne topline the project, which is being directed by Jean-Francois Richet.

The new version, written by James DeMonaco, is set in the present day in a police precinct building that is about to be shut down. On New Year's Eve, a mobster (Fishburne) is temporarily incarcerated at Precinct 13, the soon-to-close police station. As a rogue gang tries to free him, a cop (Hawke) must command a crew of policemen and prisoners to defend the station.

The film, which starts production on April 4 in Toronto, also stars Maria Bello, John Leguizamo, and Drea de Matteo.

Quote from: MacGuffinByrne & Dennehy Join Assault on Precinct 13
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Gabriel Byrne and Brian Dennehy have joined the cast of Assault on Precinct 13, Focus Features' remake of the 1976 John Carpenter film, says The Hollywood Reporter. Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne topline the project, which is being directed by Jean-Francois Richet.

The new version, written by James DeMonaco, is set in the present day in a police precinct building that is about to be shut down. On New Year's Eve, a mobster (Fishburne) is temporarily incarcerated at Precinct 13, the soon-to-close police station. As a rogue gang tries to free him, a cop (Hawke) must command a crew of policemen and prisoners to defend the station.

The film, which starts production on April 4 in Toronto, also stars Maria Bello, John Leguizamo, and Drea de Matteo.

Ok, thats it. What movie is yer quote from Mac?

Quote from: MyxomatosisOk, thats it. What movie is yer quote from Mac?

the same as his avatar.

i had a dream that i fucked the shit out of sarah silverman. i wonder where that came from...

where is michel gondry and his wacky theory of dreams when you need him?

her boobs aren't that great--she has them pushup bras to thank.  I saw her in person.

I think after this, we can close this thread.  Because this is the absolute pinnacle of shite.  Words cannot express the horror that this film should evoke in anyone who holds cinema in any kind of high regard.  This is the sort of evil that has to be experienced personally in order to truly understand its magnitude.

This is, undoubtedly, going to be the worst movie... ever.

Keep the Pepto on hand and click here. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/white_chicks/)

::shudder:: I remember seeing that trailer.

Quote from: hacksparrowKeep the Pepto on hand and click here. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/white_chicks/)

i am as appalled as the next guy, but don't they look like they make slightly more convincing chicks than the dudes in Sorority Boys? it's weird. they must've used state-of-the-art transvestite technology.

Wow.

I didn't think I could get that close to slashing my wrists during a trailer.

Quote from: Pubrick

Quote from: hacksparrowKeep the Pepto on hand and click here. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/white_chicks/)

i am as appalled as the next guy, but don't they look like they make slightly more convincing chicks than the dudes in Sorority Boys? it's weird. they must've used state-of-the-art transvestite technology.

If you don't look at them too long, yeah.  Once you start to look closely, it's like looking at Tom Cruise's mask in Vanilla Sky.  

Where's Rick Baker when you need him?

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Quote from: hacksparrowI think after this, we can close this thread.  Because this is the absolute pinnacle of shite.  Words cannot express the horror that this film should evoke in anyone who holds cinema in any kind of high regard.  This is the sort of evil that has to be experienced personally in order to truly understand its magnitude.

This is, undoubtedly, going to be the worst movie... ever.

Keep the Pepto on hand and click here. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/white_chicks/)

Are you talking about the "Assault on Precint 13" remake because, if you are, here is some more (I think) horrible news.

Source: Hollywood Reporter
More casting news on the Assault on Precinct 13 remake. Rapper Ja Rule has joined the cast, which also includes Ethan Hawke, Don't Call Me Larry Fishburne, John Leguizamo and Drea DeMatteo.

*(wipes brow)  whew, i am relieved.  for a second there i thought they might not have a rapper acting in this.  and i like my movies with acting rappers, thank you very much.

Paramount Will Catch Another Thief
Source: Variety

Paramount has set up a modern remake of Alfred Hitchcock's romantic thriller To Catch a Thief with Original Film partner Neal Moritz (2 Fast 2 Furious, S.W.A.T.) producing and Todd Komarnicki writing, reports Variety.

The new version, set in Miami, will leave the basic storyline from Hitchcock's film intact. A reformed jewel thief scrambles to clear his reputation while being framed for a series of elaborate robberies from the super-rich.

The 1955 release starred Cary Grant as an American expat on the French Riviera who falls for a wealthy American, played by Grace Kelly, as a rash of jewel thefts breaks out.

remakes, remakes, all remakes... all books... all comics... all shit... no orginal ideas... no risks... what the fuck is happening to this industry damnit!!!

books and comics are good (sum would argue shit is too), remakes are not.

what's happening is ........ -.-.-..-..-.-..-.. believe me, YOU DON'T EVEN WANNA KNOW.

Oh.. I want to get in on the action.

Here is a film..

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Don't call it industry.

Quote from: StefenDon't call it industry.

thats what everyone calls it... thats what it is... talk about independent films and say whatever you want... hollywood is an industry

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whats the deal with my head... its empty?  :shock:

wow.

?????

Cedric the Entertainer Goes Back to School
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cedric the Entertainer will star in MGM's remake of the Rodney Dangerfield comedy Back to School. David Ronn and Jay Scherick are writing the script.

The new version will be based loosely on the 1986 Orion Pictures comedy, which grossed 91.3 million domestically. Co-written by Dangerfield, the film followed the exploits of a fun-loving businessman who enrolls in college alongside his disheartened son to help him get through school.

Cedric can currently be seen in Johnson Family Vacation and is shooting MGM's Be Cool, the sequel to Get Shorty. He next appears in Paramount Pictures' Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and will also star in Paramount's remake of The Honeymooners.

that is definetely in the right thread

http://xixax.com/viewtopic.php?t=6255

A remake of Back to School? And I thought It was already good enough as-is. Silly me. I should have known it needed a nice refreshing splurge of black comedy.

I think they should have a part where they sing along to an 8 month old rap song

Quote from: MacGuffinCedric the Entertainer Goes Back to School
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cedric the Entertainer will star in MGM's remake of the Rodney Dangerfield comedy Back to School. David Ronn and Jay Scherick are writing the script.

.thats stupid to even call this a remake....why not just take the basic plot of 'back to school' and make it accessible to the same audience who would see 'barbershop'.and that way they could call it their 'own'......b/c its not like someone there who sees this is going to be like ."yo dog!! peep this  sh*t, cedric is paying homage to rodney dangerfield in this movie."............

just like the 'remake' of cant buy me love........i doubt the audience knew the original.

like Johnson Family Vacation?

Quote from: themodernage02like Johnson Family Vacation?

fo sheezy!

WOLFGANG PETERSEN CONFIRMED IN THE REMAKE OF 'BULLITT'
Source: Variety
Date: June 11, 2004, 10:52 am

Variety confirms that "Troy" director Wolfgang Petersen and Warner Bros. are in fact planning to remake the 1968 hit Steve McQueen drama "Bullitt."

The crime caper, centered on tough-guy detective Frank Bullitt, will be contemporized by Cynthia Mort, who scripted drama "The Brave One" for WB and producer Joel Silver as well as "F*ck Me Please," a Pariah-produced hour pilot for HBO about sex and relationships.

Radiant Prods.' Petersen and Diana Rathbun will produce the pic along with Peter Vincent Douglas. Radiant's Sam Dickerman will exec produce, and Chad McQueen, the late actor's son, will be a co-producer.

The New York Post had originally printed the story in their 'Page Six' column back in November of last year. In the article, Brad Pitt was mentioned as being interested in starring in the remake.

The remakes keep on comin'...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Ronny Yu Helming Snakes on a Plane
Source: The Hollywood Reporter Monday, June 28, 2004

Freddy vs. Jason director Ronny Yu will next helm the thriller Snakes on a Plane for New Line Cinema, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The film centers on a ruthless assassin who unleashes a crate full of lethal snakes aboard a packed passenger jet over the Pacific Ocean in order to eliminate a witness in protective custody. The rookie pilot and frightened passengers must band together to survive.

The John Heffernan and David Loucka script was first set up at MTV Films before making its way to New Line, adds the trade.

Quote from: themodernage02HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Ronny Yu Helming Snakes on a Plane
Source: The Hollywood Reporter Monday, June 28, 2004

Freddy vs. Jason director Ronny Yu will next helm the thriller Snakes on a Plane for New Line Cinema, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The film centers on a ruthless assassin who unleashes a crate full of lethal snakes aboard a packed passenger jet over the Pacific Ocean in order to eliminate a witness in protective custody. The rookie pilot and frightened passengers must band together to survive.

The John Heffernan and David Loucka script was first set up at MTV Films before making its way to New Line, adds the trade.

hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1..thats phucking  stupid............

the best part is that this films premise is so phucking dumb even mtv films wont back this up............

oops.  nothing much *whistles and walks to actors forum.

*coughActorsForumcough*

Are you guys siamese twins or something? I know modernage aspires to be mini mac but this is a little much, have some restraint, damn.

umm... what the hell are you talking about?

What are you talking about?

haha, mac, i need your help. Hook a brutha up with some Carlitos Way: The Beginning news. Jay Hernandez still in as Carlito?!!

Quote from: Stefenhaha, mac, i need your help. Hook a brutha up with some Carlitos Way: The Beginning news. Jay Hernandez still in as Carlito?!!

Carlito's Way prequel on way
Friday September 24, 2004

We seem to hitting a gangster prequel phase. Following confirmation that Antoine Fuqua is to go back and reveal the early days of Al Capone in The Untouchables: Capone Rising, it looks like Charlie 'Carlito' Brigante is coming back to the silver screen too.

Michael Bregman is to direct Carlito's Way: The Beginning from his own script with Jay Hernandez (Torque) playing the Puerto Rican gangster made famous by Al Pacino in Brian De Palma's 1993 film. The movie will chart Carlito's rise from his early days in Spanish Harlem to the '70s mob scene.

Luis Guzman will reprise his role as Pachanga, the man who finally bumped off Pacino's incarnation of Carlito, in the film.

Thanks mac, this movie will be a 3/5.

Quote from: MacGuffin"Luis Guzman will reprise his role as Pachanga, the man who finally bumped off Pacino's incarnation of Carlito, in the film."

Didn't John Leguizamo kill Carlito?  I haven't seen the movie in years so I'm kind of hazy.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

From Variety:

"Spider-Man 2" director Sam Raimi and original producing partners Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell are reteaming to produce a remake of the cult hit "The Evil Dead" through Ghost House Pictures, the joint venture of Raimi, Tapert and Senator Intl.

Raimi wrote, directed and produced the 1981 "Dead," which tells of five twentysomething friends holed up in a remote cabin who discover a Book of the Dead. When an archaeologist's taped translation of the text and its incantations is replayed, the youths unwittingly summon dormant demons that possess them.

Raimi will not direct the remake, so Ghost House is looking for a helmer to reinvent the franchise before a script is written.

Original pic spawned subsequent installments "Evil Dead II" and "Army of Darkness."

"Dead" will be fully financed by Senator Intl., which will hold worldwide rights to pic. ExecExec VP of motion pictures Nathan Kahane will oversee the pic for Senator.

" 'The Evil Dead' is such a special film to Sam, Rob, Bruce and horror fans that we are going to take great care in renewing this franchise," said Joe Drake, Senator Intl. prexy. "By keeping its original formula intact and given audiences' appetite for horror, we expect that we'll have a real hit on our hands."

Pic follows Ghost House's first horror release, "The Grudge," which has grossed more than $100 million worldwide to date.

Senator and Ghost House are developing a sequel to "Grudge."

Other upcoming pics include "Dibbuk Box" from the Pang brothers; "Scarecrow"; "30 Days of Night," in partnership with Columbia; and "Boogeyman," to be released by Screen Gems in February.

Quote from: sphinxand michael penn is scoring the film, too...

:roll: this way,actually i'm kinda more intersted in it

Quote from: evaderhead

Quote from: sphinxand michael penn is scoring the film, too...

:roll: this way,actually i'm kinda more intersted in it

just so u know, u quoted and responded to sumthing more than a year old. closer to two years old.

just thought i'd mention that, u know, if that kinda thing matters to u.. knowing that ur reply is completely irrelevant.

Quote from: Pubrick

Quote from: evaderhead

Quote from: sphinxand michael penn is scoring the film, too...

:roll: this way,actually i'm kinda more intersted in it

just so u know, u quoted and responded to sumthing more than a year old. closer to two years old.

just thought i'd mention that, u know, if that kinda thing matters to u.. knowing that ur reply is completely irrelevant.

