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Vampires, Will Smith, Argento ………….. I hate writing.
I have the next couple of days off and am going to focus on my feature I have in development. But, I still wanted to get some info out to my faithful 300 readers a day; thanks, by the way. - I’m not trying to rape and pillage the net for news stories form other sites, but I have a lot of writing to do today if I’mgoing to finish this feature by Halloween.
First up, Variety is reporting that Will Smith is looking at an I AM LEGEND Prequel. I AM LEGEND, a book written by Richard Matheson, a book directly responsible for inspiring Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD as well as being a key read that made Stephen King want to become an author and a film that was released into the world of PG-13. (Brakes screeching)
Don’t worry dog. We got another 20 Million coming.
This is a book near to my heart and if I have my way, I’ll make my own, definitive version of this film one day. The day I heard about I AM LEGEND coming to the screen, twas a bittersweet one. I wanted to make this film, this would be my endead epic but I also was excited to see more undead films with the backing of a major studio. Alas, I predicted the canvas of the film long before it came out, PG-13, Will Smithy “Oh no you didn’t!” pop corn lameness.
The film was an uninsirped piece of crap with CGI vampire creatures to boot. CG Vampires ? What genius made this call during pre-production ? Well, it looks like we’re getting a prequel.
The prequel will chronicle the final days of humanity in New York before a man-made virus caused a plague that left Smith’s character the lone survivor among a mutated mob in the city.
Here’s an idea, ditch Will Smith, pick up where the movie left off and rate this shit R. Does anyone really want to see another PG-13 Horror film for th sake of Box Office profit ? Oh yes, the studios do. Read the article Here.
You can also read my rant from April 2005 when I first learned of the project HERE.
Del Toro
In other news; Guillermo del Toro has inked a publishing deal with HarperCollins imprint William Morrow to pen a trilogy of vampire thrillers with Chuck Hogan. Here we go again with the resurgence of the Vampire film, of which most outright suck, although I loved 30 Days of Night (Rated R.) With the huge popularity of Stephenie Meyer’s young adult novel series ‘Twilight’ you would bet thathere come the Vampires. Always a popular sub genre genre, but what’s the point when we get PG-13 crap. It’s like Soft Core porn but not really. Read it HERE.
Clive Barker’s The Midnight Meat Train.
Midnight Meat Train
Is that fucking Brooke Shields ? Why would you cast Brooke Shields in anything ? Never the less, this still looks pretty cool. The trailer is HERE.
Suspiria remake ? Really.
1977’s Suspiria is an Italian horror film directed by Dario Argento and is often considered Argento’s finest film and a classic of the horror genre. Entertainment Weekly rated it #18 in its top 25 scariest movies of all time, saying it had “the most vicious murder scene ever filmed”, and it was rated #24 on the cable channel Bravo’s list of the “100 Scariest Movie Moments”.
Suspiria
IFMagazine sat down with Giallo Master Dario Argento and to my notice has a Suspiria remake in the works. Here is the interview.
And finally, from CHUD. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN is a Swedish Vampire film that has gotten some nice hype about 2 12 year olds that fall in love. And Hollywood of course has greenlit a reamke directed by Cloverfield director Matt Reeves; yeaaaaaaaah, there’s a good idea. Oh yes, and we shoul remake it PG-13 too !
Oskar is a 12-year-old-boy who is being bullied at school. He befriends a mysterious girl, Eli, who moves in next door with her father Håkan. In the course of the story the reader finds out all is not what it seems. Eli is really a vampire and her ‘father’ supplies her with fresh blood by murdering young boys. As Oskar gradually begins to understand who Eli really is, the bond between them grows stronger. Eli teaches him to stand up to his bullies and Oskar grows increasingly fond of ‘her’.
Eli
The film won the “The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature” at the TriBeCa Film Festival in 2008.
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Ahhh yes. Universal Horror. Some of the most inspiring films in cinema history. As a child, growing up, I recall lazy Saturday afternoons watching Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy, The Creature From the Black Lagoon and yes, completely in love with the Abbott and Costello Meet (Insert Monster) films.
These films have stood the test of time. Horror done right, Gothic atmosphere, dark cemetery’s, spooky mansions and good old fashioned folklore. Studios often trying to duplicate, and usually failing miserably, nothing to me has ever compared to Universal Horror.
Universal has officially launched The Wolf Man site. Starring Benicio Del Toro as Lawrence Talbot (Originally played by Lon Chaney Jr.) and based on the original that launched a legacy that has stood its ground for almost 70 years, I am amped for this.
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Directed by Joe Johnston, whose career started off working with Industrial Light and Magic in the visual effects department, he has since went on to quietly become quite the director. His directing credits include:
Hidalgo (2004)
Jurassic Park III (2001)
October Sky (1999)
Jumanji (1995)
The Rocketeer (1991)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Sans Jumanji, I’m liking his body of work he has put together.
The original wolfman was so scary despite its old school transformation using dissolves and transitions as the makeup was applied by FX Legend Jack Pierce. Rick Baker does the FX this time and it isn’t the first foray into Wolfman lore; he did the Make-Up for the classic masterpiece An American Werewolf in London.
The Wolf Man
“What I did in this film wasn’t all that different from what Jack Pierce did in the original.” says Rick Baker. That’s a good thing in my book. As much as I like a few of the modern Universal Horror films like The Mummy, I still have trouble stomaching the CGI cartoony approach to the monsters these days.
Also starring Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving and Anthony Hopkins (as Sir John Talbot, originally played by the legendary Claude Rains) I’ll be sure to keep a close eye on this one. Incidentally, this will the second foray into Universal Horror for Hopkins. He played Van Helsing in Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
The film is set for release in Spring 2009.
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PER WIKI:
In 1941, Chaney starred in the title role of The Wolf Man for Universal Pictures Co. Inc., a role which would typecast him for the rest of his life. He maintained a career at Universal horror movies over the next few years, replaying the Wolf Man in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Frankenstein’s monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein, Kharis the mummy in The Mummy’s Tomb, The Mummy’s Ghost and The Mummy’s Curse. He also played the offspring of Count Dracula in Son of Dracula. Chaney is thus the only actor to portray all four of Universal’s major monsters: the Wolf Man, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy, and the vampire son of Dracula.
Born Creighton Tull Chaney in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the son of Lon Chaney and Frances Cleveland Creighton Chaney, a singing stage performer who traveled in road shows across the country with Lon. His parents’ troubled marriage ended in divorce in 1913 following a scandalous public suicide attempt by his mother in Los Angeles. Young Creighton lived in various homes and boarding schools until 1916, when his father (now employed in films) remarried Hazel Hastings and could provide a stable home. Many articles and biographies over the years report that Creighton was led to believe his mother Cleva had died while he was a boy, and was only made aware she lived after his father’s death in 1930.
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