Remake Factory Bails on 'Near Dark' and 'Rosemary's Baby'
Filed under: Horror
Y'know, for every horror flick that gets a remake, there must be like ... dozens that don't! And since Platinum Dunes is a production company that enjoys dabbling in the horror remake department, it's good to know they won't just CHASE popular titles for the hell of it. According to Filmstalker (and a variety of other sources), the company behind the remakes of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror, The Hitcher, Friday the 13th, and (eventually) The Birds and A Nightmare on Elm Street is dropping its formative plans on remakes of Roman Polanski's classic chiller Rosemary's Baby and Kathryn Bigelow's cult fave Near Dark.The reasons are both basic and uninteresting ("We couldn't come up with something where it felt like it was relevant and we could add something to it other than what it was so we're now not going to be doing that film."), but at least we can take those two off our "ugh, why?" list.
But fear not, remake admirers: Next year looks to be a big-time buffet of My Bloody Valentine, Friday the 13th, The Wolfman, The Crazies, Piranha 3-D, and the sequel to the remake of Halloween. So these two won't be missed, really.
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12-23-2008 @ 1:22PM
Joe said...
I may be the only one but I would liked to have seen a remake of Rosemary's Baby. If it would have stayed very true to the original but with a more up to date look and feel. I would have been all for that movie. But I guess that will never happen. So I guess its all for the better.
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12-23-2008 @ 2:15PM
Rich said...
Good riddance...
Those are 2 movies that don't need a remake/reimage/rewhatever.
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12-23-2008 @ 2:17PM
Rustin said...
Thank goodness they dropped the remake for Rosemary. And - thank goodness, no one has had the notion to make Ira Levin's sequel to it - "Son of Rosemary".
I am all for remakes and re-imaginings if they can improve upon or modernize the original. But there are things that cannot and should be left alone. Such as Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon's performances. They were those characters and any revamping of them by a Naomi Watts or Scarlett Johannsen would take away the feel from Mia's naivety and innocence not to mention Ruth's cunning, "old lady is cute but really a devil worshipper" portrayal.
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12-23-2008 @ 4:29PM
Filmmaker said...
a remake of the Birds and A Nightmare on Elm Street is just a bad idea leave them alone the remakes are just going to suck and nightmare on elm street remake is not going to have Robert Englund playing freddy and nany one they cast just wont work he's the only one that can do the role so only make it if he says yes
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12-24-2008 @ 8:23AM
spamstratagem said...
This is great news. Now, if whoever is behind remaking Suspiria follows this example, I'll be happy.
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