:!:

Quote from: Weak2ndActNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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I abhor the idea of a remake too -- or at least I did, until...

Quote from: Weak2ndActRaimi will not direct the remake, so Ghost House is looking for a helmer to reinvent the franchise before a script is written.

...when AICN reported on this story, they hinted that Raimi is talking to non other than...Chan Wook Park to do the remake. IF THIS IS TRUE, then I heartily endorse it.

EDIT: My mind being addled, I originally wrote Takeshi Miike's name there instead of Park. But in correcting myself, I realized that it would be inconceivably cooler if Miike directed an Evil Dead remake. Can you imagine how awesome that would be? Christ!

yeah i thought AICN was hinting at miike, but i didnt really know cause i've only seen Audition.  but that is the only thing that makes me not entirely full of hatred.

These are all real films that are scheduled to come out in 2005 :(

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THE WEDDING DATE: Woman hires escort to pose as her boyfriend so she can get through her sister's wedding -- which happens to feature her ex-fiance as the groom's best man. Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney star.

SON OF THE MASK: Sequel to the Jim Carrey comic book comedy stars Jamie Kennedy as a guy whose infant son somehow has all those powers.

MAN OF THE HOUSE: Tough Texas Ranger Tommy Lee Jones must go undercover to protect a squad of cheerleaders who witnessed a murder.

JIMINY GLICK IN LALAWOOD: Martin Short's clueless entertainment journalist goes to the Toronto Film Festival.  

THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED: True underdog golf story movie from Disney. Shia Labeouf is the working-class American kid who challenges snooty British champ Stephen Dillane.

REBOUND: Comedy about a college basketball coach who freaks out in public, then can only get a job coaching a junior-high team. Starring Martin Lawrence.

KICKING & SCREAMING: A comedy about the cutthroat world of kids' soccer with Will Ferrell and Robert Duvall playing a father and son using their positions as coaches to vent years of bottled-up mutual hostility.
   
THE PACIFIER: Vin Diesel is a Navy SEAL who must protect the bratty kids of a murdered scientist.

..there will be at least two or three "just because you're black doesn't mean you can't make it" films that will be released in 2005. Why is it every single year people feel the need to make these?

yeah, I know, why must black people have hope?

but seriously.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/guess_who/

Quote from: Find Your MagaliTHE WEDDING DATE: Woman hires escort to pose as her boyfriend so she can get through her sister’s wedding -- which happens to feature her ex-fiance as the groom’s best man. Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney star.

If you like sitcom situations stretched to feature length, you'll LOVE The Wedding Date!

QuoteSON OF THE MASK: Sequel to the Jim Carrey comic book comedy stars Jamie Kennedy as a guy whose infant son somehow has all those powers.

This is one Jamie Kennedy Experiment that succeeds marvelously!

QuoteTHE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED: True underdog golf story movie from Disney. Shia Labeouf is the working-class American kid who challenges snooty British champ Stephen Dillane.

More like The Greatest Movie Ever Made!

EDIT:  This movie is directed by Bill Paxton.  The same guy who directed Frailty.  What the hell?

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MAN OF THE HOUSE: Tough Texas Ranger Tommy Lee Jones must go undercover to protect a squad of cheerleaders who witnessed a murder.

oh my...

Rob Tapert on The Evil Dead Remake
Source: Sci Fi Wire January 26, 2005

Rob Tapert, who runs Ghost House Pictures with "Spider-Man" franchise director Sam Raimi, talked to Sci Fi Wire about producing the upcoming remake of The Evil Dead, which original star Bruce Campbell will also produce.

Tapert said they're going to be careful. "I talk to Bruce Campbell every other day, and he says, 'You should see the message boards and all of the stuff I get saying "Please don't do it!"' So we're certainly going to have to tread carefully."

He added that "as long as we stay true to what was the original model of the first Evil Dead, which was that we want to hurt and punish the audience, then those who love it will be satisfied."

"We mean to bring that out to a whole new generation in something that honors all of the people that loved it and yet gives them a new and thrilling ride that they weren't expecting. That's the challenge, and hopefully if we succeed that's kind of the glory."

Raimi wrote, directed and produced the 1981 film, which tells the tale of a group of friends who go to a cabin in the woods, where they find an unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only Ash (Campbell) remaining, it is up to him to survive the night and battle The Evil Dead.

Raimi will not direct the remake, so Ghost House is looking for a helmer to reinvent the franchise before a script is written.

The original film spawned sequels Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness.

Well, at least we know they know that we don't want it.  That's not going to stop them but it's a start.  The outcry may have shifted this from Texas Chainsaw remake territory to Dawn of the Dead remake territory.

I can dream...

Quote from: themodernage02Tapert said they're going to be careful. "I talk to Bruce Campbell every other day, and he says, 'You should see the message boards and all of the stuff I get saying "Please don't do it!"' So we're certainly going to have to tread carefully."

It's good that they read message boards and consider them some.  It's true they'll be disregarding the fans' wishes by making it anyway, but maybe it we work REALLY hard, p.t. anderson's new movie might come out!

Here's to hoping!

Here's to giving up...

Quote from: Ravi

QuoteSON OF THE MASK: Sequel to the Jim Carrey comic book comedy stars Jamie Kennedy as a guy whose infant son somehow has all those powers.

This is one Jamie Kennedy Experiment that succeeds marvelously!

here's hoping the paying cinema goers will be x'd (or how do you spell that shit?) because the movie's budget is $100 mill. any box office predictions? my bet is a total of $11 mill.

I'd bet on a film about Jamie Kennedy's infant son.

Re-making Evil Dead will completely destroy everything that was great about the films.
   And if Bruce is not going to star as Ash then it's just not worth seeing.

From TwitchFilm.net (http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/2005/01/some_people_hav.html)

Some People Have More Money Than Sense ... Insanely Expensive Animated Adaptation of Tommy in the Works ...

This pretty much speaks for itself:

(01-30-2005) The Who's 'Tommy' to Become Most Expensive Animation

THE WHO's celebrated rock-opera TOMMY is to become the most expensive
animated movie of all time.

GREASE producer ROBERT STIGWOOD plans to turn the 1975 PETE TOWNSHEND movie into a $400 million (GBP210 million) cartoon, which is tipped to feature the voices of singers ROBBIE WILLIAMS and BONO.

Stigwood, 70, says, "Pete Townshend is right behind this.

"It will feature the biggest names in the music industry. The original movie costs $3-4 million but this will cost $300-400 million.

"If you are going to do it, you've got to do it right."

--contactmusic

watch for the keywords...

Bruce Willis Goes 16 Blocks
Source: Production Weekly February 17, 2005

Bruce Willis is in talks to star in the action-drama 16 Blocks for director Richard Donner, reports Production Weekly.

Based on a pitch by Richard Wenk, the mismatched buddy film follows a troubled NYPD officer who's forced to take a happy, but down-on-his-luck witness 16 blocks from the police station to 100 Centre Street, although no one wants the duo to make it.

The story is a redemptive tale for characters who are polar opposites. The cop, a dark guy and a heart attack waiting to happen, who is escorting this witness who is a 14-time loser with a sunny outlook.

The site says production is scheduled to begin April 18th in Toronto.

Quote from: themodernage02Bruce Willis Goes 16 Blocks
Source: Production Weekly February 17, 2005

I'd watch that film happily. Wonder how goofy Last Boy Scout sounded based on its premise and its a guilty pleasure classic. Willis is too entertaining and deserves to be given the benefit of the doubt.

Quote from: themodernage02The story is a redemptive tale for characters who are polar opposites.

They're making Unbreakable 2?   :yabbse-grin:

Murro boards Warners' 'Train'

Noam Murro, the recipient of this year's DGA Award for outstanding directorial achievement in commercials, has signed on to direct Warner Bros. Pictures' new version of "Strangers on a Train." Anne and Arnold Kopleson are producing. David Seltzer is writing the screenplay for the adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel, which was first made into a film in 1951 by Alfred Hitchcock. The story inspired 1969's "Once You Kiss a Stranger" and Danny DeVito's "Throw Momma From the Train" in 1987. Robert Walker and Farley Granger starred in the original Hitchcock movie, with Granger playing a tennis pro who jokes about killing the father of a stranger he meets in return for the other man killing Granger's wife. Polly Cohen is overseeing the latest version for the studio. Murro has directed a wide variety of commercials, including spots for Adidas, Nike, Starbucks, Bud Light and eBay. He also was nominated for the DGA Award in 2003 and 2004.

:brickwall:  :brickwall:  :brickwall:  :brickwall:  :brickwall:

Well, at least they haven't remade psycho.

:doh:

I'm waiting for the Vertigo remake.

Quote from: GingerI'm waiting for the Vertigo remake.

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Yeah, but I mean... the NEW one.  Starring Academy Award winners Russell Crowe and Marisa Tomei!

Quote from: MacGuffin

Quote from: GingerI'm waiting for the Vertigo remake.

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ahh, obsession.

sure its a wild rumor but far worse than anything that could be imagined...

PARIS HILTON is in talks to remake some of Marilyn Monroe's old movies!!
Source: MTV.com

MTV: Would you ever want to remake a Monroe movie like "The Seven Year Itch" or "Some Like it Hot"

Hilton: Yeah, there's some talk

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we are very near the end of civilization, people.

PLEASE, GOD, KILL ME NOW!!!!
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The Vine: 'Birds' to fly again in Uni remake

"The Birds," Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1963 horror tale, looks to be taking flight again as a Universal Pictures remake. Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes shingle is in negotiations to produce the film with Peter Guber though his Mandalay Pictures banner. The new version would be based on the short story by Daphne Du Maurier, to which Universal owns the rights and which inspired Hitchcock's movie. Tippi Hedren starred in the original thriller about increasingly vicious birds that terrorize a small town. It won't be the first time Universal, which was Hitchcock's home for the latter part of the producer-director's career, has been part of a remake of the master. In 1998, Gus Van Sant directed a scene-for-scene remake of "Psycho" for the studio. That same year, Warner Bros. Pictures and Koppelson Entertainment turned out "A Perfect Murder," based on the play that inspired Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder." And at Warners -- underscoring the rage for Hitchcock remakes -- the studio is mounting a new version of "Strangers on a Train," based on the Patricia Highsmith novel that was the basis for the Hitchcock film. Platinum -- run by Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller -- is no stranger to the remake genre itself. Its most recent offering, "The Amityville Horror," has taken in more than $43 million after two weekends at the domestic boxoffice. Platinum remade "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" and recently set up a remake of "The Hitcher" with Focus Features to be released through Focus' genre label, Rogue Pictures.

It's another attempt by Hitchcock lovers to illustrate via remake how great the originals really are....

I kind of want to see a Strangers on a Train remake.

Quote from: RaviI kind of want to see a Strangers on a Train remake.

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Quote from: Ravia Strangers on a Train remake

Quote from: Ravikind of

Alright heres an Idea for some hollywood execs. Don't remake Strangers on a train or any hitchcock movie. Why not invest some money in to advertising and re-release the film wide you could do that with hitchcock ford kurosawa any of the old greats just re-release them into the theater were they were meant to be seen in the first place but for GOD sakes don't remake a classic. Please I beg you don't remake any more hitchcock
let me remember him through his old movies   :crazyeyes: .
(sobs into hands)

Gordon spies 'Look' remake
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Mark Gordon is planning to produce a remake of "Don't Look Now" for Paramount Pictures.

The 1973 film, directed by Nicolas Roeg and based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier, created a sensation in the early '70s thanks to a highly erotic love scene featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie.

Andrea Berloff will write the screenplay for the adaptation, which centers on a couple, John and Laura Baxter, who go to Venice, Italy, to recuperate after the sudden death of their daughter only to encounter strange visions that suggest their daughter's presence.

Gordon is producing through his Mark Gordon Co., with senior vp Josh McLaughlin overseeing for the Mark Gordon Co.

Paramount executives Wendy Japhet and Edward Goemans are overseeing for the studio.

McLaughlin said he and Gordon took the arrival of the new production team at Paramount as an opportunity to review titles in the Paramount library with an eye toward remakes. "I've always been a big fan of 'Don't Look Now,' and we thought it was a movie that could be updated. We owe a lot to Andrea Berloff, who (took the idea) and hit the ground running with the movie's ideas of death and life and looking for something just beyond life."

