Hitcher to the Trailer
Filed under: Horror, Thrillers, Universal, Remakes and Sequels
Just because everyone here at Cinematical loves The Hitcher, that hasn't stopped us from covering the hell out of the upcoming remake -- which is now opening on January 19th, just so you know. My take on remakes is simply this: Some of 'em work, most of 'em don't, and none of 'em can take the shine off a really classic flick. And while Joe & Jane Movierenter might know nothing of The Hitcher, that hasn't prevented the flick from becoming a cult classic genre flick of the highest caliber. Hell, even my mother loves The Hitcher, and she usually watches movies starring Sally Struthers and/or Lindsay Wagner.So yeah, the remake is afoot. And if you can get this new-fangled doo-dad over at MSN to give up its wares, you can finally settle in and watch the all-new trailer for Platinum Dunes' new and improved The Hitcher. I think I've been pretty even-tempered toward this project so far, but I gotta say the trailer does next to nothing for me. Aside from the prospect of seeing Sean Bean play a psycho (which he's never done before), I feel rather ambivalent about the new Hitcher. Disinterested, one might say, but I've been wrong before.
Just so you know the score, the original was written by Eric Red and directed by Robert Harmon. The remake comes from screenwriter Jake Wade Wall and director Dave Meyers. The shrieking screamers, previously played by C. Thomas Howell and Jennifer Jason Leigh, will now be portrayed by Zachary Knighton and Sophia Bush. And I'm sorry but, as cool as Sean Bean is (and he really is a very reliable and watchable character actor), nothing will be able to match what Rutger Hauer did with the role back in 1986. (According to completely fabricated rumors that I just now made up, Mr. Hauer actually killed 17 real motorists while preparing for the role of The Hitcher.)
[Thanks to BD for the tip!]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-21-2006 @ 8:33PM
jmchez said...
So wait, instead of the guy picking up the hitcher, now it's a couple? It also seems that it's the girl that survives and talks to the police. Does that mean the boy is the one who get dismembered by being pulled in half by the two trailer trucks? Does you mother like that?
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11-21-2006 @ 11:19PM
Jane said...
Sean Bean never played a psycho? Scott, Scott, you need to rent Essex Boys and see one of the scariest psychotic killers in movies. Cold-blooded and murderous. I have no doubt Bean can pull this one off.
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11-22-2006 @ 7:13AM
Martha Fischer said...
Pst, Jane! Check the links -- I'm pretty sure the point is that Bean has played a psycho many, many times.
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