Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Lodger' Remake Gets Director
Filed under: Thrillers, Deals, Remakes and Sequels
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Give me a break. I usually don't raise a fuss about the endless wave of remakes, reimaginings, re-conceptualizings, prequels of sequels and assorted other bald-faced money-grabbing ventures Hollywood engages in, but now we're being told that Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 film The Lodger is on the track for a remake! So it will be black and white? And silent? And will follow the same storyline? Well, no, obviously, but it has Alfred Hitchcock's name attached to it, so that's got to be worth at least something. The film will be directed by first-timer David Ondaatje and will be "re-imagined" as an "urban thriller set in Los Angeles" -- where Jack the Ripper committed some of his most heinous murders.
Ondaatje's film will be partially based on the novel from Marie Belloc Lowndes that served as the inspiration for Hitchcock's film, but it's hard to see how much inspiration it could possibly provide. Lowndes' book is about the Jack the Ripper killing spree, while this new film will have, according to HR, "two converging plot lines set in present-day Los Angeles. The first involves an uneasy relationship between a psychologically unstable landlady and her enigmatic lodger, and the second is about a troubled detective engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with an unknown killer." Translation: having Alfred Hitchcock's name attached to our complex detective thriller would really raise the coinage, so can we make that happen? We can? Awesome.
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6-27-2007 @ 7:02PM
Anthony K. said...
If I was Rowdy Harrington ("Road House") I'd go get a lawyer immediately. Why?
Check out a movie called Jack's Back http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095389/, written and directed by Herrington, or just read IMDB's logline for the film here: A serial killer in Los Angeles celebrates Jack the Ripper's 100th birthday by committing similar murders. Okay, so the producers of this remake can argue it has nothing to do with The Ripper's Birthday and they have Hitchcock's name, right? Admittedly I enjoy Hitchcock films and like most film fans I am bored with remakes.
As I recall this is the film with the great lights coming up on the killer's face shot. I can already see it in the film's trailer.
Anyway, if I have to ask I guess I would ask, what Hitchcock remake, if any, would you like to see?
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