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[Eric P]

Universal to remake 'Videodrome'
David Cronenberg-directed thriller gets redo
By MICHAEL FLEMING

Universal Pictures will remake the 1983 David Cronenberg-directed thriller "Videodrome," with Ehren Kruger set to write the script and produce with partner Daniel Bobker.

The producers tracked down the rights to Canadian distribution vet Rene Malo, who will be exec producer. Universal distributed the original and had first refusal on a remake, and the studio snapped up the opportunity.

The original "Videodrome" starred James Woods as the head of Civic TV Channel 83, who makes his station relevant by programming "Videodrome," a series that depicts torture and murder that transfixes viewers.

The new picture will modernize the concept, infuse it with the possibilities of nano-technology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller.

Cronenberg has no role in the film as yet. He is prepping for MGM "The Matarese Circle" as a starring vehicle for Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington. Since Cruise appears likely to next star in the DreamWorks drama "Motorcade" and Washington has committed to the Fox drama "Unstoppable," "Circle" doesn't appear likely to get under way until later this year or 2010.

Bobker/Kruger Films recently set the thriller "Dream House" at Morgan Creek and is producing, with Matthew Stillman, "The Keep" for Rogue. Kruger co-wrote the June 24 Paramount/DreamWorks release "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002863.html?categoryid=1237&cs=1


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    * In Production
    * 2000s
    * 1990s

   1. God Is a Bullet (2011) (in production) (screenplay)
   2. "The Talisman" (2010) TV mini-series (pre-production) (screenplay)
   3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) (post-production) (written by)
      ... aka Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version)

   4. Blood and Chocolate (2007) (screenplay)
      ... aka Blood & Chocolate - Die Nacht der Werwölfe (Germany: DVD title)
   5. The Brothers Grimm (2005) (written by)
   6. The Skeleton Key (2005) (written by)
   7. The Ring Two (2005) (written by)
      ... aka Samara (Hong Kong: English title) (Singapore: English title)
      ... aka The Ring 2 (International: English title: alternative spelling) (UK)
      ... aka Samara: Ring 2 (Philippines: English title: informal title)
   8. Rings (2005) (V) (written by)
   9. The Ring (2002) (screenplay)
  10. Impostor (2001) (screenplay)
  11. Reindeer Games (2000) (written by)
      ... aka Deception (UK) (USA: working title)
  12. Scream 3 (2000) (written by)

  13. New World Disorder (1999) (written by)
  14. Arlington Road (1999) (written by)
  15. Killers in the House (1998) (TV) (written by)

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[Bloodwake]

Oh my dear sweet god what the fuck is this ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT FUCK HOLLYWOOD FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

FUCK

They might as well put the title screen as someone writing Videodrome in shit colored crayon in Comic Sans.

[TVC15]

For being an obviously terrible writer, I've seen way too many of the movies listed there.

[Great Rumbler]

The new picture will modernize the concept, infuse it with the possibilities of nano-technology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller.

Kill it with fire.

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Ahhh...that's better.

[TVC15]

I wonder if they will still go inside TVs in Bluraydrome.  How would nanotechnology explain that?

[Eric P]

it's just a movie

it doesn't need explanations, consistency or logic

[Van Cruncheon]

it's "imminent" arvie

[Joe Molotov]

Ehren Kruger

 

[Madrun Badrun]

it's "imminent" arvie

It's "Eric P", Doug.  Also sentences start with a capital and end with a period. 

[OptimoPeach]

Relevant to this thread:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUKTRE5360LY20090407

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The impressive opening of "Fast & Furious" during the weekend not only proves there's gas in that franchise, it also gives fuel to Hollywood's obsession with movies based on, well, other movies.

Studios have been remaking movies pretty much since they began making them, but during the past year and particularly the past few months, the remake machine has gone into overdrive.

The 1980s have turned into a full-fledged garage sale of titles. "Romancing the Stone," "Footloose," "A Nightmare on Elm Street," "Dune," "The Karate Kid," "Red Dawn," "RoboCop," "The Big Chill," "Arthur," "Ghostbusters" and "The NeverEnding Story" are but a few of the titles from that decade being developed in Hollywood.

The trend has broadened to include lesser-known properties from other media whose full value was thought to have been realized -- and, in some cases forgotten -- long ago ("Candy Land," anyone?).

When Warner Bros. sought screenwriters for open assignments in February, eight of the 10 requests were for projects based on a previous movie or other branded property.

AN EASIER PITCH

Producers say it is now common for them to check lists of hits from another decade to see what might be easiest legally and creatively to package and set up at a studio.

"If you're trying to get a movie made now, you can push the rock up a mountain or you can push it on flat ground," said one studio-based producer, explaining the rationale for remake mania. "And most of us would rather push it on flat ground."

[Madrun Badrun]

They are making a new dune?  Cool.

[chronovore]

The new picture will modernize the concept, infuse it with the possibilities of nano-technology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller.

Yeah, this is where I felt my Geek Rage engage as well. Holy shit. There are ways to make the original more relevant to today's media environment, but these plebes are missing the point entirely.

[Madrun Badrun]

it's "imminent" arvie

It's "Eric P", Doug.  Also sentences start with a capital and end with a period. 

Well, punctuation goes on the inside of quotation marks. Don't start a game you're not equipped to play!

I knew I was going to get stung with that post.  :'(

[Great Rumbler]

They are making a new dune?  Cool.

As long as they do it right, but given the way big scifi movies have been over the past few years, what are the odd of that?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

The new picture will modernize the concept, infuse it with the possibilities of nano-technology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller.

Yeah, this is where I felt my Geek Rage engage as well. Holy shit. There are ways to make the original more relevant to today's media environment, but these plebes are missing the point entirely.

TWITTERDROME

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[Flannel Boy]

Canada is half-and-half on that subject, Spencer.  IT GETS DEEPER.

Arvie is an expert at Latin, not Canadian English. Commas and periods always come inside quotation marks.

[Flannel Boy]

Gotcha.  I was misinformed that some Canadians still held to British rules.

Many Canadians do, but they're anglophilesdistinguished effete fellows trying to imitate their cultural superiors. The point is that the Canadian rule is to place commas and periods inside quotation marks, not outside.

edit:
After checking two of my Canadian English handbooks and flipping through some newspaper articles, I'm correct.

[OptimoPeach]

That comma rule is bullshit anyway. America does the same thing.

[Flannel Boy]

The real controversy, as we have seen before on evilbore, involves the oxford comma.

[Madrun Badrun]

The comma in the quotes looks stupid anyways. 

","  looks like the Wizard's penis. 

[Flannel Boy]

leper arvie
ban malek

[Howard Alan Treesong]

The real controversy, as we have seen before on evilbore, involves the oxford comma.

who gives a fuck about an oxford comma

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[recursivelyenumerable]

Arvie is an expert at Latin, not Canadian English. Commas and periods always come inside quotation marks.

computer scientists don't have to follow those rules.

[Madrun Badrun]

Saved!

char* temp = "Malek sucks!!!"
printf("%s.\n", temp);

[Eric P]

it's "imminent" arvie

shrug