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DON'T LOOK NOW, but there seems to be another remake in the works!
Hey folks, Harry here with another story that popped up in Hollywood Reporter. This time, it is a remake of a film that should only be remade with the utmost care. Personally, I don't think it should be remade. Nicolas Roeg's original film is one of the most genuinely perfect haunting, erotic and thrilling films of the 70s. There's only perhaps 2 directors I'd be interested in seeing revisit this material. David Lynch or Steven Soderbergh. Soderbergh already revisited the love scene in his way, when he did George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez's love scene in OUT OF SIGHT. I just don't believe we exist in times where actors would be allowed to be as natural as Sutherland and Christie were in this film. Put the actual love scene aside.. that scene of them just getting their day started was just magnificent. I just hope that Andrea Berloff doesn't "thriller" this up.
Mark Gordon is planning to produce a remake of "Don't Look Now" for Paramount Pictures.
The 1973 film, directed by Nicolas Roeg and based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier, created a sensation in the early '70s thanks to a highly erotic love scene featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie.
Andrea Berloff will write the screenplay for the adaptation, which centers on a couple, John and Laura Baxter, who go to Venice, Italy, to recuperate after the sudden death of their daughter only to encounter strange visions that suggest their daughter's presence.
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Nope it's to early in the morning,must be a typo
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Joaquin Phoenix as The Joker!
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If they're gonna do remakes, they should remake, Colossus The Forbin Project, preferably with Harrison Ford.
Wake up Universal, you've got a great story on your hands! -
I've never heard of this film, and personally David Lynch and Steven Soderbergh are just annoying.
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Back inna day, Donnie Sutherland and Elliot Gould, they was a-both hunks a hunks a burnin' a-love, baby! I wanted to a-cast dem inna my Kong, but a-by 1977, they was a-has-beens. Rumor a-has it, dat a-Gould, he was a-hung a-like a-the horse.
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Some films honestly really shouldn't be remade. This is one of them. Sure most films would work as a remake but you in this case nobody could bring anything to it. It exists in a vacuum as a perfect film for what it is. You can't add to the story, the performances, the motifs, the psychology and especially to the direction. It's a money making exercise and that's all it is. As such it will be a piece of crap. No artistic merit whatsoever.
Liljuniorbrown fair enough about the Donald Sutherland comment but you forgot about Julie Christie (a film of her humping Rush Limbaugh would be erotic). What makes it so great as Harry alluded to, was that Roeg cuts back and forth from the sex to them getting dressed etc afterwards. It's so real and vivid. Plus unlike most love scenes in movies it isn't a seduction. It is a damaged married couple doing it to feel something again to try and get their old lives back. To The Pusher...what the hell are you doing on a movie site if you have never heard of Don't Look Now, I know its not a sci-fi or geek film but really you should get a grip on the basics.
Like I said I'm biased. Anyone with me? -
Please NO!
Don't look now is... Laurence Of Arabia, is...
This is a black day in movie history. Pitch Black.
Can anyone unleash an email bombardment for Paramount?
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DLN is cinematically inventive and dynamic. Piece of trivia for you: originally, DLN and 'The Wicker Man' were released together as a double-bill (in '73). Can you believe that?
I love this movie because of its ambition and daring. Sure, a lot of people will find it suffocatingly languid and boring, but I don't care. It's a slow burn - and proof that films with a supernatural theme need not be disposable. This film has substance, and it simply looks amazing. Who wants to go to Venice? Watch out for murderi... oops!
ps. fuck a remake of this film. -
This is ridiculous - Don't Look Now is a completely unique film in terms of mood. It is a film almost completely reliant on atmosphere & setting & Hollywood will fuck it up - without a doubt...
Silly fuckwits - is nothing sacred..
Actually - i'm glad, because they'll lose a shit load on it. How do you market a film like that? How will they attempt that famous sex scene? What about freaky dwarf-woman? It can't work... -
I always seem to catch this on the late late show, about 20 minutes before it ends. I always catch the payoff but never the set-up, so I don't know if the movie's worth it or not. Not too sorry I missed out on an erotic Don Sutherland scene though... yee-ikes! Personally, I'm remaked out, yeah, I'm gonna see War of the Worlds and Wonka, I've been looking forward to both those for a while. I'm really looking forward to actual new stuff like Corpse Bride, Serenity, Narnia, Potter and Brothers Grimm. I want to see new ideas on the field, something I haven't seen before.
Attention Hollywood!!!
