When will the remakes stop?

dissention · #1 06-27-2005, 08:57 PM

I can't believe how many movie remakes are coming out these days and was absolutely shocked to read today that they're now remaking Roeg's Don't Look Now, an already perfect movie. Anyone else sick of this remake crap?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr..._id=1000968640

June 27, 2005
Gordon spies 'Look' remake
By Gregg Kilday

Mark Gordon is planning to produce a remake of "Don't Look Now" for Paramount Pictures.

The 1973 film, directed by Nicolas Roeg and based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier, created a sensation in the early '70s thanks to a highly erotic love scene featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie.

Andrea Berloff will write the screenplay for the adaptation, which centers on a couple, John and Laura Baxter, who go to Venice, Italy, to recuperate after the sudden death of their daughter only to encounter strange visions that suggest their daughter's presence.

Gordon is producing through his Mark Gordon Co., with senior vp Josh McLaughlin overseeing for the Mark Gordon Co.

Paramount executives Wendy Japhet and Edward Goemans are overseeing for the studio.

McLaughlin said he and Gordon took the arrival of the new production team at Paramount as an opportunity to review titles in the Paramount library with an eye toward remakes. "I've always been a big fan of 'Don't Look Now,' and we thought it was a movie that could be updated. We owe a lot to Andrea Berloff, who (took the idea) and hit the ground running with the movie's ideas of death and life and looking for something just beyond life."

The original film, Gordon added, "was very much of its time, with a lot of atmospherics that wouldn't necessarily work today. But it has a great idea and a wonderful backdrop and setting. We hope to take the feeling of the story, continue to set it in Venice and make it contemporary."

Gordon recently completed filming "Casanova," starring Heath Ledger and directed by Lasse Hallstrom, for Walt Disney Studios in Venice, and despite the logistical challenges the waterlogged city presents, he hopes to return there to film "Don't Look Now." "The setting is part of what made the original movie," Gordon said.

The Mark Gordon Co. also produces the ABC series "Grey's Anatomy" with Touchstone Television. Gordon also is developing two other projects at Paramount, a new version of "The Ten Commandments" and "Killing Pablo," with Joe Carnahan as director.

Berloff is repped by management firm Benderspink and law firm Colden, McKuin and Frankel.

ryan8472 · #2 06-27-2005, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Gordon also is developing two other projects at Paramount, a new version of "The Ten Commandments".

amber · #3 06-27-2005, 09:01 PM

Maybe when people stop growing up solely on media, so that they may be able to come up with ideas they didn't watch/listen to before? Maybe when our school system/gov't pulls it's head out of it's a**? I dunno.....

Nixxxed · #4 06-27-2005, 10:14 PM

Are we only bitching about movie remakes? Cuz I had my ears melt off the sides of my head last night after an unfortunate 10-second assault by Jessica Simpson's butchering of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin".

The jury's still out on the King Kong trailer they premiered tonight on like, 10 stations. (And since when do trailers deserve a premiere anyway?

) It looked deliciously creepy, but a little TOO stylistic and pretentious, if that makes any sense.

dissention · #5 06-27-2005, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Nixxxed

Are we only bitching about movie remakes? Cuz I had my ears melt off the sides of my head last night after an unfortunate 10-second assault by Jessica Simpson's butchering of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin".

Eek, you poor thing. But that's nothing. I had to endure the trailer for The Dukes of Hazzard when I went to see Batman.

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Originally Posted by Nixxxed

The jury's still out on the King Kong trailer they premiered tonight on like, 10 stations. (And since when do trailers deserve a premiere anyway?

) It looked deliciously creepy, but a little TOO stylistic and pretentious, if that makes any sense.

On the one hand, I'm interested to see what Jackson did with it, but I can't stand Adrien Brody. But, then again, I love Naomi Watts, too. Chances are...I'll see it.

Nixxxed · #6 06-27-2005, 10:21 PM

I have to say, tho, in all honesty, that I can't WAIT for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

"You're really weird!!!"

strandinthewind · #7 06-27-2005, 10:24 PM

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I have to say, tho, in all honesty, that I can't WAIT for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

"You're really weird!!!"

me toooo - and I am going to Halloween as WW - I am having out fit made as we speak, now I have to drop 20 pounds to get in it

dissention · #8 06-27-2005, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Nixxxed

I have to say, tho, in all honesty, that I can't WAIT for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

"You're really weird!!!"

I saw that trailer when I saw Batman, too, but I'm not as enthused to see it as I once was. I love the choices for Charlie and Grandpa Joe, but Depp looks like Jackie O and it looks like it's going to be filled with lots of stupid humor. I don't like the mod look, either, or the fact that one guy plays all the Oompah Loompahs.

JazmenFlowers · #9 06-27-2005, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Nixxxed

Are we only bitching about movie remakes? Cuz I had my ears melt off the sides of my head last night after an unfortunate 10-second assault by Jessica Simpson's butchering of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin".

The jury's still out on the King Kong trailer they premiered tonight on like, 10 stations. (And since when do trailers deserve a premiere anyway?

) It looked deliciously creepy, but a little TOO stylistic and pretentious, if that makes any sense.

now, I love jess, but good lord - she acts and sings like she either has epilepsy or terrets (is that how you spell it?) I can really only tolerate her albums.

amber · #10 06-27-2005, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

Maybe when people stop growing up solely on media, so that they may be able to come up with ideas they didn't watch/listen to before? Maybe when our school system/gov't pulls it's head out of it's a**? I dunno.....

Sesly. Read some books, people, turn the TV off, don't see every damn movie that comes out, quit being obsessed with celebs....

Jk, it's hard, ain't it?

only derivitive thought is possible, now...apparently....

darklinensuit · #11 06-27-2005, 11:28 PM

Be honest, you're just waiting for them to remake Harold And Maude with Bea Arthur and Haley Joel Osment.

- Jake

Miss Vicky · #12 06-27-2005, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Nixxxed

I have to say, tho, in all honesty, that I can't WAIT for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

"You're really weird!!!"

Same here.

Damn Depp looks CREEPY in it. Gawd I love him.

Can't wait for "Corpse Bride" as well.

tynan88 · #13 06-28-2005, 07:50 AM

Jeez I didn't realise it was directed by Tim Burton, but I probably didn't even need to have seen the name to have figured it out.

SuzeQuze · #14 06-28-2005, 09:09 AM

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me toooo - and I am going to Halloween as WW - I am having out fit made as we speak, now I have to drop 20 pounds to get in it

Okay, how cute are you having your costume made 4 months in advance?

I also LOVE Halloween!

SuzeQuze · #15 06-28-2005, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

now, I love jess, but good lord - she acts and sings like she either has epilepsy or terrets (is that how you spell it?) I can really only tolerate her albums.

Way too much affect, she drives me nuts with that. Just sing without all the "embellishment"