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Superboy and that hot blonde from LOST cast in remake of THE FOG!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some... interesting news. Hollywood Reporter says SMALLVILLE's Tom Welling and LOST's Maggie "I'm damn hot in a Dominique Swain kinda way" Grace is cast in SHITMATA... erm, I mean STIGMATA director Rupert Wainwright's attempt at topping John Carpenter's awesome 1980 film, THE FOG.
I don't have much faith in this adaptation. Although I don't particularly care for SMALLVILLE personally, I don't have any problem with Tom Welling and I love LOST and want to see any of the cast move on to do something cool... however, it seems that casting for this film is going the traditional "pull young hot people from TV" route that I really dislike, especially since the original had a predominantly older cast. I mean, Jamie Lee Curtis was the young face in the older crowd in the original.
I just have a feeling that this film will totally abandon the slow creep and the atmosphere for a clone of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER. I hope I'm wrong. I didn't think the ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 remake was going to be anything but a turd and I was proven wrong there, so who knows? But I can say that they didn't cast ASSAULT off of the WB...
Anyway, here's what the Hollywood Reporter article (which you can read here) has to say:
Tom Welling and Maggie Grace will star in the remake of John Carpenter's classic horror thriller "The Fog" for Revolution Studios. Rupert Wainwright is directing and Debra Hill, David Foster and Carpenter are producing the film, which Cooper Layne is penning from the screenplay written by Hill and Carpenter for the original 1980 film. "Fog" is set in a Northern California town where, about 100 years ago, a ship sank under mysterious circumstances in a thick, eerie fog. The ghosts of the deceased mariners return from their watery graves to seek their revenge. Welling will play a local boat owner who never left the town, and Grace will portray a college girl who is back in her hometown for the summer. CAA-repped Welling is the star of the WB Network hit "Smallville." He also appeared in the feature "Cheaper By the Dozen." Grace, repped by Innovative Artists, is best known for the ABC hit "Lost." (Borys Kit)
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I'd like to see Welling silence some his naysayers with a strong performance in his first lead film role. It'd be interesting to see the reaction if he delivers a better turn in this than soap-opera reject Brandon Routh manages as Superman in Warners' summer blockbuster.
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Feb 20, 2005 6:45:51 AM CST
If Adrienne Barbeau and Hal Holbrook aint in this I ain't intere
by spacesheik
Another WB remake with teens --- lovely.
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Feb 20, 2005 6:47:12 AM CST
I'd like to think that Carpenter'll be able to stop WB from rapi
by monkey butler
But that seems doubtful. And Welling and Grace aren't exactly what you'd call proven actors - they're adequete for their roles on TV, but it still seems like a bit of a risk.
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So who cares about a remake? It'll make big teen $ the first week, drop 55% the second, and will be on the video shelves within a couple of months.
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It's stuff like this and movies like The Mask 2 that make you realize why so few people can break into the movie business. You wonder how many great scripts are rejected so that producers and studios can keep turning out crap.
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Feb 20, 2005 10:52:05 AM CST
Yah, she is wayyyyy hottt....I have her bikini shots in the sun
by judge briggs
Fucked Charmed.
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Feb 20, 2005 11:04:45 AM CST
I dont see the fuss over The Fog. It was a decent movie, but not
by mr. profit
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I thought the superhot blonde on Lost was the Austrailian chick. Maggie Grace is hot, but a hot accent boosts the overall Hotness score by at least 4-5.
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You're dead on. Their both hot - don't get me wrong - but Emilie de Raven (despite the stupid name) is hotter. Australian accents are great - I dont care how hot a chick is, if she's speaking in an Australian accent you fully expect her to turn around and just blurt out "What do you say we knock back a few beers, mate, and then head back to my place for some all night sex". So that wins.
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Is a real sweetie , and ya she looked great in that bikini on the beach also when she was talking to the iraqi dude with her lovely feet in the air :P I loved the move The Fog and hope they dont fuck this up.
