Remake Remake Fucking Remake

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he was on the daily show a couple of days ago.
First time i had heard about The Groomsmen

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Clooney Confirmed for Pet Sematary Redo?
Source: Bloody-Disgusting

Back in early 2004 it was rumored that George Clooney would play Doc Cage in a remake of Pet Sematary, and now Bloody-Disgusting says it is indeed happening.

That same year, news was released that Paramount Pictures had hired horror specialist Dave Kajganich to write the Alphaville project. The Face/Off scripting team of Mike Werb and Michael Colleary wrote the first draft.

Pet Sematary is based on Stephen King's story of a family moving to a small Maine town with a pet cemetery and an Indian burial ground.

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Someone must have seen my avatar  :

Corman Talks New Death Race

Legendary B-movie producer and writer Roger Corman told SCI FI Wire that he is involved with the much-anticipated remake of his classic 1970s cult film Death Race 2000. "I'm working with them a little bit, ... but not much," Corman said in an interview while promoting his latest projects at the recent Comic-Con International in San Diego. The original film starred David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone as drivers in a futuristic game in which motorists kill unsuspecting pedestrians for points.

The new film, Death Race 3000, is being written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil). Corman detailed his involvement. "Technically, according to the contract, I am executive producer," he said. "They send me each script; I have discussion and send my notes, but I don't spend that much time on it, because I don't believe I will have that much influence."

Reflecting on the popularity of the original, Corman said: "I like Death Race 2000 very much. It won a poll as the greatest B movie ever made. I think what made it work was the idea of killing the old lady and getting 10 points. And, also, we were talking really about the manipulation of society and the bloodlust that was in it. I thought if you go back to gladiatorial games—if you look at wrestling and these various things that are brutal—the audience loves it. You go to car races, and everybody wants to see the crashes. So it was partially that which led to Death Race 2000." Death Race 3000 is on target for a 2008 release in theaters.

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Corman Talks New Death Race

Weird... this is so old that I thought it had already been made and forgotten about.

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The new film, Death Race 3000, is being written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil).

haha, sweet. i don't think i've ever been let down by one of his movies (i even kinda liked AVP).

i just looked at his imdb page. apparently, he's doing a castlevania movie.
aaaand he's fucking milla jovovich????

you bet, chuck. you bet.

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Simpson Considering Becoming a 'Working Girl'
By WENN

HOLLYWOOD - Jessica Simpson is in talks to reprise Melanie Griffith's Oscar-nominated role in 1988 movie Working Girl.

The Dukes of Hazzard beauty is looking to take her first lead role, and believes playing Tess McGill, the cute-faced secretary with dreams of being the boss, is perfect for her.

Her representative tells the New York Daily News, "It is one of the scripts Jessica is considering."

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Craven Left Remake
Source: Moviehole

The fine tradition of serving up warm sloppy seconds continues...

Hot on the heels of his "Hills Have Eyes" remake, Variety announces that another old Wes Craven film – in fact, the one that kicked off his career – is about to get the remake treatment. Yep, "The Last House on the Left" is about to get a contemporary makeover.

Rogue Pictures have assigned Craven, who wrote and directed the original, long-time partner Marianne Maddalena, and Sean S. Cunningham, producer of the original, to produce the remake – which starts filming in 2007.

Rogue will retain worldwide rights for the redo, which follows the same storyline. A pair of adventurous teen girls are kidnapped, raped and murdered by a gang of thugs. The killers unwittingly hole up in the home of one victim's parents, who, upon realizing what their guests did, devise gruesome revenge.

The same article mentions that Craven is also in talks to remake his – flops (!) – "Shocker" and "The People Under the Stairs".

[Ravi]

This thread is updated too often.

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wow, they are remaking a 70's horror film.  what will they think of next?!  atleast the original sucked, but its not as if the premise was so good that it should be remade.

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Ingmar Bergman should remake The Last House on the Left.  I wonder what that would be like!

And isn't The People Under The Stairs less than 15 years old?  Remaking a 90s horror movie is a pretty interesting move.

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Remaking a 90s horror movie is a pretty interesting move.

you wont be saying that in the 2010's...

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Today's Remake News: Hitchcock's The Lodger
Source: Cinematical

The Production Weekly website reported earlier today that David Ondaatje announced his intentions to remake Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 silent film, The Lodger (based on a book by Marie Adelaide Lowndes). Though the story of the original Lodger was "about a fictional version of the Jack The Ripper killings," Ondaatje's version will (of course) be shifted to the present day. According to the PW piece, the film will examine a series of mysterious, Ripper-esque killings from two different points of view. The first is that a of a detective who is both trying to solve the case and dealing with the fact that he's one of the prime suspects in the killings; the second comes from a landlady, who becomes increasingly convinced that one of her tenants is the killer. I know I'm usually opposed to remakes and all, but this sounds sort of great -- or at least like fodder for a great novel. Whether Ondaatje's is a good enough writer and director to pull it off on screen remains to be seen.

If nothing else, Ondaatje will approach his subject with respect: He made a Hitchcock-inspired short called Waiting for Dr. MacGuffin, as well as a documentary, Undressing Hitchcock, which "studies the technical, cinematic innovations" of the director. Production on The Lodger is expected to begin in LA in early 2007.

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Branagh Directing the Sleuth Remake
Source: Variety

Kenneth Branagh will direct the remake of Sleuth, starring Jude Law and Michael Caine. Harold Pinter adapted the Anthony Shaffer play.

Financing was arranged by Castle Rock, and the film will shoot in January at Twickenham Studios in London.

It's the second time Shaffer's play is getting movie treatment, and the second time Caine is playing a major role in the drama that revolves around two men vying for the same woman.

This time, Caine will play a brilliant thriller writer and social fixture who's so upset at losing his wife to a young hairdresser (Law) that he hatches a complex revenge plan. Caine played the hairdresser in the original and Laurence Olivier played the writer.

Both got Oscar nominations for the 1972 original film, as did director Joseph Mankiewicz.

Law is stepping into a screen role originated by Caine for the second time, after Alfie.

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"Great Chefs" set to be killed again

Warner Bros. Pictures is going back into the kitchen to solve the mystery of "Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?"

The studio is remaking the 1978 comedy-mystery -- which starred George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Morley -- this time to be titled "Who Is Killing the Great Chefs?"

The film centers on an obese editor of a food magazine who decides the only way he can lose weight is to kill the cooks who have created his favorite dishes. That includes a gorgeous dessert chef, whose ex-husband is trying to win her back.

Oliver Platt, who was nominated for an Emmy for his work on Showtime's "Huff," is attached to reprise Morley's role as the ex-husband.

Veteran comedy scribe David A. Goodman, a writer-executive producer on "Family Guy," has signed to write the remake.

[Ravi]

Veteran comedy scribe David A. Goodman, a writer-executive producer on "Family Guy," has signed to write the remake.

"Remember the time you had lunch with Wolfgang Puck on the moon?"