Omen
From Variety:
John Moore has become bedeviled by "The Omen 666." Moore, who directed "Behind Enemy Lines" and "Flight of the Phoenix" for 20th Century Fox, has been set by the studio to helm a remake of the 1976 horror classic about the arrival of the Antichrist in the home of an unsuspecting family. Dan McDermott is writing a script that contemporizes the tale. Project is on a fast track, as the studio has set a tentative Oct. 3 start date, with 20th prexy Hutch Parker and Peter Kang overseeing. Richard Donner directed the original, which starred Gregory Peck as an ambassador whose dark secret --allowing a baby to be substituted for the one his wife (Lee Remick) lost in childbirth -- comes back to haunt him when the hellish prodigal son begins to hit his evil stride.Do we really need this movie? (OK, I'll skip the obvious joke.)
posted by Carnacki | 7/20/2005 09:43:00 PM
5 Comments:
Man, I am just SICK TO ABSOLUTE DEATH of all these lame horror remakes! I just wish it would stop. Now.
But I'm so getting numb to it these days. I still hate it (with a vengeance), but you just can't stop 'em. Like zombies, they keep on coming! (and usually have about as much life and freshness as a zombie)
It's a joke, really. A really cruel, bad joke for serious horror fans.
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I agree. I'm tired of these lame remakes.
Well said, Howard.
And btw, Ben, thanks for passing that bit of remake news along. Certainly didn't mean to sound like I was poo-pooing your post or anything, it just came spilling out. :) Just saying I hate the trend is all. But, in a morbid way, I still do like to keep up with all the remake news all the same--just to have something to gripe about, if nothing else. :)
No, I quite agreed with you keith. I wrote a lot more originally but thought it came off as a curmudgeonly old man ("Back in my day we had original movies and that's how we liked it") I quite agree with you.
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