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Goyer Spills Some 'Scanners' Details
Filed under: Horror », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », The Weinstein Co. », Remakes and Sequels »
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Now that John Carpenter's back catalog has been well and truly ransacked by the Remake Brigade, producers looking for another dose of horror-centric brand recognition must look to other auteurs ... and it looks like David Cronenberg is the next victim in line. A few months back we reported that screenwriter David S. Goyer (Dark City, Blade, Batman Begins) and director Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw 2, Saw 3, Saw 4) would be tackling one of Cronenberg's old hits: The 1981 sci-fi thriller Scanners. Yes, the one with the exploding heads.While he was out doing the junket thing for his latest film, a remake of a nifty
The popular screenwriter then called Cronenberg a genius and went back to talking about The Invisible, but not before mentioning that this new version will have a much bigger budget to work with than did the original Scanners. (The irony is that Cronenberg didn't actually need a whole lot of money to make a flick so memorable that it spawned a remake more than two decades later.) Sources indicate that the new-fangled Scanners will most likely start production some time early next year. Goyer's been keeping pretty busy, too: He's also working on a Green Arrow project called Super Max and an adaptation of James Owen's Here, There Be Dragons.
Cronenberg, Clooney and the Real-Live Shopgirl: Sunday NYT in 60 Seconds
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"Is there any director more entitled than [David] Cronenberg to put his feet up
and make a few bucks directing a nice popcorn movie for a change?" Jonathan Dee on Cronenberg's best.- Allyson Hollingsworth's art is featured prominently in Steve Martin's Shopgirl; her life is featured prominently in the novella on which it was based. In this profile, she frustratingly refuses to dish on her real-life relationship with Martin, but she talks about pretty much everything else.
- "[George] Clooney seems to be the one Big Star, give or take a Bono, who has managed to have his cake and credibility, too." David Carr talks to the triple-threat on the eve of Good Night, and Good Luck's premiere at the New York Film Festival.
- "This is the best thing I ever did," says Joaquin Phoenix, explaining his decidedly non-anonymous participation in AA. "It takes a lot of courage to look at yourself in a rigorously honest way. And I like rigor.''
- Joe Queenan calls Marlon Brando's Fan-Tan a "thrilling example" of the curious genre of celebrity art side-projects: "Ultimately, the question of whether these oddities cut the mustard becomes irrelevant. The only thing worth asking is: "Gee willikers! What occasioned this?"
A (Sort of) Guide to A History of Violence
Filed under: New Releases », Newsstand »
In Sunday's New York Daily News, film critic Graham Fuller appears to be a little worried about the release of David Cronenberg's A History of Violence. While the film is said to be fairly straightforward by Cronenberg standards (we have it on good authority that there will be no talking bugs, no car-crash-sex, no twin gynecologists), Fuller fears that these reports might turn out to be a bit misleading. So, in an effort to sort of prepare us for the film, he offers a list of five things about it that are vaguely worrying/deeply odd/totally confusing. I don't know about you people, but reading that female lead Maria Bello spends the film "channel[ing] Kirsten Dunst in Bring It On" has made me want to see A History of Violence for the first time. I only hope there's jazz hands.
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