The original film, Gordon added, "was very much of its time, with a lot of atmospherics that wouldn't necessarily work today. But it has a great idea and a wonderful backdrop and setting. We hope to take the feeling of the story, continue to set it in Venice and make it contemporary."

Gordon recently completed filming "Casanova," starring Heath Ledger and directed by Lasse Hallstrom, for Walt Disney Studios in Venice, and despite the logistical challenges the waterlogged city presents, he hopes to return there to film "Don't Look Now." "The setting is part of what made the original movie," Gordon said.

The Mark Gordon Co. also produces the ABC series "Grey's Anatomy" with Touchstone Television. Gordon also is developing two other projects at Paramount, a new version of "The Ten Commandments" and "Killing Pablo," with Joe Carnahan as director.

Quote from: MacGuffin

"The Birds," Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1963 horror tale, looks to be taking flight again as a Universal Pictures remake. Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes shingle is in negotiations to produce the film with Peter Guber though his Mandalay Pictures banner.

I think this ulitmately proves that Michael Bay has never had an original fucking thought pass through his head.

Micheal Bay to make TRANSFORMERS

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418279/

Plot Outline: A live-action version of the original Transformers TV series involves an alien race of robots called the Autobots and the Decepticons crash landing on Earth where they battle for the ultimate power source: Energon.

This is perhaps the worst greenlit project I've heard about, asside from remakes (this could arguably be concidered a remake though). What pisses me off the most is Bay is one of the few studio directors with the right to Final Cut, as if he would actually need to preserve something for artistic integrity. But seriously, a live action version of Transformers? Come ON! I guess Bay would know how to do it though, since he is himself a ROBOT IN DISGUISE!

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I think he posted that in the correct thread, though.

Yes, but it's old news.

it was still a funny picture I made :(

Quote from: thadius sterlingit was still a funny picture I made :(

yeah, i was gonna say.

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Madonna Wants to Direct a Film

Madonna says she would like to follow the lead of her husband, filmmaker Guy Ritchie, and direct a movie of her own.

The pop singer will appear in a documentary about her life, "I'm Going To Tell You A Secret," which will air Dec. 1 on Britain's Channel 4 television.

"I would love to direct a film. I felt very inspired by making this movie, and I learned a lot about filmmaking and storytelling. I would like to do it on my own next time," she said in an interview broadcast Sunday with Channel 4.

Madonna said her 9-year-old daughter, Lourdes, is a good singer and dancer, and would one day follow in her footsteps.

Asked about her horse riding accident in England this summer, which broke her collarbone and cracked three ribs, Madonna said: "I don't want to go there. I get flashbacks. I'm just starting to feel better."

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QuoteHollywood beauty Pamela Anderson will make a cameo appearance in the forthcoming movie spin-off of TV show Baywatch. Anderson, who starred in the lifeguard soap in the early 1990s, is being lined up by David Hasselhoff to appear in the big screen version alongside other Baywatch cast mates, who are yet to be confirmed but could include Carmen Electra, Erika Eleniak, Yasmine Bleeth and Traci Bingham. The movie's director Eli Roth says, "Pammy and the original girls will most likely do cameos in the movie. For the main cast, they want to go with a new crop of hotties. The other producers spoke to Pamela about it and she said she'd love to do a cameo. For me, it just wouldn't be Baywatch without her." Hasselhoff adds, "The film will be set in different locations around the world. There will be lifeguards who are also sent on crime-busting sprees."

What.

Quote from: Losing the Horse: on February 10, 2006, 01:51:20 PM

QuoteHollywood beauty Pamela Anderson will make a cameo appearance in the forthcoming movie spin-off of TV show Baywatch. Anderson, who starred in the lifeguard soap in the early 1990s, is being lined up by David Hasselhoff to appear in the big screen version alongside other Baywatch cast mates, who are yet to be confirmed but could include Carmen Electra, Erika Eleniak, Yasmine Bleeth and Traci Bingham. The movie's director Eli Roth says, "Pammy and the original girls will most likely do cameos in the movie. For the main cast, they want to go with a new crop of hotties. The other producers spoke to Pamela about it and she said she'd love to do a cameo. For me, it just wouldn't be Baywatch without her." Hasselhoff adds, "The film will be set in different locations around the world. There will be lifeguards who are also sent on crime-busting sprees."

What.

(shrug) the guy knows how to shoot breasts.

Quote from: matt35mm on February 10, 2006, 05:22:34 PM

Quote from: Losing the Horse: on February 10, 2006, 01:51:20 PM

QuoteThe movie's director Eli Roth says, "Pammy and the original girls will most likely do cameos in the movie.

What.

(shrug) the guy knows how to shoot breasts.

He calls her "Pammy"? What the fuck?

Man, if only Russ Meyer were still alive...

from an undisclosed source close to eli:

"he was being considered to direct it and offered a lot of his own ideas
in the development process...ultimately they decided to go with someone
else to direct, i don't know who, but they kept a shitload of eli's
ideas so they felt it was only right to give him a co-producer
credit...which is the entirety of his involvement. they're going to
milk his name for publicity though. he mentioned last summer that they
might shoot it in 3D. weird..."

3d? hmm pammy=YES!  hasseloff=NOOOOOOO!

3D, huh?  maybe this is James Cameron's Project 880!

NO F*CKING WAY!!!!!!  :yabbse-angry:


Another Dirty Dozen
Joel Silver, WB plan remake.

According to Variety, producer Joel Silver and Warner Bros. will team with Village Roadshow for a remake of the World War II action classic The Dirty Dozen.

The remake will be penned by Scott Rosenberg (Gone in 60 Seconds) and the Alias team of Andre Nemec and Josh Appelbaum. The story will reportedly be contemporized.

"We're giving this version a personal stake. The mission isn't about finding gold or weapons or blowing up a castle. There is a personal element to it," producer Susan Downey said.

The 1967 original was directed by Robert Aldrich and starred such classic screen tough guys as Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Telly Savales, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Clint Walker and George Kennedy.

"When they both cited Dirty Dozen as the kind of mission movie they'd like to make, Harris discovered that WB owned the rights to the original, which was distributed by MGM," the trade claims.

Sweathogs Rule! Cube Welcomes Back "Kotter"
Source: E! News

Bring out the Welcome wagon.

Ice Cube has signed on to play the title role in a film adaptation of the classic 1970s TV series Welcome Back, Kotter, it was announced Tuesday.

As part of his deal with Dimension Films, Cube will also coproduce the redo of the former ABC series that turned John Travolta into a household name.

"There was no bigger fan of the original show than me, and I'm very excited to be able to put a new twist on it," the Barbershop star said in a statement.

Cube will play the titular Gabe Kotter, a slacker turned teacher who returns to his inner-city alma mater and who sees himself in the new batch of underprivileged troublemakers. He works to inspire the seemingly apathetic students, known as the Sweathogs.

The gang of kids is led by scatterbrained himbo Vinnie Barbarino, played in the original incarnation by Travolta. The original 'hogs also included the super suave Freddie "Boom-Boom" Washington (originally played by Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs), the tough-talking Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein ( Robert Hegyes), and nasally nerd Arnold Dingfelder Horshack ( Ron Palillo) and were responsible for injecting retorts like "up your nose with a rubber hose" into the cultural vernacular.

Gabe Kaplan, who played Kotter in the original 1975-79 series, also created the show with partner Alan Sacks and retained the rights. He said that despite heavy interest from studios over the years, they held out on adapting Kotter until the right pitch came along.

"We were skeptical about selling Kotter because making a great movie from a TV show can be challenging," Kaplan said. "After meeting with the Weinsteins [Harvey and Bob Weinstein run Dimension], we knew they were the right ones to bring this project to the screen."

No word on whether any of the original stars will make cameos in the film, though if the recent influx of box office remakes are any indication, it's highly likely that some of the old gang will pay their respects. Likewise, we assume that Cube will give a hip-hop spin to the classic "Welcome Back" theme song, originally crooned by John Sebastian.

The Hot Chick's Tom Brady has signed on to write and direct Kotter.

Production is expected to kick off this fall, after filming is complete on Cube's next project, Are We Done Yet?, a sequel to last year's surprise hit Are We There Yet?, which happens to be another remake--this time based loosely on the Cary Grant film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse. Cameras roll on that film in Vancouver this June.

They should get Shia LaBeouf for Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington.


And it's a Why, God, why?!? two-fer!

Quote from: Tryskadekafobia on March 15, 2006, 08:58:49 PM
Ice Cube has signed on to play the title role in a film adaptation of the classic 1970s TV series Welcome Back, Kotter, it was announced Tuesday.

Quote from: Tryskadekafobia on March 15, 2006, 08:58:49 PM
Production is expected to kick off this fall, after filming is complete on Cube's next project, Are We Done Yet?, a sequel to last year's surprise hit Are We There Yet?, which happens to be another remake--this time based loosely on the Cary Grant film Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse. Cameras roll on that film in Vancouver this June.

Terri Schiavo Film in Development
Source: Variety, April 10, 2006

A year after Terri Schiavo died, a quartet of producers-including Mike Farrell and Lawrence Bender-have optioned the rights to Michael Schiavo's just-published book "Terri: The Truth" and are looking to develop it as a telepic or feature film. Variety says Farrell and Bender would produce any project in conjunction with their respective partners, Marvin Minoff and Kevin Brown.

Schiavo's death on March 31, 2005, came after a years-long battle between Michael Schiavo, husband of Terri Schiavo, and her parents over when it was appropriate to remove the brain-dead woman from life support. What began as a family feud ended up a national political battle.

"The story is almost Shakespearean in the warring of the families and the great love story between the (couple)," Minoff told the trade. "It starts off so beautifully and then ends so chaotically."

Producers don't plan to hire a writer until they sell the project to a TV network or film studio. The goal is to tell Terri and Michael Schiavo's story from the beginning of their romance.

Quote from: Hedwig on April 11, 2006, 08:26:21 PM
Terri Schiavo Film in Development

I smell Oscar number 2 for Charlize!

Or a CableACE for what's her name that was the show with Corky then was killed on ER.

At Long Last: That Fred Durst Feature

As I'm sure you all remember, late last year Fred Durst told MTV about his rather impressive cinematic ambitions. And I quote: "I want to be beside Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson and Paul Thomas Anderson and Francis Ford Coppola. I'm a real director." Make no mistake about it, haters, Durst has big plans. And now, finally, The Education of Charlie Banks, Durst's long-discussed feature debut, is going ahead. The movie, which has a budget of about $10 million, was written by Peter Elkoff, and revolves around "a Vassar College student who gets an unannounced visit from the scariest kid from his old New York neighborhood."

Durst has scored a surprisingly solid young cast for his film, including Jesse Eisenberg (the big brother from The Squid and the Whale), who will play Banks, and two of the shockingly talented male leads from Joan of Arcadia, Jason Ritter and Chris Marquette. The movie starts filming this June and, with those stars and a $10 million budget, Durst has a great start on that movie career of his.

There is no god

Good for him.  Hope he does it.  And even if he falls on his face trying, that's more than most who've detracted from his efforts can say.  His heart is in the right place, and the directors he admires are a sound list, so you can't fault him for any of that.

Quote from: onomabracadabra on April 13, 2006, 01:11:13 PM
...so you can't fault him for any of that.

the hell i can't.

As no one on the face of the earth seems to be excited about this, he'd better be the next PTA or he'll never work again. 

In other words, he'll never work again.  $10 million is a fair price for that dream of mine to come true.

Quote from: hacksparrow on April 13, 2006, 01:56:33 PM
As no one on the face of the earth seems to be excited about this, he'd better be the next PTA or he'll never work again. 

But what if he actually WAS the next PTA?  What if this actually did turn out to be really great?  What if he even ended up with his own director's forum here? 

I'm starting to scare myself now..

Quote from: hacksparrow on April 13, 2006, 01:56:33 PM
he'd better be the next PTA

Its not a possiblity. This is the man who gave us such great gems as: I did it all for the nookie. What? the nookie. What? So you can take that cookie...and...well you get it.

I got on myspace the other day and just happened to make my way to his site. It was ridiculous, he had written some song about how their former guitarist was a bitch for leaving the band or something. Pretty pathetic. The fascinating thing was the people who still listen to limp bizkit that were posting replies to his rants. These horrible idiots. They will eat up whatever tripe dribbles from this guys head. Limp Bizkit's fans and their disturbing & blind adoration for the band is very similar to Insane Clown Posse fans, which is not good at all. I hope hope hope Durst makes a thought-provoking piece of art, so all of his die-hard fans will turn on him for being an artsy pussy. But i seriously doubt that will happen, Durst seems like the kind of guy who would direct a movie like...say...Boondock Saints.

