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08-16-2007 09:15 AM |
"Isle of the Dead" remake happening
RKO pictures is banking on newcomers Brian Horiuchi and Matt Lazarus to pen an update of the 1945 film Isle Of The Dead, which starred Boris Karloff.
In the 1945 film directed by Val Lewton, Karloff played a Greek military commander on an island where a plague breaks out. He orders the isle quarantined and as residents fall ill and die, some begin to suspect that a vampire-demon might be the cause of the deaths.
RKO plans to set the remake against the backdrop of a viral outbreak in Afghanistan.
"Val Lewton made his name by taking the horror genre to a new place," said RKO chairman and CEO Ted Hartley, who will produce. "Brian and Matt have the same kind of genre-bending sensibilities that will give this classic tale the perfect blend of contemporary themes and timeless scares."
This isn't the first remake of a Lewton film; his classic 1942 film Cat People (which was directed by Jacques Tourneur) was remade in 1982 by Paul Schrader.
No director is set as of yet, but let's hope that if the film is any good, people remember it as HIS film instead of the producer's.
Tarsem returning with video-game adaptation
Tarsem Singh, who directed the visually fantastic but otherwise useless 2000 thriller The Cell, has finally lined up his next project. He will helm The Unforgettable, a film supposedly based on the game Condemned: Criminal Origins, which was a pretty damn scary game.
Originally titled "Species X," the film centers on a cop who in the course of a murder investigation realizes that he is not human and uncovers a war between good and evil aliens.
Well...that's all well and good but the game had nothing to do with aliens, so it's good to know they're mucking this one up right from the start.:rolleyes:
But from a visual standpoint it could be the best video game movie adaptation yet. Wait and see...
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