OMFG!! no please no

[ShankS]

*holds head in desperation*

why is JC doing this???

The Fog

No official plot yet, but the original told of a mysterious thick fog that sweeps in a small North Carolina, which contained murderous ghost pirates.

LATEST NEWS

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DETAILS

- Production begins in February of '05.
- Produced by original writer Debra Hill, original writer/director John Carpenter, and David Foster.
- The script will be written by Cooper Layne (The Core, The Emperor's Club).
- A remake of the original 1980 John Carpenter film.

[zwoti]

Originally posted by ShankS
*holds head in desperation*

why is JC doing this???

[urgeok]

actually - i dont have a problem with this one ...
I think its worth a shot.

At least it's carpenter ... he might have one more good movie in him ..


or he could merely need to flush his bowels ..

I never thought his ex wife Barbeau was any good in the 1st one ... I'll miss Hal Holbrook though.

[nine9]

The Fog is one of my favorite Carpenter films......as zwoti says definitely for the money, or maybe complete creative burnout.

[urgeok]

I'm afraid to pass judgement until i see it ..

He remade Assault on Precinct 13 as Ghosts of Mars which was pathetic ... he had no budget.

Maybe there is enough interest in this one to provide him with a bigger budget and maybe .. just maybe .. he'll get a great cast.
(hopefully not a bunch of kids)

and the fog is also one of my favorites.
Carpenter is the only director who's works (or related - the halloween series) I've been able to get complete on laserdiscs - until they stopped making them.

I paid $80 US for the laserdisc of The Fog on Ebay..

and then the bloody thing came out on DVD a year or so later.

[massacre man]

John Carpenter said he already made his version of fog and now it is someone elses turn to make the fog (same with the blob and the thing)

[urgeok]

ooops sorry - misread .. he's just producing.

its a crapshoot ... at least the old one doesnt become undone when the new one is made ..


the one that has me pissed more than anything is a remake of Alfie with Jude Law ..

I know its not horror but for some reason that film was so perfect that remaking it is a slap in the face to the origional ...

I should probably feel that wat about the fog, etc but i dont ..

Horror film makers who love horror films do these remakes because they are honoring the origional..

But unfortunately a lot of hacks get these jobs so they can get no-risk experience and move onto other things ..

Those are the remakes that fail .. lack of passion.

[ShankS]

It's gona be ruined. No matter how good the critics say it is, no matter how good the reviewers say it is... there is only one Fog and thats JCs Original.

:mad:

[urgeok]

its funny .. but i remember when it came out .. people werent that crazy about it ..
Most saw it as a major dissapointment after Halloween.

its one of those movies that people discovered after the fact.

[zwoti]

often the case with JC