Title: POLTERGEIST remake confirmed
William S. Wilson - November 13, 2007 05:09 PM (GMT)
News via Bloody Disgusting:
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| We can now 100% CONFIRM - without a shadow of a doubt - that Mandate Pictures will be producing the remake for MGM. This is a fact, this is done, this is not speculation and it's time to quite denying it (yes you sh-tty fan site). The remake won't happen until post-strike, so watch for news in 2008. |
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/10437I've always knew this was going to happen and am surprised it has taken this long. I really wish the people behind this wouldn't remake the film but make a continuation. You can have Robbie and Carol Ann as adults. Or have a new family move into the same house, only to discover the horror the Freelings went through. But you know they won't do that.
Bob Gutowski - November 13, 2007 05:13 PM (GMT)
No, but I guess we can look forward to Peter Dinklage as the medium!
(Go ahead - I said "medium"...)
Neil Jackson - November 13, 2007 07:15 PM (GMT)
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| No, but I guess we can look forward to Peter Dinklage as the medium! |
...and Steven Spielberg in the phantom director's chair.
Bob Gutowski - November 13, 2007 07:27 PM (GMT)
THE PHANTOM DIRECTOR - rightfully the title of that awful STAR WARS thingie.
Since there was recently a POLTERGEIST-inspired Kohler bathtub ad which figured paranormal doings and objects careening around a room, courtesy of CGI, we won't be very surprised or inpressed to see THAT in the remake, will we? I reading in CINEFEX about how painstakingly the original POLTERGEST sfx artists worked to get those shots, especially the one from behind Beatrice Straight: they joked about memorizing every hair on her head.
There's not the effort involved anymore, is there? Since they can portray anything, what's the thrill? Why bother building a rotating room when you can greenscreen the actress anywhere in the actual standing set you want, including the non-existent in reality ceiling!
JEFFREY ALLEN RYDELL - November 14, 2007 05:33 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (William S. Wilson @ Nov 13 2007, 12:09 PM) |
| Or have a new family move into the same house... |
Same house?! :o
It'd have to be a family of Dinklages! Inter-dimensional ones! And not picky, neither!
William S. Wilson - November 14, 2007 05:50 AM (GMT)
D'oh! I should have thought that one through better. How about the same plot of land in a neighborhood that is trying to dismiss the past events as hogwash or urban legend. Hell, you can still get James Karen to play the slimy real estate guy.