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Hope they do a time travel story. A future Kal-el travels back in time. Its some kind of big time threat like doomsday, Future kal-el punches out present kal-el, turns to Martha and Jonathan and says *This isn't something that Clark Kent can handle, and he pulls the shirt open, This is a Job for Superman*
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oh well.
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And i'm a huge Carpenter fan, but I don't think it's in the same league as Assault, Halloween, The Things, Big Trouble or even They Live and Prince of Darkness. The fog has a kick ass premise. That's why a studio with a big budget thinks they can turn a remake into a big hit. But the Fog is the one film of Carpenters that is overrated IMO.
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Feb 20, 2005 1:32:59 PM CST
I like to think of Maggie Grace as the unbelievably hot Swede on
by lenny nero
That's right. I watched and enjoyed "Oliver Beene." Wanna fight about it?
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that the poster above also watches Family Guy... wanna fight about it?
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I don't understand why Carpenter and Hill are putting their names on this. Does JC like seeing his films turned into generic remakes? I understand how the above poster thinks The Fog is overrated--it's not one of my Carpenter favs either. But it's unmistakably John Carpenter, and it bugs me when they remake films of a stylist. The screenplays aren't the main reason I love his stufff. At any rate, we can only conclude that JC and Hill aren't getting enough money to fund their own ideas, and are just using this to build up some capital. Good luck.
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Feb 20, 2005 6:39:23 PM CST
Oh, I thought this was referring to the gal who plays Claire on
by jim jam bongs
I prefer her over the one who plays Shannon. :(
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The Mist is a short story by Stephen King which can be found in Night Shift. They're similar stories whereas in Fog vikings come out of the fog, but unholy monsters come out of the mist.
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Or do I need to adjust my screen color? The hot blonde is the bitchy sister, Shannon.
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Weren't they behind America's Sweethearts and many other shitty movies? Really have they made anything good that I'm not aware of?
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short answer: no they have not. here's a short list of movies: Daddy Day Care, The Forgotten, 13 Going On 30, Mona Lisa Smile, GIGLI, Darkness Falls, the upcoming XXX 2 and last but certainly not least, Are We There Yet. Blaaaaah. Typing that shit almost made me vomit.
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...Big Tuna, all of Carpenter's films kind of suck. But they suck in a very distinctive and cool way. The dialogue is hackneyed and the characters are all types, but the atmosphere is always dead on thanks to the music. They are great B-movies in that not a one of them will ever win an award for screenwriting, directing or acting, yet we'll pick them nine times out of ten over everything else on late night cable because they're fucking cool to have playing in the background while we play on our computers. In that way, Lazarus is right. They're the works of a movie stylist. The Thing and Halloween may be the only exceptions in that they were well written movies and the types utilized to move the plots forward were all played to the gills by the actors involved. Big Trouble in Little China was a self- and genre-parody, so that succeeds in a very campy way as a movie in its own right. And Escape from New York gave us Snake Plissken, so we can forgive the muddled plot, phoned in dialogue (from everyone but Kurt Russel and Isaac Hayes) and cheap special effects. But the rest of Carpenter's work is all what it is. Love them or hate them, it's hard to set one film above the others (although In the Mouth of Madness just doesn't have the Carpenter cool factor going on for some reason and is really just a shitty movie). So while The Fog remake might be a good movie if they really change up the dialogue and hire some decent actors, it won't be a Carpenter movie. Oh... and Dented Helmet, The Mist is a novella occupying the first hundred or so pages of Skeleton Crew, one of King's mid-to-late 80s compilations of short fiction. Night Shift was much earlier (and contains some of King's other best work). He's alwas been a better short story writer than a novelist (his novels are the literary equivalent of John Carpenter movies), but the Mist is pretty damned good.
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Die. Just die.
Still, with the announcements of "Suspiria", "Hitcher" and perhaps even "Exorcist" remakes, I should no longer feel surprised by such news. If God existed, he would have rewarded any thought of making a remake by sending instant paralysis on the proposent of this idea. Then he would top it off with an attack of skin itching.
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huzzah!
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