Quote from: Ginger on April 13, 2006, 02:24:16 PM

Quote from: hacksparrow on April 13, 2006, 01:56:33 PM
As no one on the face of the earth seems to be excited about this, he'd better be the next PTA or he'll never work again. 

But what if he actually WAS the next PTA?  What if this actually did turn out to be really great?  What if he even ended up with his own director's forum here? 

I'm starting to scare myself now..

If, by some strange misalignment of the cosmos, he turns out to be as good as he thinks he is, then great!  As long as he stops making shitty music.  Forever.  The reason we think he sucks all around is because his music sucks.  I don't think that's compromising how we feel about him.  Even if he makes the best American film since Magnolia, Limp Bizkit will still suck.

It could very well be that Fred Durst picked a first career that didn't show off his true talents but paved the way for his success so he could show us what he can really do... kind of like Russell Crowe and TOFOG.

Birds Droppings
An update on the Hitch remake!

IGN FilmForce recently paid a visit to the Texas set of Rogue Pictures' The Hitcher, a remake of the 1986 cult classic produced by Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes, where we got the chance to chat with producer Brad Fuller.

Fuller told us about some other projects that Platinum Dunes is developing, including a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 suspense classic The Birds, which Fuller was quick to point out "is a whole different animal than anything we've ever done."

"We're not remaking Hitchcock's movie. That movie stands on its own and it is a wonderful piece of filmmaking. It's a very difficult thing to say, 'We're remaking a Hitchcock film,'" Fuller said. "What was interesting to us was that the short story [by Daphne Du Maurier] the Hitchcock film was based on was chock full of stuff that Hitchcock didn't use in his film. And so we went to those things and that's the basis of our film. It's the same title because it's based on the same short story but we don't have characters like what they have. The concept of birds, certainly, that's the core of the movie but the situations and the plot come from the short story not from the Hitchcock film."

IGN learned that The Birds will be scripted by the writing team of Stiles White and Juliet Snowden (Boogeyman). So will the new version still feature an icy blonde whose arrival into a small California seaside town eerily coincides with the avian attacks?

"No, it's a family that's already there, that's been there," Fuller revealed. "Those kinds of things will change subject of who we have writing it and what actors we're able to get and what the actors want."

"It's a little different from when Hitch was making those movies. We have a lot of variables we have to balance. So, as I said, we're not remaking the movie. We're remaking that story. And what we're always looking for is a compelling story."

The big question surrounding The Birds is whether or not Michael Bay will direct it. "No. I don't think Bay has the time," Fuller said flatly. "Transformers is non-stop until July 2007. Michael, he's the hardest working man. He doesn't stop. He's not going to take time off in post to go direct another movie. He stays with it until the bitter end."

Fuller even addressed the issue of casting. "We've had interest from very high-level actresses to play what they think is the Tippi Hendren role. It's not but, again, all of our films have this female protagonist. We've had some wonderful interest from some incredible actresses and that will dictate a little bit who directs the movie, I suspect."

Remake of the film/based on the short stoy...

it still smells of bullshit

Quote from: squints on July 01, 2006, 05:01:15 PM
Remake of the film/based on the short stoy...

it still smells of bullbirdshit

the short story  was way worse than Hitchcock's spin anyways, what a bad idea.

Timberlake to join Moore for Graduate redo?
Source: Moviehole

Sounds more dubious some of the stuff at the bottom of Tim Allen's resume, but lets roll with it anyway. Sky News is reporting that Demi Moore and Justin Timberlake are in talks to front a remake of "The Graduate". Yep, "The Graduate".

The former Brat Packer turned Cradle Snatcher will play the licentious Mrs. Robinson, whilst popsinger cum wannabe film star Timberlake (Last seen in the savaged "Alpha Dog") will don the twitchy boxers of her young stud-in-training; a role made famous by Dustin Hoffman.

Initially, Moore was planning to remake the film with her hubby, Ashton Kutcher, but decided against the idea after remembering how much of a nightmare it was doing, well, films with Emilio Estevez and Bruce Willis.

bringing mrs robinson back... boooooooooo :yabbse-angry:

The Day the Earth Stood Still Being Remade for 2008 - Confirmed!
Source: First Showing

Apparently Box Office Mojo, the best website for all things box office earnings, has updated their schedule for summer 2008 and included a listing of The Day the Earth Stood Still to open on May 9th, 2008 (one week after Iron Man). The original is a sci-fi classic 1951 movie about an alien and a robot that land on Earth to try and save the world from being destroyed. IMDB doesn't even have a listing for this remake, but Box Office Mojo claims it's being produced by Fox, fast-tracked for a spot in 2008′s busy summer.

Is this real? We don't know yet, but we'll put in some requests with Fox to find out. I can bet if it is real, it's going to be directed by someone who will give all sci-fi geeks quite a tingle. This movie is a very well-known classic and I don't think they'd risk screwing up a remake - like War of the Worlds, another 50′s classic, fortunately they did a pretty good job with that.

Update: Fox confirmed with us that this is true and the date is correct, meaning a The Day the Earth Stood Still remake is definitely underway for summer 2008!

Fred Durst-Directed Flick Awarded At Tribeca Film Festival
Limp Bizkit frontman's 'Education of Charlie Banks' takes home Made in NY narrative prize.

Fred Durst has always been a popular singer. Who knew the Limp Bizkit frontman could also direct?

Durst was among the big winners at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, where his flick "The Education of Charlie Banks" took home the Made in NY narrative prize, given to the best film either about or shot in New York state. "The Education of Charlie Banks" follows three New Yorkers, played by Chris Marquette, Jason Ritter and Jesse Eisenberg, who reunite at Vassar College after a turbulent youth.

According to a festival spokesperson, Durst's flick beat out 14 other films for the prize and was chosen by a jury that included Oscar winner Mercedes Ruehl and actress Minnie Driver.

Director David Volach's "My Father My Lord" took home the award for Best Narrative Feature while Alex Gibey's "Taxi to the Darkside" won Best Documentary. "My Father My Lord" (titled "Hofshat Kaits" in Israel) follows a rabbi who challenges his faith, while "Taxi" centers on U.S. torture practices overseas, particularly how they affected an innocent taxi driver who was tortured and killed in Afghanistan in 2002.

Gibey won't be making many friends at the next Republican National Convention. He was previously best known for directing "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room."

"I fear that along the way that sense of purpose and hope for a better world was hijacked by some people who played on our fears and in a way took us on a journey to the dark side," the director said at the awards ceremony, according to Yahoo! Movies.

Other winners at the sixth annual festival included "Making Of," which won both Best Actor (Lofti Edbelli) and Best Screenplay (Nouri Bouzid); "Lady Chatterley," which won Best Actress (Marina Hands); and "The Killing of John Lennon," which won the Made in NY Special Jury Recognition Prize.

"The Last Dog in Rwanda" and "A Son's Sacrifice" were highlighted in the short-film competition. The flicks won for Best Narrative Short and Best Documentary Short, respectively.

Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal started the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002 as a way to revitalize lower Manhattan after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center crippled the area's economy.

No, seriously. Stop with the remakes already...


MGM remaking 'Dressed to Kill'
Studio pacts with Hyde Park on DVD movies
Source: Variety

MGM is partnering with Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment to produce direct-to-DVD movies aimed at specific demos.

First project from the alliance will be a remake of the 1980 thriller "Dressed to Kill," with Rick Alexander signed to write the script.

Hyde Park's Patrick Aiello initiated the remake project and will head the banner's new consumer direct division, working closely with MGM's recently installed home entertainment VP Jason Weiss, who will oversee the production.

The original pic was released by Filmways, which was later acquired by Orion and ultimately by MGM. Brian De Palma wrote and directed, with Angie Dickinson, Dennis Franz, Nancy Allen and Michael Caine starring.

Alexander recently scripted the sci-fi thriller "Subatomic" for the two companies, and is producing a remake of "Conan the Barbarian" for Warner Bros.

MGM is planning to release 12 or more DVD projects per year, primarily based on popular film and TV franchises. Hyde Park recently wrapped "Asylum," is in post- production on James Wan's "Death Sentence" for Fox and has a five-year co-financing agreement with Fox, which is also the exclusive distrib for MGM's consumer-direct projects.

updated beaver shots!

Quote from: Depraved, Inc. on June 06, 2007, 03:58:58 AM
updated beaver shots!

aaah spoiler! :yabbse-angry:

why does that spoil it for you?

oh...

Screen Gems to reheat 'Big Chill'
Film to be remade with African-American cast
Source: Variety

Screen Gems will remake Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 pic "The Big Chill."

The movie will likely be retitled, but the original script by Kasdan and Barbara Benedek will be used as a template; the storyline will be contemporized and the cast will be African American.

Screen Gems owns the rights and will hire a screenwriter to do a polish on the original script. Kasdan is not involved.

Regina King will be part of the ensemble, and she will produce with her sister, Reina King, and Will Packer ("Stomp the Yard").

Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper is out to directors and intends to get the picture in production by year's end.

The remake will stick closely to the original storyline, in which seven college friends reunite over a weekend at a South Carolina house for the funeral of a pal. As they get reacquainted, they become introspective about how their lives turned out.

The cast of the new film will be in their 30s, which means the characters will have matriculated together in the 1990s instead of the '60s. Music will be a big part of the film, though the redo may stick with the original's fixation on Motown classics.

No. No, no, NO!  :yabbse-angry:


Back up the Ladder
Source: Moviehole

A remake of the cult classic – code for 'didn't do well theatrically, but made a mint on video' – "Jacobs Ladder" is in the works, according to Variety.

Alison Rosenzweig, producer of the upcoming thriller "Transit," about a family road trip gone horribly awry, has apparently set the wheels in motion on a the Tim Robbins redo.

Directed by Adrian Lyne, the 1990 film told of a traumatized Vietnam War veteran (Robbins) who finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him.

Quote from: MacGuffin on July 04, 2007, 11:17:03 AM
"Jacobs Ladder"

ah man, updated wood!

Now, I'm getting really angry   :evil::

Brad Pitt's Bullitt
Source: Monsters and Critics

Brad Pitt will star in a remake of 60s classic movie 'Bullitt'.

The 'Ocean's Thirteen' actor will take the role of Lt Frank Bullitt made famous by Hollywood legend Steve McQueen in the 1968 original film.

A source said: "Brad shares a lot of the same passions as Steve McQueen - including a love of motorbikes and fast cars - so it was a dream role for him."

The original film sees the tough detective hunting a hitman who has killed his fellow officers. The movie is renowned for featuring one of the best car chases in cinema history as McQueen's Mustang car speeds through the rollercoaster streets of San Francisco.

Brad, 43, has been linked with the role since 2003 but the project has only now been given the green light as film bosses desperately try to kick-start as many movies as possible before the Screen Actors Guild begin their anticipated strike action.

Brad can next be seen playing legendary outlaw Jesse James in the western 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford', due out in October.

Okay, is it fuck with Mac's favorite films week or what?  :brickwall:


Zak Penn signs with CAA
Filmmaker is writing remake of 'Dirty Dozen'
Source: Variety

Writer-director Zak Penn has inked with CAA.

Penn, who had been repped by Endeavor, is rewriting a remake of "The Dirty Dozen" for Warner Bros. and producer Joel Silver, and his screen credits include "X-Men: The Last Stand," "Fantastic Four" and "Elektra."

He also wrote, produced and directed "The Grand," which is being distributed by Anchor Bay, and made his directing debut on the 2004 pic "Incident at Loch Ness."

Penn's production company, Reol Inc., has a first look deal at 20th Century Fox.

Quote from: MacGuffin on July 05, 2007, 05:25:22 PM
A source said: "Brad shares a lot of the same passions as Steve McQueen - including a love of motorbikes and fast cars - so it was a dream role for him."

The source continued : "Brad is also human, male, and has been in movies with people in them. It makes him perfect for the Steve McQueen role!"

'Casablanca' to be remade on Indian shores
Source: Reuters

NEW DELHI -- An Indian filmmaker is remaking "Casablanca", swapping the Rick's Cafe of the Oscar-winning classic for a restaurant in south India, and the World War II backdrop for the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka.

In the 1942 film, Humphrey Bogart played a club owner who romances a married Ingrid Bergman and helps her escape the Nazis with her husband, a resistance leader.

