July 19, 2005
Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake!
Has some Producer just eyed the IMDB listing for Donald Sutherland and thought "let's go crazy with the budget"?
Not content with the destruction of Don't Look Now, FilmForce are reporting that the remake crew are onto Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Okay, not just a Sutherland movie (Spock was in it too!) there have been three others:
...a 1956 film by Don Siegel and a 1978 remake by Philip Kaufman that starred the likes of Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, and Leonard Nimoy, as well as one lesser-known 1993 film, starring Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly and R. Lee Ermey.
Still, I'm inclined to think good thoughts about this movie, and you should too, mainly because of who is set to Direct:
German filmmaker Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall, Das Experiment) is set to direct the picture...
If you haven't seen Das Experiment then you really should. It's an excellent piece of cinema, and very unnerving. Still, there's a new writer onboard who's working on two other scripts, so if it's a bad script there's not a great deal the Director can do. IMDB already have a listing for the remake. Thoughts? Other than the obvious remake cries.
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Comments
Posted by: Tan The Man at July 19, 2005 08:27 PM
That's a lot of remakes for a single title. What's the drive behind a 3rd remake?
Posted by: ChrisP at July 20, 2005 05:13 PM
I think I can understand the ideas behind another Snatchers film. The Snatchers were metaphors for something in the past, McCarthyism for the first film, for example.
I can see this one with the Snatchers as metaphor for...oh, I guess the current political system and an unpopular war.
An upadate on Sntachers is not as bad as other remakes. Could we see something different? Perhaps. Do we need anotther Snatchers film? No.
Posted by: darren seeley at July 22, 2005 09:54 PM
The original and the 1978 remake were great. The 1993 version sucked, except for the nudity. Another remake would be terrible.