Please proceed to your local library....whole lot of ideas for movies there, I mean can the rights for the Chrysalids, Weaveworld or even the Discworld books be that much of a pain in the ass to get? -
Good Lord watching those too back to back make just make you the most paranoid schizophrenic depressed movie buff ever. In a good way of course. lol.
I hope it bombs spectacularly but I suspect they will gloss it up and probably change the ending a touch. But no the Wicker Man remake is under way as well. Its like all the sacred cows are being slaughtered. Have you heard Nick Cage isnt going to be a virgin in it!?!?!? I mean for goodness sake they just half the point of the entire film by changing that fact. Dear Hollywood, Fuck off and Fuck you. -
Jun 27, 2005 9:10:15 AM CDT
Well the real question is: will they cast Hulk Hogan as the dwar
by dutchfudge
Cause he would be like... perfect.
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but I have heard of it over the years. I did see however a lot of clips on that "100 Scariest Movie Moments" show of this film. I'll probably rent this one and forget the remake unless thaey do get Lynch or Soderberg. LOVE the love scene in Out Of Sight, did not know it was a nod to this film.
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It doesn't matter WHAT individuals are involved. Perhaps you, um, guys would like to share WHO you think is erotic. Your statements imply the possibility. As for the remake, I reserve judgment.
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I'm also a big fan of "Don't Look Now". I found it not too long ago at the library, of all places. It's a great horror film...languid and haunting. The dwarf-killer is still great. And "Wicker Man" is one of my top ten favorite horror films of all time. The fact that they're remaking BOTH of these...really, these are both British movies (British directors), Hollywood should show them some respect and leave them alone. But I guess that's too much to ask of Hollywood - respect of the past, let alone another country's past.
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I don't get it, what's the point of remaking a perfect film, if anyone with any clout is reading this, please think again, for a start, you won't make any money on this unless you butcher the story beyond belief - and well, well for fuck's sake its a fucking monkey stupid idea, leave it alone.
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But Soderbergh? C'mon. Why not Jim Jarmush? He wipes his ass with Soderberg's films. (although Ocean's 11 was good sunday afternoon entertainment)
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So what the hell are they going to this GREAT film to get it ready for the masses? Fuck it up, that's what.
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Granted, I suppose, that Remakes are a problem when their opportunity cost is that a studio chooses them over a fresh project that would be better. That having been said, on their own merits, I say remakes are good. They actually serve as a compliment to the original film and generally provide the original with a brief viewing renaissance. Take PJ's King Kong. Regardless of whether it is amazing or awful, it can never ever replace the original King Kong in cinema history. And it will likely mean that all of us who've never actually watched the original King Kong from start to finish will get to see it on TV or in the video store. Same with this movie - it wasnt on my radar screen and now it is. So who loses?
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After he destroys whats left of the X-Men franchise, he can really screw this up too! Np wait...lets get Uwe Boll!!!!!
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I don't have a problem with remakes where advancements in CGI or special FX can add value to the original idea, but what's to add here, Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz? Give it a rest kids.
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Jun 27, 2005 10:44:17 AM CDT
hope it languishes in development hell until all involved with t
by film whisperer
that about says it all for me. This movie and David Lean's SUMMERTIME made me fall in love with Venice.
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this is the worst idea ive ever heard.
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Even tho the dwarf is uber creepy, its kind of a stupid reveal. Its just like, okay, wha??? I'm not a huge fan of the film so this doesn't offend me like, say, The Birds or Wicker Man, but I'm still anti-remake so fuck this flick. It MUST take place in Venice tho, great locale.
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For the love of god please stop this. Hollywood has already proved that it has absolutely no respect for other countrie's (or it's own) film heritage. There really is no need to prove this further with another watered down remake. This is just really really sad.
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They need it to be "accesible" to all.
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Jun 27, 2005 3:07:40 PM CDT
I'll only see this if it recreates the sex scene with Brad P
by film whisperer
Or Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston. Any combo of that will do, thank you.
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I agree with billy_morrell, a remake that uses new special f/x to update an old movie is fine. A movie that was a great concept that was executed poorly is also ripe for a remake. But when you look at a movie like DON'T LOOK NOW... here's a movie that wasn't based on a unique or even particularly interesting concept. The only reason it's stood the test of time is that it was executed in such an interesting way by the director. While many do not, I loved the original. So what's the point of remaking a movie that doesn't even have a unique or interesting concept? If some brilliant filmmaker doesn't direct the hell out of it, it's going to be just another programmer based on a tired concept. I don't get it.