"My film will be a tribute to the original," said Rajeev Nath, the director who plans to premiere his Malayalam language remake, "Ezham Mudra" (The Seventh Seal), in the coastal Moroccan city where the original was set. "As a student of films, I had watched this great classic 20 times."

Nath's protagonist is an Indian diplomat-turned restaurateur who helps his lover and her husband, both Tamil separatist rebels fighting the Sri Lankan government, escape from India.

In the adaptation, the hero and his lover meet in a beachside restaurant.

Nath says his film will swap the World War II background of the original for the separatist movement in Sri Lanka -- where Tamils have been fighting for a separate ethnic homeland in the north and east of the Indian Ocean island -- but does not indulge in any politics.

"It is neither against nor in support of their cause," said the 55-year-old director, who met some Tamil Tiger rebels during a trip to Norway.

The Sri Lankan civil war has killed nearly 70,000 people since 1983, about 4,500 of them since last year alone.

The war strikes a strong chord across the Palk Strait in southern India where more than 60 million Indian Tamils live. India has had a complex political and military link to the conflict and Tamil rebels have also taken refuge here.

Nath begins shooting next month and some parts are to be filmed in Sri Lanka. The film is slated for a 2008 release.

"Ezham Mudra," which is Nath's 12th project as director, features Malayalam actor Suresh Gopi and Bollywood actress Mandira Bedi in the roles famously essayed by Bogart and Bergman.

Nath, who won India's prestigious national award for direction in 1999 for his Malayalam film "Janani" (Mother), said remaking "Casablanca" was a dream come true.

"Casablanca" ranked third after "Citizen Kane" and "The Godfather" on a list of 100 best American films in a poll conducted by the American Film Institute in 2007.

Keanu Reeves lands on 'Earth'
Actor to star in classic sci-fi remake
Source: Variety

Twentieth Century Fox has set Keanu Reeves to star in "The Day the Earth Stood Still," its re-imagining of the 1951 Robert Wise-directed sci-fi classic.

Reeves committed over the weekend to play Klaatu, a humanoid alien who arrives on Earth accompanied by an indestructible, heavily armed robot and a warning to world leaders that their continued aggression will lead to annihilation by species watching from afar.

Erwin Stoff is producing, with Scott Derrickson ("The Exorcism of Emily Rose") directing from a script by David Scarpa. Reeves' commitment puts the picture on track for a late fall or early 2008 production start. Studio sees it as a tentpole.

The Klaatu role was originated by Michael Rennie. The 1951 film's premise, a response to the rise of the Cold War after WWII, is being updated, and the film will use advances in visual effects.

It also returns "The Matrix" star to his strong suit in the sci-fi realm and puts him in back-to-back films for Fox. He just completed the David Ayer-directed "The Night Watchman," for Fox Searchlight/Regency about police corruption based on a story by James Ellroy. Forest Whitaker, Chris Evans and Hugh Laurie also star.

Quote from: MacGuffin on July 05, 2007, 05:45:32 PM
Penn, who had been repped by Endeavor, is rewriting a remake of "The Dirty Dozen" for Warner Bros...

He also wrote, produced and directed "The Grand," which is being distributed by Anchor Bay, and made his directing debut on the 2004 pic "Incident at Loch Ness."

I have no idea where this is going, I enjoyed that mockumentary "Incident at Loch Ness"(starring Werner Herzog) a lot, I can't imagine how "The Dirty Dozen" would end up being through his hands.

Woo's 'Killer' gets a new contract
Lee to remake Woo's gangster classic in L.A.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

BUSAN, South Korea -- Legendary action director John Woo's 1989 Hong Kong classic "The Killer" will be remade in Los Angeles with a Korean star replacing Chow Yun-fat as the hard-boiled hit man.

Director John H. Lee, a Korean-American and a CAA client, will move the action through L.A.'s Koreatown, Chinatown and South Central, said Woo's longtime producer and partner at Lion Rock Prods., Terence Chang.

"The actor has to be Korean in this version, but also, L.A. is a character in the film," Chang said in an interview on the opening day of the four-day Asian Film Market.

"In John's original version, it doesn't really matter where the film is set, except that Hong Kong has this dragon boat festival which adds a bit of local flavor. In this remake, we will use the geography of L.A. to move the story forward."

Director Lee told The Hollywood Reporter that he's excited about working on the remake of one of his "favorite films of all time."

"I ask myself why they chose me and whether I can top it," Lee said from Seoul on Monday. "But then I realize it's not about making it better. It's about making my own version. My strength is dealing with human emotions, austerity and elegance."

Chung Taewon, president of Korea's Taewon Entertainment, said that his company was also involved in the project.

Taewon Entertainment is majority owned by Fireworks International, a Hong Kong-based media company, initially funded by Dutch Bank ABN Amro.

Chang said a script is being worked on but said it is too early to reveal other details.

Lee, also at Pusan, directed "A Moment to Remember" in 2004, the most popular Korean movie ever to open in Japan, where it earned about $26 million.

The remake of "The Killer" will be the latest in a string of Asian films to cross the Pacific to Hollywood, where last year Martin Scorsese won the best director Oscar for "The Departed," a remake of Hong Kong gangster film "Infernal Affairs."

DDL can play Korean.

Ugh, I don't even wanna THINK about how he prepares for that role.

Quote from: Stefen on October 08, 2007, 06:11:47 PM
Ugh, I don't even wanna THINK about how he prepares for that role.

hahah, another reason why samsong may have been ostracized.

Naomi Watts set for 'Birds' remake
Martin Campbell in talks to direct for Universal
Source: Variety

Naomi Watts will star and Martin Campbell is in negotiations to direct Universal's new version of "The Birds."

U is planning a reimagining of Daphne du Maurier's short story, which inspired the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock classic.

Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller will produce through their Platinum Dunes shingle, while Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman are producing for Mandalay Pictures.

U is not looking to rush the pic into production prior to a possible strike.

Stiles White and Juliet Snowden wrote a version of the script that is still being developed. New scribes may be brought aboard.

For the moment, Campbell's and Watts' dance cards are already filled with other projects.

Campbell is attached to Fox's runaway train actioner "Unstoppable" and crime thriller "36" at Paramount. He most recently helmed the latest James Bond installment "Casino Royale."

Watts, who will next be seen in Warner Independent's "Funny Games," is filming "The International" and will follow that up with First Look's adaptation of Amy Sutherland's "Kicked, Bitten and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premiere School for Exotic Animal Trainers."

Mandalay's David Zelon and Jonathan Krauss will oversee for Mandalay. Scott Bernstein is overseeing the pic for U.

Naomi Watts exclusively stars in remakes now.

Quote from: MacGuffin on October 19, 2007, 12:04:30 AM
Naomi Watts set for 'Birds' remake

Quote from: modage on October 19, 2007, 08:42:26 AM
Naomi Watts exclusively stars in remakes now.

wants to be kidman.

New 'Noon' on the clock at American Film Market
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Remake rights to the 1952 classic Western "High Noon," starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, were acquired Monday at AFM by producer Mark Headley, actor Christopher Mitchum and their business partner, Toni Covington.

Rights were secured from actress Karen Sharp Kramer, wife of the late Stanley Kramer, producer of the iconic original about a town marshal forced to face a gang of killers by himself.

The newly formed Los Angeles-based High Noon Prods. is seeking a director and a star to play the lead and hopes to begin shooting early next year with a target budget of about $20 million, Headley said.

Mitchum, son of actor Robert Mitchum, worked on the Westerns "The Last Hard Men" with Charlton Heston and James Coburn in 1976 and "Rio Lobo" with John Wayne in 1970. He noted that he had wanted to remake "High Noon" for years.

Kramer confirmed the deal but declined to reveal its terms.

The original "High Noon" was written by John Cunningham and Carl Foreman and directed by Fred Zinnemann; it was based on pulp short story, "The Tin Star."

'Metropolis' finds new life
Schuehly to remake sci-fi classic
Source: Variety

Producer Thomas Schuehly ("Alexander") has acquired the remake rights to Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" and is partnering with Mario Kassar on an updated version of the 1927 silent sci-fi classic.

The Munich-based Schuehly and Kassar are currently in negotiations with a number of top directors to helm the pic, with a final decision expected in the next few months.

Schuehly obtained the rights to the film from Vienna-based publishing group Sessler Verlag.

One of the most groundbreaking films in cinematic history, the influence of "Metropolis" is evident in classic works that have spanned the 20th century, from James Whale's "Frankenstein," "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001" to "Blade Runner," "Gattaca" and "The Matrix."

"With the overwhelming role technology plays in our daily lives, the growing gap between rich and poor, including the gradual elimination of the middle class, the story of 'Metropolis' is a frightening reflection of our society that takes place in an all too possible not too distant future," said Schuehly.

Considered one of the most expensive films of its time, pic is set in 2026 in a massive city-state characterized by its monumental skyscrapers and art-deco architecture.

The film, which is listed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Org's World Register as part of Germany's documentary heritage, depicts the class struggle between the wealthy society of planners and thinkers, who live in luxury high above the Earth, and the workers, who live underground, toiling to sustain the lives of the privileged.

Schuehly, has also produced such films as "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and "The Name of the Rose," as well as Oliver Stone's "Alexander."

Schuehly's production won't be the first remake of a German expressionist classic. In 1979, Werner Herzog created a modern classic with his adaptation of F.W. Murnau's 1922 vampire film "Nosferatu."

'Bumped' is 'Breakfast' at an airport
Source: Hollywood Reporter

NEW YORK -- Veteran producer Bridget Johnson will produce "Bumped," a modern-day version of "The Breakfast Club," with McG protege Anna Mastro attached to direct from a script by Lizzy Weiss.

"Bumped" is a comedy-drama revolving around five twentysomethings -- including a corporate go-getter, a musician and a flirt -- who normally wouldn't be friends but who get to know one another when they're bumped from a flight and wind up stranded at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.

The project marks the directorial debut for Mastro, who worked closely with director-producer McG on his "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and was an associate producer on his "Stay Alive."

Mastro also has developed and produced the CW's "Pussycat Dolls" series and, like McG, shot music videos.

The film will be financed independently and later set up at a studio; it likely won't shoot until the SAG strike situation is resolved. Johnson ("As Good as It Gets"), who was an exec at Touchstone as well as at James L. Brooks' Gracie Films, produced the upcoming Miramax release "Smart People."

John Hughes' 1985 film "The Breakfast Club" (with which "Bumped" has no formal association) was a generation-defining comedy that helped build the careers of actors like Emilio Estevez.

super weird - I was stuck at the Chicago airport for 22 hours last Friday, made friends with a bunch of people who were very different from each other and I remembered thinking, this would make a shitty sitcom.

Quote from: MacGuffin on March 02, 2008, 09:08:53 PM
McG protege Anna Mastro

There's a phrase that inspires optimism.

Rosemary Remake Mulled

Shock Till You Drop reported that Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes company is in talks with Paramount to remake Roman Polanski's 1968 horror film Rosemary's Baby.

Dunes producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form are currently looking for writers to tackle the material, which is based on Ira Levin's novel, the site reported.

The original film centered on a young Manhattan couple, played by John Cassavetes and Mia Farrow, and a pregnancy that turns into something more sinister.

Bay preps 'Rosemary' redo
Source: Hollywood Reporter

"Rosemary's Baby" is in for a rebirth.

Paramount is in negotiations with horror shingle Platinum Dunes to bring back the classic for a new generation of moviegoers.

Partners Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller will produce the remake.

"Baby" was a best-selling novel by playwright-author Ira Levin ("The Boys From Brazil," "The Stepford Wives"). The book was adapted in 1968 into a much-loved Paramount movie directed by Roman Polanski that starred Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes and Ruth Gordon, who won an Oscar for her role.

The story follows a young couple who move into a gothic New York apartment, where they are befriended by their elderly neighbors. After the woman becomes mysteriously pregnant, she discovers that the neighbors actually are part of a coven of witches and that her husband has allowed her to be impregnated by the devil in exchange for a successful career.

No scribe is yet on board to write, and Platinum Dunes plans to be meticulous with the remake, knowing it has been entrusted with a jewel from the Paramount library.

Platinum Dunes already is working with Paramount, along with New Line, on a relaunch of "Friday the 13th." The company is in production on "Unborn," an original supernatural thriller being directed by David Goyer.

