Remakes OTD: Fright Night, Near Dark
SHOCKTILLYOUDROP: Screen Gems De-Fangs Fright Night?Source: Ryan Rotten - September 18, 2007
"You have to have FAITH for that to work...Misssster Vinccccent, remember?" spits vampire Jerry Dandrige in the face of a holy cross held by Peter Vincent in Tom Holland's Fright Night. And, for this rabid "Night" fan, faith is something I've held onto during these dark days of Hollywood remakes. Faith that the Fright Night property would go untouched. Un-"remade."
Screw that.
ShockTillYouDrop.com discovered Sony's Screen Gems is sifting through Hollywood's supply of writers for a Fright Night redo. But this one, from the sounds of it, is "in name only." A sundry of sources tell us executive producer Scott Strauss who may or may not still be attached and who recently shepherded Breach, starring Ryan Phillippe, and executive produced Robert Englund's Killer Pad, wants to take Fright Night in a different direction. One involving an amusement park in some way.
Our immediate thought is "They're remaking Tobe Hooper's Funhouse and calling it Fright Night." We haven't heard a peep yet regarding how Gems is coming along with the pitch process, but we'll keep you in the loop!
BLOODY-DISGUSTING: Near Dark Remake NewsMonday, September 17, 2007
Bloody-Disgusting has been scooped that Samuel Bayer will in fact helm Rogue Pictures' Near Dark remake for Platinum Dunes. Bayer directed music videos for The Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica, Green Day, Garbage and many others. Matt Venne wrote the screenplay that follows a young man who reluctantly joins a travelling "family" of evil vampires, when the girl he'd tried to seduce is part of that group. This will be the next film from Platinum Dunes, which is headed by Brad Fuller and Andrew Form.
Labels: '80s film, fright night, horror, near dark, remake
posted by Jeff Pidgeon at
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Is it just me or are filmmakers remaking more and more recent films? I wonder if producer's will ever remake a film that has yet to be greenlit. With that said, I'm all for more spooky monster flicks.
Generally, there's a twenty year gap (or so) between versions of a story.
The volume of sequels in production definitely seems to have increased, and now The Incredible Hulk has arguably paved the way for shorter remake gaps via 'reboots' - new attempts on properties that didn't deliver the first time around.
Beacuse of this new wrinkle, I think that the twenty-year gap is shrinking, especially with English-language remakes of foriegn films. I think the assumption there is that there wasn't much chance that your average moviegoer saw it in the first place, regardless of how recent it was.
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