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How can TBers be so incensed by every remake announcement, yet be waiting with bated breath for KING KONG? KONG is one of the great film masterpieces. Its been fucked once in the remake machine. Where's the sancticity there? At least DONT LOOK NOW isn't regarded as a "classic", just a great, subtle thriller. Where's the outrage for KONG? Why? Because PJ is directing it? Would remakes be OK if Clint Eastwood, or Spielberg, or Coppola, or Tarantiino were doing it? What's the cut off point for outrage?
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David Lynch is the only director I can think of that would make this interesting. But a director like Lynch doesn't seem the type to want to remake a movie like DON'T LOOK NOW which is remembered pretty much exclusively because of the distinctive stamp the director put on it. Today's great directors are movie geeks so why would they want to remake an old movie that was already so well-directed? I would have thought Soderbergh would never do this, but then he went and remade SOLARIS.
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Jun 27, 2005 3:46:32 PM CDT
NO REASON WHATSOEVER TO REMAKE, it's a great film and it hol
by demosthenes2
Even the originals that I appreciate, with the horror films that are unapologetically oriented toward exploitation I don't mind the remakes. But this here was a classy, accomplished film that has some smart ideas, great characters, and master-craftsman tension. I'd much rather see Nicholas Roeg himself come back with something new in the thriller genre, he did it so elegantly with sharp Hitchcock stylings. His next project is listed as horror/scifi called Adina on imdb, but so many projects get listed as in preproduction on imdb that I can't get my hopes up, but I do hope we hear from him again.
Still I guess you never know, I thought the Dawn of the Dead remake was going to be awful but it was great and gave us something completely different, I felt, without pissing on the original, which is what any remake absolutely must do if these things called remakes really want to exist. -
Jun 27, 2005 3:51:34 PM CDT
King Kong can be improved upon. Ok it is a clasic of early cinem
by tonywilson
But you can't bring Anything to Don't Look Now. Like i said earlier it exists perfectly in its own little vacuum. There is nothing more to add to the film. It would be gilding the lilly at the very best. There is no artistic merit to the remake it is purely money.
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with himself starring. Directors rumored to be considered are Spielberg, Soderburg, Pittsburg and Brent Ratner.
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Jun 27, 2005 6:10:50 PM CDT
it would be much cooler to simply come up with an original story
by mansep
how about hollywood employs some execs with a bit of originality and vision!? oh wait, that's an oxymoron.
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Everyone will know about it well in advance, hell just read this talkback and the film will be spoiled for you. And changing the ending just won't work.
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I hope they get a really hot bitch to play Donald Sutherland's part so that the erotic sex scene is of two really hot lezes totally macking and squirting all over each other.
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Jun 28, 2005 2:21:15 AM CDT
Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Barbra Streisand, Full Bush Po
by flim springfield
It was like the Bizarro Decade or something.
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TonyWilson and other devotees of Roeg's brilliance have it dead on. LEAVE it alone. Object lesson in editing, color palette, subliminal symbolism and one of the most successful uses of a location as a virtual character. Saw this as a teenage lad on BBC2 one Sunday night long ago - slavering in anticipation over the sex scene - and ended up sleepless and haunted by the imagery and the tension of the last half-hour. Caught it on cable a few months back and it still exerts a powerful grip. Some body of work that man put together when you think about it: Walkabout, Bad Timing, Man Who Fell To Earth...Pity about Eureka - although it was fun to see Gene and Rutger chew it up. Anybody remember a cracking Channel Four doc on Roeg in the 80s where he wasn't actually interviewed until the very end, and barely answered one question? Sigh. Anyway, let's have this remake johnny slaughtered. Preferably by a dwarf in a red raincoat.
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In order to keep the film fresh and poppin', the Execs have rewritten the ending and taken care of the uber-erotic love scene at the same time. In the new verion's big reveal, the little dwarf in the red coat turns around, has sex with Donald Sutherland (now aged significantly), and the sex scene is spliced with scenes of the dwarf stabbing him as he gets dressed. Talk about fresh!
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This is as stupid an idea as remaking Friedkin's "Sorcerer."
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Please, don't
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Jul 01, 2005 10:15:51 AM CDT
-Spoiler- After seeing the ending on the Bravo special...
by anna valerious
I have to wonder...it was a diminutive old lady?! What the hell?! Will they even give us a reason why she's snapped and started killing people? That's what I want to know.
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