Madonna wants to remake Casablanca - and of all the places in all the world, she plans to set it in war-torn Iraq
By CAROLINE GRAHAM; The Daily Mail

It is one of the greatest films of Hollywood's golden era, a triple Oscar-winning classic with electrifyingly charismatic stars and a script bursting with memorable lines.

But now Madonna has stunned the movie industry with plans to remake Casablanca – and this time set it in Iraq.

The singer, whose previous film career has been littered with critical and commercial turkeys, is also planning to take the lead role of Ilsa Lund, which originally made a star of Ingrid Bergman.

A source at a major Hollywood studio that was recently approached by the 49-year-old star said: "She is still determined to make it in the movies.

"She and her representatives have been touting around a project which is a remake of Casablanca. The reception has been lukewarm to say the least. No one can understand why she wants to redo what many people consider the greatest film of all time."

In the 1942 original, Bergman starred opposite Humphrey Bogart, who played Rick Blaine, a cynical bar owner in the Moroccan city of Casablanca in the early days of the Second World War. Ilsa is torn between love for her husband, a Czech Resistance leader, and her ex-lover Rick.

Madonna is said to believe the film will make her reputation as an actress, after a string of high-profile flops such as Shanghai Surprise, Body Of Evidence and Swept Away, her much-derided 2002 collaboration with husband Guy Ritchie.

The source said: "Madonna is talking about taking the Ingrid Bergman role for herself, even though Bergman was in her 20s when she played Ilsa and Madonna is nearly 50.

"She wants to update the story and maybe set it in a modern war zone such as Iraq. There is no script yet.

"Madonna and her people are testing the waters to see if this is the right vehicle for her and if a major studio will get behind the project."

The movie, which regularly tops lists of the greatest films ever made, includes the classic song As Time Goes By and memorable quotes such as: "Here's looking at you, kid", "We'll always have Paris" and "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine".

But one of the lines most closely associated with Casablanca – "Play it again, Sam"– is a misquotation. In fact, Ilsa says: "Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake. Play it, Sam." Later, Rick says: "You played it for her and you can play it for me. If she can stand it, I can. Play it!"

Bollywood filmmaker Rajeev Nath is also said to be working on a remake set in India, calling it "a tribute to the original".

A spokeswoman for Madonna refused to comment.

And here's how she might 'improve' the classic script

Of all the Kabbalah meetings in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

Here's looking at you, kid. Now who do we have to pay to adopt him?

We'll always have Basra... I think this is the beginning of a beautiful fitness regime...

I stick my neck out for nobody - just in case they see the wrinkles.

It doesn't take much to see that Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction arsenal didn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

If you watch this remake, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

Quote from: MacGuffin on March 31, 2008, 12:47:52 PM
Madonna wants to remake Casablanca - and of all the places in all the world, she plans to set it in war-torn Iraq
By CAROLINE GRAHAM; The Daily Mail

It is one of the greatest films of Hollywood's golden era, a triple Oscar-winning classic with electrifyingly charismatic stars and a script bursting with memorable lines.

But now Madonna has stunned the movie industry with plans to remake Casablanca – and this time set it in Iraq.

The singer, whose previous film career has been littered with critical and commercial turkeys, is also planning to take the lead role of Ilsa Lund, which originally made a star of Ingrid Bergman.

A source at a major Hollywood studio that was recently approached by the 49-year-old star said: "She is still determined to make it in the movies.

"She and her representatives have been touting around a project which is a remake of Casablanca. The reception has been lukewarm to say the least. No one can understand why she wants to redo what many people consider the greatest film of all time."

In the 1942 original, Bergman starred opposite Humphrey Bogart, who played Rick Blaine, a cynical bar owner in the Moroccan city of Casablanca in the early days of the Second World War. Ilsa is torn between love for her husband, a Czech Resistance leader, and her ex-lover Rick.

Madonna is said to believe the film will make her reputation as an actress, after a string of high-profile flops such as Shanghai Surprise, Body Of Evidence and Swept Away, her much-derided 2002 collaboration with husband Guy Ritchie.

The source said: "Madonna is talking about taking the Ingrid Bergman role for herself, even though Bergman was in her 20s when she played Ilsa and Madonna is nearly 50.

"She wants to update the story and maybe set it in a modern war zone such as Iraq. There is no script yet.

"Madonna and her people are testing the waters to see if this is the right vehicle for her and if a major studio will get behind the project."

The movie, which regularly tops lists of the greatest films ever made, includes the classic song As Time Goes By and memorable quotes such as: "Here's looking at you, kid", "We'll always have Paris" and "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine".

But one of the lines most closely associated with Casablanca – "Play it again, Sam"– is a misquotation. In fact, Ilsa says: "Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake. Play it, Sam." Later, Rick says: "You played it for her and you can play it for me. If she can stand it, I can. Play it!"

Bollywood filmmaker Rajeev Nath is also said to be working on a remake set in India, calling it "a tribute to the original".

A spokeswoman for Madonna refused to comment.

And here's how she might 'improve' the classic script

Of all the Kabbalah meetings in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

Here's looking at you, kid. Now who do we have to pay to adopt him?

We'll always have Basra... I think this is the beginning of a beautiful fitness regime...

I stick my neck out for nobody - just in case they see the wrinkles.

It doesn't take much to see that Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction arsenal didn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

If you watch this remake, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

If this really happens... there will be blood!

How can they fucking consider this? The only way it could make money is if people want to see how retarded this woman and her stupid remake are... and even then what is the fucking point? I hope this is bullshit because from all the stupid remakes and all the stupid hollywood actors this is by far the worst possible scenario.

early April Fools prank?

madonna is an evil force that must be stopped.

I say remake it. A bad Madonna adaptation will be dependent on the plot structure of the original. It will show some people that the original wasn't based on any ingenuity at all. You remake Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. and you still have an excellent idea for a film, but with Casablanca you have a film that exists as a classic through no talent of its own. The film is technically awful but beloved because of public lore.

you're wrong again.  just because you can't like the movie due to your own failure to write about it doesn't mean the rest of people who love it are idiots. 

Quote from: pete on March 31, 2008, 06:57:42 PM
you're wrong again.  just because you can't like the movie due to your own failure to write about it doesn't mean the rest of people who love it are idiots. 

Haha, my own failure to write about it? Explain that one.

Most people I know who adore the film do so with concessions. They understand the technical limitations and accept what they love about the film has more to do with their emotions than what the movie really has to offer. Everyone likes some movies they cannot defend. Their personality just gives in to what they see. I do this with a few action movies and people do with it Casablanca. My choices stay as trash to the public while Casablanca is ballooned into a preposterous idea of art by too many. 

I was trying to look up a scene from "What's Up Doc" when it leads me to the piano scene from Casablanca, which leads me to the goodbye scene from there.  I've only seen the movie once, based on a fervent recommendation from a friend when I was a senior in high school.  I thought it was good but soon had forgotten about the movie until those two youtube clips.  I rather liked the timing of your post because I would've agreed with its ridiculous claim had I not spent four minutes staring at my computer monitor last week. 

QuoteThey understand the technical limitations and accept what they love about the film has more to do with their emotions than what the movie really has to offer.

Of course one's "love" for something has more to do with his emotions.  As much as I find your outlook on film to be entirely wrong, arrogant, and disgusting, I really thought you'd be above "people only like it because it's the thing to do" and that type of laziness. 

Quote from: pete on March 31, 2008, 08:15:16 PM
Of course one's "love" for something has more to do with his emotions.  As much as I find your outlook on film to be entirely wrong, arrogant, and disgusting, I really thought you'd be above "people only like it because it's the thing to do" and that type of laziness. 

Arrogance is good - up to a point. People love to love all kinds of movies. Arrogance helps place standards on movies so you can discriminate against films that you think is below a critical tier. Of course carrying this attitude to everyday conversation is assholish because most people don't take movies seriously, but it is still necessary when dealing seriously with films yourself.

Of course I am happy you don't like my viewpoint because I have zero consideration for your opinion. Your arrogance is ridiculous because you believe there is a right and a wrong when looking at films. I don't take my opinions that seriously. Plus your opinion on movies seems to come from whatever is motivating your gut that day. Of course you try to rationalize it with bullshit pie in the sky ideas, remarks about "soulfulness" and other things that make no sense. You are no different than a child who likes things based on whatever fancies their interest. Then you defend old actions like how you publically hated Gladiator for years before seeing it because knew you would hate it.

I'm not above the Casablanca comment because I've made my opinion known on the film for years. I've written extensively about it. I don't need to reaffirm every idea I have about the film everytime it comes up in any conversation. My point about Casablanca in the public realm is a legitimate one.

things that you cannot grasp is pie in the sky, because tastes must be quantified.  I don't know if I believe that there is a right way when looking at films, but I do know that your way is wrong.  Wrong because you breed self-hatred which leaks into everything you've written, whenever a film is discussed.

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Plus your opinion on movies seems to come from whatever is motivating your gut that day.

so how I feel about movies depends on how I feel, and you've failed to grasp that as well.  I liked your childhood simile because I have one of my own too.  You're that kid who makes up the rules to everything you do, you never learned how to play, and when other kids show no regard for your rules, you get mad. 

Quote from: pete on April 01, 2008, 12:33:06 AM
things that you cannot grasp is pie in the sky, because tastes must be quantified.  I don't know if I believe that there is a right way when looking at films, but I do know that your way is wrong.  Wrong because you breed self-hatred which leaks into everything you've written, whenever a film is discussed.

I doubt you even understand my perspective. The people who do take the time to argue me on a general basis do it very well and can see my points as rational. You're also very casual with referencing Werner Herzog's quote when how he said 95% of films suck in a given year, but do you really believe it? Do you even understand the number of films that it entails? You're too happy go lucky with accepting films to be like that. It's fine if you want to be like but stop quoting the man, for god's sake.

But, I'd also hate to have someone like you believe in the good of my opinion so try to rationalize what I said above.

Quote from: pete on April 01, 2008, 12:33:06 AM
so how I feel about movies depends on how I feel, and you've failed to grasp that as well.  I liked your childhood simile because I have one of my own too.  You're that kid who makes up the rules to everything you do, you never learned how to play, and when other kids show no regard for your rules, you get mad. 

What a stupid analogy to make for one of the few members who loves and plays sports.

Gut has nothing to do with feelings. Gut acceptance is about taking something and accepting it because it moved wowed you on the most basic levels. Movies are a candy entertainment with a lot of attractive appeals and gut acceptance has to do with the displays of certain cinematography's, certain sympathetic storylines, certain shooting techniques, and certain other things that make you think all of a film is good when what you were really were impressed with was just a portion of the film. Feelings and intelligence are on hand when you take issue with all of the film. You go so nuts with picking small likes of a film that it allows you to be overwhelmed and cloud your perception.

man, waking up to this is kinda annoying, but fun at the same time.  Arguing about Casablanca is quickly turning into nothing.

because Casablanca is a great film, and you just keep on quoting things that I've said that have nothing to do with each other, and expect me to defend the points that I don't give a shit about.  And you keep on asking me if I understand what I'm quoting.  It's like everytime I pick on you, I expect to hear a lot of good arguments because you're so hellbent on being able to defend everything, but a closer look always reveals that everything is just a bullshit illusion.  I tried to be empathetic before, but you seemed to hate it.  Since I don't really care about what you love and hate, I'll say it again.  You're way more quickly to show emotional bias towards particular subjects and films and disregarding other criteria than me.  Your reviews give away more about your personal frustrations and anger than me.  This is fine, except that you're an one-note angry child, getting mad mostly at people with not just taste that is different from yours but a way of looking at films different from yours as well.  Your idea of arguing about film is essentially asking people to play your game, you've spent so much time crafting your fort, but when people say "that's not me" or try to circumvent it, you stomp your feet and get angry, and you get really angry at me, so angry that you try hurling anything that might hurt me.  That is too bad, 'cause I always thought you were a lot of fun.  I might not have respected your bullshit essays, but I am quite fascinated by your anger.  Not anymore though.

random points for your random jabs -

• Herzog was talking about the films he'd seen at the festivals, so I do understand the number.
• Your disowning gut from feelings while happily linking it to "intellect" needs to be linked to intellect.
• my childhood analogy wasn't a sports one.  I am a pretty dedicated boxer though, if that counts.
• you went on to ramble about the all seeing all seeing all of the film and the bigger picture, as if that was so hard.  fuck, I've sat through a movie and not liked it before.

