The Latest Remakes thread

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Michael Rennie is ill once again....

[jenna26]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

Latest movie to join the remake ranks is My Bloody Valentine. Patrick Lussier is attached to direct the Lionsgate production.

Wow, this is never going to end....
Oh well, its not a great film, but I actually do like the original. :)

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Days after signing an interim agreement with the Writers Guild, RKO has launched Roseblood Movie Co., a subsidiary that RKO topper Ted Hartley said will remake eight classic horror films churned out by Val Lewton when he headed RKO's low-budget horror unit in the 1940s!

Variety reports that the slate includes

"Lady Scarface," which will be written by Tom Puryear;
"While the City Sleeps," which will be scripted by Shin Shimosawa and Jim Morris;
"The Monkey's Paw," which will be scripted by Todd Farmer; and
"The Seventh Victim," which doesn't yet have a writer.

The other films on the initial slate are "Bedlam," "Body Snatcher," "Five Came Back" and "I Walked With a Zombie," titles identified last year (Daily Variety, June 15) when RKO made a co-financing deal on the quartet with Twisted Pictures, the makers of the "Saw" films.

"The launching of the Roseblood Movie Co. was the motivating force behind our making an agreement with the Writers Guild," Hartley said. "We've got other projects at RKO, but we needed to get going on this. The most successful ROI in the movie business comes from scary movies that get wide release and cost under $10 million. We've studied it extensively for our stockholders and investors and we saw the opportunity to take the rich Val Lewton library of scary thrillers and create a unique company out of it."

The moniker is a play on words from the reveal of "Citizen Kane," the biggest title in the RKO library for which Hartley owns remake rights. He said RKO will put some money in the films and is arranging other financing. Hartley said the program of films will be made over 24 months, and the first one will begin production in the fall. No distribution has yet been set.

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February 7, 2008

After deciding to rewrite the screenplay, Dimension Films has announced a new date for their remake of Hellraiser, which will be helmed by those incredible French directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury.

Pinhead will once again grace the big screens on January 9, 2009 - mark your calendars.

Plot concerns the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, he is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.

[friday13thfan]

Hellraiser Movie. Sounds good.

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Alex Aja's remake of Piranha will be presented in 3-D!

In addition, Dimension Films will release the film theatrically on July 24, 2009.

They’re back! Every year the population of sleepy Lake Havasu explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 for a single, wild weekend - the 4th of July, a riot of sun, drunken fun and sex-crazed mayhem. But this year, there's something more to worry about than hangovers and complaints from local old timers. Havasu sits in the crater formed by a prehistoric volcanic eruption, and when earth tremors tear open a crack in the lake floor, all hell breaks through. Piranhas - a million ravenous, razor-toothed monsters, unchanged since the dawn of time.

[Disastermind]

I cannot get over at to how BAD the new DAY OF THE DEAD looks...and could they have found worse people to do the movie? Writer of Final Destination and the Director of H20? Might as well have got the director of HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2...

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Originally slated for release on October 31 by MGM, its been learnt that the studio has scrapped the "remake" idea and has sold the rights to the Motel Hell franchise to Twisted Pictures, the dudes behind Saw, Dead Silence and the upcoming Repo! The Genetic Opera.

It isn't clear what they'll be doing with the film, but its told they're going to turn it into a brand new original franchise.

In the original Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make Farmer Vincents fritters.

The movie is gory, but is also a parody of slasher movies like Last House on the Left.

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- Ray Wright is set to write and Breck Eisner (Sahara) will be replacing Brad Anderson in the director's chair for Rogue Pictures' remake of George A. Romero's The Crazies, according to Variety.

Production is set to begin as soon as a SAG deal is made.

"The Crazies" will update the storyline of the original, in which inhabitants of a small Pennsylvania town are beset by death and insanity after a plane crash lets loose a secret biological weapon into the water supply.

The original was released in 1972.

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Feb 21, 2008


Hugo Weaving will join Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt in Universal's upcoming redo of "The Wolfman." Weaving, best known for his appearances in "The Matrix" movies, will play Det. Aberline.

Del Toro will play the hirsute title character and Anthony Hopkins his dad. Blunt has been cast as the female lead in the project, which Joe Johnston will direct.

Lensing begins next month in London.

David Self did a rewrite of Andrew Kevin Walker's script. Pic's produced by Scott Stuber, Mary Parent, Sean Daniel and Rick Yorn.

Remake is slated for a Feb. 13, 2009 release.