The Incredible Shrinking Man remake

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This WILL make you rip your hair out...


April 17, 2008


Brett Ratner is in negotiations to direct Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment's remake of "The Incredible Shrinking Man."

Brian Grazer is producing the project, which has Eddie Murphy attached to star.

An updated version of the best-selling novel and 1957 sci-fi classic starring Grant Williams, "Man" is taking the comedic approach to the fantastical material, telling the story of a famous Las Vegas magician who is put under a spell that causes him to shrink. He must find a way to reverse the spell before he gets so small that he "disappears."

Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant penned the most recent draft of the screenplay for the project, which had previously seen Pete Segal and Keenan Ivory Wayans in the director's chair.

Universal president of production Donna Langley and executive vp production Peter Cramer will oversee for the studio.

Ratner, one of the town's most commercial directors, is currently helming one of the short subjects in the "New York, I Love You" anthology film.

At Universal, he is also attached to direct "Playboy," Grazer's project about Hugh Hefner.

Ratner, who last directed "Rush Hour 3," is repped by CAA and attorney Jake Bloom.

[ChronoGrl]

V, you're killing me here.

I... have nothing to say about this...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/Chronogrl/ist2_2234414_sick.jpg

And people wonder why I'm losing my faith in humanity.

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V, you're killing me here.

I... have nothing to say about this...

Heck, I wish I could just STOP posting anything, after reading that bit of news above.

It makes me sick as heck...:mad:

[urgeok2]

i'm all for it.

the origional has it's charms .. but if properly dont - i could see this one benefitting from some updated effects.

as long as they dont get some kid to play the roll.


oh shit - i just saw eddie murphy's name.

forget i said anything.

[Despare]

I don't have a problem with remakes, there's always a chance they'll be great and if they suck then I don't have to watch them. I'm still confused about Madonna wanting to remake Casablanca though... I just don't see how it could be profitable. Are there really that many stupid people in the world?








Of course there are, how silly of me. This one looks like an interesting remake simply because they're telling a very different story in my opinion. Almost like the two would be companion films rather than a movie and a remake.

[neverending]

It's just sacriledge.....

Eddie Murphy is already playing a tiny person in an upcoming movie- he has to make TWO?

[phantomstranger]

What a remarkably bad idea this is.

[Doc Faustus]

Vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit bleed cry vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit vomit no dear god why vomit vomit dear god why vomit vomit cry vomit dear god why

[ChronoGrl]

Of course there are, how silly of me. This one looks like an interesting remake simply because they're telling a very different story in my opinion. Almost like the two would be companion films rather than a movie and a remake.

This is what I don't understand: If they want to make another zany comedy starring Eddie Murphy, so be it.

But this story seems different enough to be just another shitty screwball comedy; why call it a remake at all? Call it what it is:

Eddie Murphy gets into one of his ol' predicaments again!

But doNOT tarnish the name of this veritable scifi/horror classic.

Die in a fire.

[Despare]

This is what I don't understand: If they want to make another zany comedy starring Eddie Murphy, so be it.

But this story seems different enough to be just another shitty screwball comedy; why call it a remake at all? Call it what it is:

Eddie Murphy gets into one of his ol' predicaments again!

But doNOT tarnish the name of this veritable scifi/horror classic.

Die in a fire.

How can anything hurt the original which is always there to watch? If anything it will bring us a killer dvd release of the original and open some eyes to a movie that people may not have heard of.

Die in your sleep after being tormented and cut into pieces by your stuffed animals.

[Doc Faustus]

True, but Eddie Murphy's disregard for film history is reprehensible. This is a hate crime.

[ChronoGrl]

Die in your sleep after being tormented and cut into pieces by your stuffed animals.

Was... that... for... me...?:(

Die in a fire.

That was for the producers, Eddie Murphy, and, hell, Hollywood. But not for you. Yet.

[Despare]

Was... that... for... me...?:(



That was for the producers, Eddie Murphy, and, hell, Hollywood. But not for you. Yet.

Ah well, misunderstand, I can put away the spells and incantations I was going to use to bring your stuffed animals to life.



















Maybe....

[ChronoGrl]

Ah well, misunderstand, I can put away the spells and incantations I was going to use to bring your stuffed animals to life.



















Maybe....

ANYTHING BUT THE CREEPY CYMBAL MONKEY! :eek:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/Chronogrl/1111.jpg

They're always the first to turn...

[Dark_soul]

It have a good idea :cool:

[Anthropophagus]

Eddie Murphy.....................sheesh.:mad:

Yet another lame as hell,cheap on gags pile of crap.
Why oh why oh why do they think they need to have a comic (and i use that term loosely) to star in such a classic.
hell,what has Murphy ever done thats worth a mention,and please dont ever mention Beverley Hills cop anyone?

The producers and Murphy should go and die.I agree on that one.:mad:

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MGM To Remake 'The Incredible Shrinking Man,' Sci-Fi Legend Richard Matheson To Co-Write

MGM has just announced they've tapped the father/son Matheson duo to pen a modern-day update of Richard Sr.'s classic novel “The Shrinking Man,” which was written under atomic-bomb paranoia and followed a man slowly shrunk by radiation. Described as an “existential action movie,” the elder Matheson also noted the base reasons for remaking the film.

“My original story was a metaphor for how man's place in the world was diminishing,” he said. “That still holds today, where all these advancements that are going to save us will be our undoing.” One of those advancements will be nanotechnology, an aspect of, but perhaps not the central reason for, the latest transformation.

Naturally, this isn't the first time Matheson's story has been told. Universal snapped up the rights decades ago and put out a film version in 1957, starring Grant Williams and featuring great work by “Creature from the Black Lagoon” director Jack Arnold. However, after a recent remake with Eddie Murphy crumbled, MGM was there this past summer to take the rights once released.

“Honey, I Shrunk The Kids” and “The Incredible Shrinking Woman” have used Matheson's concept fully for its comedic potential, but with the author himself plotting out this latest version, and with his son also on board, the chances of its allegorical and narrative strength are definitely increased tenfold.

Details -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/feb/14/the-shrinking-man-reboot

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/mgm-rebooting-shrinking-man-richard-421168