Quote from: pete on April 03, 2008, 11:01:16 AM
man, waking up to this is kinda annoying, but fun at the same time.  Arguing about Casablanca is quickly turning into nothing.

It never was an argument about Casablanca. You never said why it was great. You just said it was. I didn't say much more myself, but I was always replying more to the jabs in between your posts. I briefly replied to a point you made about Casablanca, but it was never really about Casablanca.

Quote from: pete on April 03, 2008, 11:01:16 AM
It's like everytime I pick on you, I expect to hear a lot of good arguments because you're so hellbent on being able to defend everything, but a closer look always reveals that everything is just a bullshit illusion.  I tried to be empathetic before, but you seemed to hate it.

It's hard to make sense of most of your posts. You go on different tangents without much clue or direction. You also have the most philosophically sparse arguments. You say things that could constitute as an idea, but you don't surround it with much information or context. You just go onto the next random revelation you have. I like to actually argue with people who make points.

Quote from: pete on April 03, 2008, 11:01:16 AM
Since I don't really care about what you love and hate, I'll say it again.  You're way more quickly to show emotional bias towards particular subjects and films and disregarding other criteria than me.  Your reviews give away more about your personal frustrations and anger than me.

I definitely do have a bias and I'll be the first one to admit it. I also show it a lot on this forum, but its because I have to. So many members will argue the most general entertainment flicks as 'best film' this or 'great film' that. They will cross reference these films with other films I don't think deserve mention in the same paragraph. If I have any chance to actually make arguments with these people about those films then I do need to make my position known of how I see the film they think it is a masterpiece. While they see art, I many times just see entertainment. If I didn't make distinctions between how I viewed these films I would have no chance to make any argument with them at all. I'm much more a structuralist than most members. It's just part of my viewpoint.

Quote from: pete on April 03, 2008, 11:01:16 AM
This is fine, except that you're an one-note angry child, getting mad mostly at people with not just taste that is different from yours but a way of looking at films different from yours as well.  Your idea of arguing about film is essentially asking people to play your game, you've spent so much time crafting your fort, but when people say "that's not me" or try to circumvent it, you stomp your feet and get angry, and you get really angry at me, so angry that you try hurling anything that might hurt me.  That is too bad, 'cause I always thought you were a lot of fun.  I might not have respected your bullshit essays, but I am quite fascinated by your anger.  Not anymore though.

Ever since you started making your points against me personal (and I warned you about what was personal), I decided my grudges with you would hold no more patience or concern for your feelings. I can't respect you because you don't say shit so yes, you get the grudge version of myself. I'll probably learn for my mistakes of dealing with you by trying better to avvoid you or realize you are a clown personality like others have told me, but I'm still harboring some resentment so forgive me for these posts.

But no, your description of me with others is wrong. If you mean "play my game" by me writing a review with solid points and some people questioning me and not what I have to say, then yes I can show a little frustation. I've never resorted to name calling (with exception to you and someone else) but I will directly ask them why they respond to my reviews with just assumptions about who I am. Some people want to think I hate all movies because I've been unfavorable to their favorite movie, but I think I have a sensible approach and can compliment movies. If you look at most of my essays on Green Screen you will see most are in favor of certain movies. Of course most of those essays got no replies and are overlooked because of the few famous films I have gone against, but after the posting of my There Will be Blood dissent later this week or early next week, I'm going directly into an essay to why I love Good Will Hunting so much.

Quote from: pozer on February 24, 2008, 12:46:20 PM
just stop.

Quote from: pozer on April 25, 2008, 04:27:43 PM

Quote from: pozer on February 24, 2008, 12:46:20 PM
just stop.

It did. Thanks for your useless post. Do you want to make a dead subject a new argument?

sorry, ive been away. 

Clooney Flocks to The Birds?
Oscar winner rumored for Hitchcock remake.

Rod Taylor, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as attorney Mitch Brenner, has spilled the beans about which A-list star is in the running to play Mitch in Universal's remake.

Metro.co.uk reports that Taylor informed Britain's Daily Express, "I often cringe when I hear mention of remakes but I'll hold judgement, especially since I've been told [George] Clooney's the favourite."

Naomi Watts will play female lead Melanie Daniels, the role first played by Tippi Hedren. Hedren is not keen on seeing The Birds get remade, having previously told the Express, "Can't we find new stories, new things to do? Must you be so insecure that you have to take a film that's a classic and try to do it over?"

Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) is attached to direct The Birds for Platinum Dunes and Mandalay Pictures.

I would love to see Clooney scaring some blond girl shitless in a crow suit by yelling "KAW".

hehe...funny stuff.

New 'Bonnie and Clyde' has duo circling
Hilary Duff, Kevin Zegers in talks to play the bank robbers
Source: Hollywood Reporter

The story of Bonnie and Clyde is getting a retelling, with Hilary Duff and Kevin Zegers in negotiations to play the infamous 1930s bank robbers.

Tonya S. Holly is directing "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde" and producing the indie drama with Tom Rogers via her Cypress Moon Studios.

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were Depression-era lovers and outlaws whose exploits captured the public's imagination. Their story has hit the big screen several times, with 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde," starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, considered a classic.

The makers are stressing that the new film is not a remake and are promising to showcase times in the couple's lives not seen onscreen before. Holly first became interested in the story of the fugitive lovers after finding old newspaper articles about their exploits in an abandoned house on her family's property.

Holly most recently wrote, produced and directed the family film "When I Find the Ocean," which stars Lee Majors, Diane Ladd and Graham Greene.

"Bonnie" is scheduled to shoot in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Zegers' credits include "The Stone Angel," "The Jane Austen Book Club" and "Transamerica." The actor, repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment, most recently starred with Ben Kingsley and Jim Sturgess in "Fifty Dead Men Walking."

Duff, whose most recent feature role was "War Inc.," is repped by WMA and Curtis Talent Management. She just signed to star in the NBC comedy "Barely Legal" under her development deal with the network.

tonya s holly, you just made my list.

i wasn't ready for this. i could handle the idea of Bonnie and Clyde being remade, sure it's stupid but everything is being remade now and i've become pretty good at forgetting these shitty remakes even exist. but.. then.. hilary duff. no.

what's next? i don't want to know. i don't.

Alien Remake Talk
It's enough to make your chest burst.

It's one thing to remake, redo, reboot, or whatever you want to call it a genre picture like Friday the 13th or even Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but when you start to get into the realm of the truly great films, then the question must be asked: Why even bother?

That's the subject on many horror/sci-fi fans' minds today with the word coming that Ridley Scott's classic Alien may be up for the redux treatment over at Fox. Blood Disgusting is reporting that one of their insider tipsters -- the same person who correctly predicted the Predator remake -- has told the site that an Alien remake is in the works and that "the plan is to stick with the original concept of only one alien on the ship."

Ridley Scott would produce along with Michael Costigan and Tony Scott, while commercial director Carl Rinsch is named as the director on the project.

This, of course, is all rumor at this point, and in fact BD subsequently updated its report with word from a "separate reliable source" that Fox is "possibly working on an origins story, as opposed to a straight-up remake." So it seems that at the very least something is brewing in xenomorph land over at Fox, and it isn't another Alien Vs. Predator sequel.

Next up: remakes of Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and 2001.

NO! JUST FUCKING NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT! STOP! STOP! STOP! SOMEONE KILL THE SCOTT BROTHERS!!!!!!! FUCKING KILL THEM! SHOOT THEM IN THE FACE BEFORE THIS HAPPENS! BURY THEM ALIVE! BURN THEM SO TEHY CANT BE REANIMATED!!!!! NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT! DIE DIE DIE!!!!

i feel that is the appropriate response to everything posted in the last 18 pages.

Jesus Christ on a Crutch.....This is disappointing.

More proof that Fox is basically Hollywood's fuck-up uncle.

Quote from: squints on May 28, 2009, 03:44:36 PM
i feel that is the appropriate response to everything posted in the last 18 pages.

Yes. It's really out of hand now. They remake anything, anytime. Nobody seems to care. Next we'll see remakes of movies made only a few years ago. Its retarded.

Quote from: kal on May 28, 2009, 08:20:48 PMNext we'll see remakes of movies made only a few years ago. Its retarded.

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i don't know how they can possibly make Alien new/better, but i'm not going to poo-poo the idea until i see some evidence it'll actually suck. this is SUCH a vague idea right now. and it's not like they're bringing in michael bay or anything. i wish it the best.

How is a Alien remake not a Alien sequel ?

The only way I get behind the remake is if Chris Cunningham does it.

Quote from: Pas Rap on May 28, 2009, 09:57:19 PM
How is a Alien remake not a Alien sequel ?

Because they have so little creativity that its worse than a sequel. A sequel would mean putting thought into a continuation of the story, the characters, etc. It would still suck terribly bad, but it requires some creativity to write something new.

The remake on the other hand is using the same fucking script and everything and just make the explosions bigger, the dialogue less interesting, and put some hot new star to draw audiences and thats it.

And Vanilla Sky is not what I meant, because that is a remake of a foreign film, which makes a bit more sense. The Departed was also a remake and was not bad, and there very few other examples like that. With remakes for old films, there is almost zero cases where the new film has been equal or better than the original.

it's not automatically a bad idea. it's just prone to badness because the idea to remake is usually money-motivated. but great remakes happen. there are plenty.

Quote from: picolas on May 29, 2009, 12:35:15 AM
it's not automatically a bad idea. it's just prone to badness because the idea to remake is usually money-motivated. but great remakes happen. there are plenty.

Like which ones? I think there may be a few, but the great majority are crap.

The Thing, Cape Fear, Ocean's Eleven, Dawn of the Dead, 12 Monkeys, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Bourne Identity, 3:10 to Yuma, The Ring, Nosferatu, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Last of the Mohicans, Insomnia, The End of the Affair, Traffic...

Granted, that's only a handful, and even some of those are questionable.  But certainly "remake" is not automatically a curse word.

maybe two of the films you listed were "great" remakes.  the others were just movies that were kinda fun.  whether or not a lot of them were remakes was also questionable - since a good number of them were based on books.  bottomline DON'T DEFEND THE REMAKES.  we'll eat our own words if we're wrong but dude, fucking, it's an awful trend.

Quote from: polkablues on May 29, 2009, 01:43:30 AM
The Thing, Cape Fear, Ocean's Eleven, Dawn of the Dead, 12 Monkeys, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Bourne Identity, 3:10 to Yuma, The Ring, Nosferatu, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Last of the Mohicans, Insomnia, The End of the Affair, Traffic...

Quote from: polkablues on May 29, 2009, 01:43:30 AM
The Thing, Cape Fear, Ocean's Eleven, Dawn of the Dead, 12 Monkeys, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Bourne Identity, 3:10 to Yuma, The Ring, Nosferatu, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Last of the Mohicans, Insomnia, The End of the Affair, Traffic...

Granted, that's only a handful, and even some of those are questionable.  But certainly "remake" is not automatically a curse word.

Yeah like I said, there are a few decent ones, but there is a dozen films in your list going back to the 80's and now they are pretty much making 50 remakes a year. I think Nosferatu doesn't count just for being such a classic character, same as I would not necessarily count Superman or Batman. The Ring is once again a remake from a foreign film, so it also does not go with what I was saying. Traffic if I'm not mistaken was a foreign TV show also, not a classic movie. Bourne Identity I thought it was based on the book and not a previous movie.

Anyway, point is, the great majority are bullshit. There are very few good examples.

Some of the ones I am  looking forward to and hope they don't suck are: Alice in Wonderland, Flash Gordon, The Neverending Story.

All those other movies mentioned weren't certified classics of cinema.

I put remaking Alien in the same vein as a remake of something like 2001. It's not just some action movie that was fun, but shitty. Alien is a certified classic despite it's genre.

Quote from: pete on May 29, 2009, 09:55:13 AM
but dude, fucking, it's an awful trend thread.

The Alien remake is still just a rumor. No official sources have confirmed it.

The original Nosferatu certainly was a classic. It was remade for good intentions and the results were fine. Of course the remake waited almost 60 years before being made so it wasn't on everyone's list of favorite movies. I don't give a shit about any of the Alien movies so I don't care, but anytime I also think about my favorite movies being remade, I still don't really care. If anything a remake will bring about an awesome new DVD of said favorite movie. Other than that a remake doesn't change a thing about my relationship with the original. If anything, a bad remake will make me appreciate it more.

The instances I would care is with the Star Wars and E.T. updates. Making them look more modern was unnecessary and destroyed a lot of memories for fans in how they felt.

