Newsbites: The comics and remakes edition!
1. Zack and Deborah Snyder say the theatrical cut of Watchmen is getting ever-so-slightly shorter, but the director's cut will run to 3 hours and 10 minutes. -- SciFi.com
2. Stephen Sommers, director of Van Helsing (2004) and the first two Mummy movies (1999-2001), plans to pattern his Tarzan movie after the Pirates of the Caribbean flicks (2003-2007); he is reportedly "ditching the boy-raised-by-apes origin story for a 1930's-set romp with a hefty helping of romance . . . with buffed-and-tanned actors flying through the jungle and sprinting up trees, parkour-style." -- Entertainment Weekly
3. Producer Gale Anne Hurd says the movie version of Magdalena will be "kind of like The DaVinci Code meets Wanted". -- ShockTillYouDrop.com
4. Jay Baruchel is in talks to play the title character in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, opposite Nicolas Cage, who will be playing the Sorcerer himself. The film -- which "takes place in contemporary New York, where a wizard searches for an apprentice" -- is a live-action Disney production, but it is unclear whether it will have anything other than the title in common with the famous Mickey Mouse cartoon that first appeared in Fantasia (1940). -- Variety
5. A remake of John Carpenter's They Live (1988) is in the works. So is a remake of Carpenter's The Thing (1982), although, in fairness, that particular film was itself a remake of Howard Hawks's The Thing from Another World (1951). -- Hollywood Reporter
6. A remake of Robert Zemeckis's Romancing the Stone (1984) is in the works. -- Hollywood Reporter
7. A remake of the Dudley Moore comedy Arthur (1981) is in the works, starring Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Russell Brand. -- Hollywood Reporter
2. Stephen Sommers, director of Van Helsing (2004) and the first two Mummy movies (1999-2001), plans to pattern his Tarzan movie after the Pirates of the Caribbean flicks (2003-2007); he is reportedly "ditching the boy-raised-by-apes origin story for a 1930's-set romp with a hefty helping of romance . . . with buffed-and-tanned actors flying through the jungle and sprinting up trees, parkour-style." -- Entertainment Weekly
3. Producer Gale Anne Hurd says the movie version of Magdalena will be "kind of like The DaVinci Code meets Wanted". -- ShockTillYouDrop.com
4. Jay Baruchel is in talks to play the title character in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, opposite Nicolas Cage, who will be playing the Sorcerer himself. The film -- which "takes place in contemporary New York, where a wizard searches for an apprentice" -- is a live-action Disney production, but it is unclear whether it will have anything other than the title in common with the famous Mickey Mouse cartoon that first appeared in Fantasia (1940). -- Variety
5. A remake of John Carpenter's They Live (1988) is in the works. So is a remake of Carpenter's The Thing (1982), although, in fairness, that particular film was itself a remake of Howard Hawks's The Thing from Another World (1951). -- Hollywood Reporter
6. A remake of Robert Zemeckis's Romancing the Stone (1984) is in the works. -- Hollywood Reporter
7. A remake of the Dudley Moore comedy Arthur (1981) is in the works, starring Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Russell Brand. -- Hollywood Reporter
posted by Peter T Chattaway at 12:18 AM
1 Comments:
Why remake remancing the stone? And a Tarzan without the tarzan story? Um...why do they bother redo previous films if they aren't doing so...just start new...if you're not really being loyal to the original why even bother to call it that?
I just don't get it. Why not just say "inspired by ****" and get on with things?
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