Thanks to Todd Mason for the link.
Reviving RKO's horror heyday - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety: "Andy Fickman has made a deal with Roseblood Movie Company and Twisted Pictures to godfather four remakes from RKO's horror heyday, including three that were produced by horrormeister Val Lewton. Fickman will direct at least one of the films.
Roseblood is the horror/thriller division of RKO Pictures, and Twisted is the horror division of Evolution Entertainment, financiers and producers of the Saw series. The companies will co-finance the films.
The remake properties are the Jacques Tourneur-directed I Walked With a Zombie (1943); the Robert Wise-directed Bela Lugosi-Boris Karloff starrer The Body Snatcher (1945); the Mark Robson-directed Karloff starrer Bedlam (1946); and the John Farrow-directed Lucille Ball-John Carradine starrer Five Came Back (1939)."
4 comments:
As Karl Swenson puts it so eloquently in The Birds (1963): "It's the end of the world!"
Nothing good can come from this...
While its admirable to try bring classic horror films into the new century, translating the original work for today's times and today's fears would need to be done with a fine hand.
Looking at the "translations" these studios have done already shows that they may not have the ability to cross time periods and ideologies in an entertaining way. zzzzzzzz :)
There are places Man was not meant to go, and things that Man was not meant to do. Remaking old classics is one of them.
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