I was mostly playing devil's advocate; the only truly great remakes on that list are End of the Affair, Cape Fear, and The Thing (12 Monkeys is close).  The rest are either so-so or don't really technically qualify.

An Alien Prequel is in the Works
Source:Bloody-Disgusting, Collider

Rumors coming out of Bloody-Disgusting stated that 20th Century Fox was interested in relaunching the Alien franchise with some sort of reboot or remake, following the recent news that Robert Rodriguez would be doing the same thing for 20th Century Fox's other sci-fi creature franchise, Predator.

While there was no confirmation from the Fox camp or the trades, Collider's roving reporter "Frosty" cornered director Tony Scott at the press conference for his own remake of The Taking of Pelham 123 to get confirmation and learned that Scott-Free Productions is indeed producing a remake with director Carl Rinsch helming.

They hope that the movie, which is meant act as a prequel to Ridley Scott's original 1979 classic Alien, will be shooting by the end of the year. The original Bloody-Disgusting story suggested that they would return to the original concept of just one alien creature, and that they'd be looking for a new "Ripley."

Bride of Frankenstein comes to life
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Universal and Imagine are breathing new life into "Bride of Frankenstein."

The companies are in talks with Neil Burger to write and direct their long-stirring remake of the 1935 monster movie. Burger, who would pen the script with writing partner Dirk Wittenborn, most prominently wrote and helmed "The Illusionist," the Edward Norton magician mystery that earned nearly $40 million for Yari Film Group in 2006.

James Whale's "Bride of Frankenstein," which starred Boris Karloff as the monster and Elsa Lanchester as the titular bride, continued the story that began with 1931's "Frankenstein." A monster, on the run from an angry mob, has a series of adventures, and also persuades Dr. Frankenstein to create a mate. The doctor is successful, but the bride (who is not a central character) winds up rejecting the monster at the end of the movie.

The CAA-repped Burger, who also penned and helmed Iraq-veteran pic "The Lucky Ones," is attached to direct "Dark Fields," a thriller about a slacker who discovers a drug that makes him sharper. That pic is also set up at Universal, but progress has been slowed since star Shia LaBeouf was forced to pull out last year with a hand injury.

"Bride" has had a series of stops and starts. About five years ago, "American Splendor" scribes Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini were attached to write the screenplay for the Uni/Imagine update. Their concept was to set the picture in contemporary New York, with a young woman dying and then unnaturally brought back to life (Burger's version is expected to differ significantly from that concept). Jacob Estes, a writer on Spider-Man spinoff "Venom," also at one point had been attached to write a draft.

Brian Grazer and Sean Daniel will produce the pic;  Karen Kehela, David Bernardi and Chris Wade will oversee for Imagine.

Universal is eager to develop reboots of its library of classic monster titles, insiders in the development community said. It is developing a new version of "Creature from the Black Lagoon," the 1954 Jack Arnold pic about a monstrous fish that a group of travelers encounters in the Amazon, and later this year it will release the Benicio Del Toro-toplined "The Wolf Man," an update on George Waggner's 1941 werewolf tale.

"Frankenstein" has been remade numerous times — Mary Shelley's book sits in the public domain — but "Bride" has had only one other go-round on the big screen: a 1985 version at Columbia starring Sting and Jennifer Beals. In 1999, Bill Condon's "Gods and Monsters," a biopic of Whale, showed clips from the film and re-created the bride herself.

God DAMN it.

Poltergeist Remake Coming on November 24, 2010!
Source: ShockTillYouDrop.com

ShockTillYouDrop.com has learned that MGM's planned remake of Tobe Hooper's classic '80s haunted house movie Poltergeist has received a release date of November 24, 2010, Thanksgiving weekend. With director Vadim Perelman (House of Sand and Fog) attached since last September, the production has been in development a long time with a script surfacing last year, but so far, no cast has been announced and no information about where or when they might start filming.

IS LEONARDO DICAPRIO THE THIRD MAN?
Source: CHUD

File this one under rumor, but it's a pretty solid rumor or I wouldn't be running it. This is still early enough in the game that it could all fall apart, but it's also late enough in the game that it could be officially announced in a week or two.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire might be starring in a remake of the classic Carol Reed film The Third Man, which is being written by Eastern Promises screenwriter Steven Knight. The package comes from Canal Plus and it's going out for bidding, and the bidding is likely to be fierce. That's a hell of a line-up, after all. And it's before they have a director in place.

The big question is who plays what? Would DiCaprio take on the lead role of Holly Martins, the pulp author who comes to post-WWII Vienna for the funeral of his friend Harry Lime, or would he take on Harry Lime himself, a shadowy figure immortalized by Orson Welles? My money's on Leo stepping into Welles' shoes and with Maguire playing Holly.

The next big question is what's the setting? Would it be set in modern day Baghdad? Or would Knight find another setting in which to set up Harry Lime's racket (do it scifi!)? And then there's another big question - do you keep Harry Lime's famous ferris wheel monologue, one of the greatest in cinema history? You sort of have to... but you also don't want to be the guys who redo something perfect.

Then again, with that line of thinking nobody would be remaking The Third Man.

Hmph. I read that on CHUD this morning, and I've been thinking about how completely wrong Leo is for Harry Lime. He's just not BIG enough. Orson Welles stepping out of that doorway is one of the biggest reveals in cinema, and it's because it's both well done and it's fucking Welles. He is grandiose and super human, so when we see him, it's like a fucking lightning bolt. Leo would hardly be a jolt at all (and Tobey is just wrong wrong wrong for Holly Martins).

Now Leo as Holly Martins? Yes, that'd do. But who is BIG enough to play Harry Lime, i.e. replace Welles? It would have to be almost parody, like Tarantino stepping out of the shadows. Or oozing charm, like George Clooney. Or star power, like Tom Cruise. Or legit bigness, like DDL.

And what about the zither score? And a writer with the caliber of Graham Greene? This is bad no matter who's on board.

A new 'Wizard of Oz' could make its way down the Hollywood road
Source: Los Angeles Times

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off Disney's massive success with Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," Warner Bros. wants to remake another childhood classic. Like, really classic.

The studio is examining two existing "Wizard of Oz" projects, with an eye toward giving one of them a modern gloss and moving it toward the screen.

One project, called "Oz," currently lives at Warner's New Line label. It's being produced by Temple Hill, which is behind a little franchise called "Twilight," and has a script written by Darren Lemke, a writer on the upcoming "Shrek Forever After."

A second "Wizard of Oz" project, set up at Warners proper, skews a little darker -- it's written by "A History of Violence" screenwriter Josh Olson and focuses on a granddaughter of Dorothy who returns to Oz to fight evil. "Clash of the Titans" producer Basil Iwanyk and his Thunder Road Pictures are behind that one. ("Spawn" creator Todd MacFarlane is potentially involved in a producerial capacity, to give you some idea of the tone.)

While the idea of a new "Wizard of Oz" movie is said to be in the development, let's-bat-this-around stage, it's been advanced seriously enough on the lot that representatives for some of the top directors around Hollywood have been briefed.

The Judy Garland-starring "The Wizard of Oz" from 1939 -- we could give you the refresher on witches, tin men, Dorothy and everyone else, but really, do we need to? -- has been given alternative treatments before. There was the 1978 black-themed film adaptation of the stage play "The Wiz." And of course about six years ago came the Broadway adaptation of Gregory Maguire's "Wicked," an alternative story of girls, witches and  Emerald City politics. The property proved a huge stage hit, prompting a film version that's in development at Universal and "Wanted" producer Marc Platt.

Audiences are likely to respond to the idea of a new silver screen "Wizard of Oz" with gusto ("at least the first one was good," said one colleague we told) or with horror, precisely because the original is such a classic.

But for Warners, there's plenty of appeal in trying to take the story of Dorothy & Co. back to the big screen. For one, there's the bonkers $210 million global opening for "Alice," which shows that if you're trying to create a mega-blockbuster, one smart way to do it is to take a title people know and update it for the effects era. And there's a neat symmetry, since the Technicolor version of the classic film did for color in the movies what a lot of people say that "Avatar," "Alice" -- and now, perhaps, "Wizard" -- could do for 3-D in the movies.

With its Harry Potter series drawing to an end, Warners also likes the idea of a franchise, and "Wizard of Oz" and the many books L. Frank Baum wrote featuring many of the same characters (all of which are in the public domain) fit the bill nicely. And let's not forget the property's strong, young female protagonist, hugely in vogue now in the post -Twilight" and -"Alice" eras.

There could still be questions about the project's title (the book's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is in the public domain but the movie's "The Wizard of Oz" is not; it's owned by MGM, whose library is partly owned by Warner Bros.). And then there's the matter of whether filmmakers would make the movie with musical elements, as the original, of course, did. Those questions aside, it could be the moneymaking formula.

Follow the yellow brick road. It's strewn with CGI, tent poles and 3-D. And, of course, a little green.

'Point Break' to Be Remade by Alcon and Warner Bros.
The original 1991 movie, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starred Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze.
Source: THR

Point Break, the 1991 thriller set against the world of surfing, is getting an extreme-sports make-over, courtesy of Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros.

In the original film, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Keanu Reeves starred as Johnny Utah, an undercover FBI agent looking for a gang of bank robbers, led by Patrick Swayze's Bodhi, amid the Southern California surfing scene. The new version, with a screenplay by Kurt Wimmer (Salt), will be set in the world of international extreme sports and also involve an FBI agent infiltrating a criminal ring.

Alcon co-founders and ce-CEOS Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson secured rights to the project, which is marking its 20th anniversary, from Singapore-headquartered RGM Media, John McMurrick and Chris Taylor. Kosove and Johnson will produce along with Michael DeLuca, John Baldecchi, Taylor and Wimmer. RGM Media principal Devesh Chetty and investor McMurrick, chairman of Marloss Entertainment, will serve as executive producers.

The film, which Warners will distribute, is being fast tracked, with the filmmakers set to take the project out to directors soon. The original movie was produced by Largo Entertainment and released by Fox. In addition to the feature rights, Alcon has also secured television and gaming rights to Point Break.

"Who doesn't love the Kathryn Bigelow original and its pure heart-pounding action and thrills? Kurt's take infuses the story and characters with new twists and settings," Broderick and Kosove said.

"Point Break wasn't just a film, it was a Zen meditation on testosterone fueled action and manhood in the late 20th century and we hope to create the same for the young 21st!," DeLuca added.

KURT FUCKING WIMMER?

fuckin' DeLuca.

Lionsgate Plots Microbudget Remake Of 'American Psycho'
Source: Deadline

Noble Jones, who cut his teeth directing commercials, videos for Taylor Swift and Mary J. Blige, and handling second unit for David Fincher on The Social Network, hopes to make his feature directing debut on an updated low budget remake of  American Psycho. Jones, who was Grammy nominated for his documentary 10 Days Out: Blues From the Backroads, is a Fincher protege who pitched the project months ago to Lionsgate, which holds the remake rights. Jones turned in a script about a month ago, but the project has suddenly become buzzed about because it hit the tracking reports that have become the cornerstone of trade reporting. His take was to tap the Bret Easton Ellis novel and turn it into a down and dirty new version that imagines how yuppie serial killer Patrick Bateman would fare in New York today, factoring in how the world has changed since the 2000 film that starred Christian Bale. Noble's repped by WME and Anonymous Content.

Top Ten things we'd like to see in the 'American Psycho' remake (http://litreactor.com/columns/top-10-things-wed-like-to-see-in-the-american-psycho-remake)

I'm still unenthused.

MGM/Screen Gems Eye Kimberly Peirce To Direct Remake Of Stephen King's 'Carrie'
BY MIKE FLEMING | Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Kimberly Peirce is in talks to direct Carrie, the remake of the Stephen King thriller about the telekinetic teenager who gets pushed too far at the prom and wreaks havoc on her fellow high school students. Peirce is best known for helming another troubled female coming-of-age tragedy, the Hilary Swank-starrer Boys Don't Cry. Carrie was previously turned into the 1976 film that starred Sissy Spacek, John Travolta and Amy Irving, with Piper Laurie as the repressive mother. The script has been written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, whose rewrite work helped save Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark on Broadway. Aguirre-Sacasa set out to write a version of Carrie that is more faithful to the King book, and more grounded than the Brian De Palma-directed film. That kind of grounded material is something Peirce does well. She last directed Stop-Loss and is repped at CAA.