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Some extra news on THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE!!!
While confirming up some of the other news about Dreamworks on the site today, I came across a spy I'll call Just Kidding. Anyway, Just Kidding told me that everybody is real real excited about what is going on with THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE. Just Kidding said that the real star of the film is the same as it was in Robert Wise's original... the house. And to make sure we know that they hired the following technical team to make sure that house is properly shown. The first behind the scenes star is Caleb Deschanel.
Who?
Caleb Deschanel. He's been the director of photography on films like... oh... how about THE NATURAL, THE RIGHT STUFF, FLY AWAY HOME and BEING THERE. What does this mean? Well it means a cinematographer that really has a great grasp of lights and shadows is at work. Someone that could make this house live just by playing with the lights. Personally, the best part of the original HAUNTING was the photography. The use of foreground, midground and background was exquisite. Caleb is about as good as we could possibly hope for.
Then Just Kidding, told me that Eugenio Zanetti is the Production Designer on the flick. When I asked who.... well Just Kidding started laughing at me like I was a high school dropout taking a BAR exam. He then told me that this Eugenio fella was a genius that did the amazing work on WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, a masterpiece of production design btw. I looked him up over at IMDB and found out he also did FLATLINERS and RESTORATION. Two films that if you combined... well they would kinda give us an idea of how this house should look.
Then Michael Kahn, Spielberg's own editor, will be chop chop chopping away as editor on the film. He's just a god of editing, having done most of your favorite big films like BLACK BELT JONES, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, POLTERGEIST, THE GOONIES, JURASSIC PARK and SCHINDLER'S LIST.
So basically what Just Kidding was telling me was the film has the right skill positions. And we already know that DeBont is going with a great cast thus far. Geez, I hope he doesn't screw this up. Glen over at Coaxial is a big fan of DeBont's, and I have to say that given the scripts he's had... he's done a decent job. I just hope that he does a great job with this script, cause I'm a big fan. Especially if they tone down some of the end stuff a bit, cause right now some of it feels like.... "Oh, we have made a great movie so far, but gosh, we have to do something to make the audience come back 1000 times, cause a great movie ain't enough" Ya know what I'm saying? Cool. So there ya go.
Caleb Deschanel. He's been the director of photography on films like... oh... how about THE NATURAL, THE RIGHT STUFF, FLY AWAY HOME and BEING THERE. What does this mean? Well it means a cinematographer that really has a great grasp of lights and shadows is at work. Someone that could make this house live just by playing with the lights. Personally, the best part of the original HAUNTING was the photography. The use of foreground, midground and background was exquisite. Caleb is about as good as we could possibly hope for.
Then Just Kidding, told me that Eugenio Zanetti is the Production Designer on the flick. When I asked who.... well Just Kidding started laughing at me like I was a high school dropout taking a BAR exam. He then told me that this Eugenio fella was a genius that did the amazing work on WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, a masterpiece of production design btw. I looked him up over at IMDB and found out he also did FLATLINERS and RESTORATION. Two films that if you combined... well they would kinda give us an idea of how this house should look.
Then Michael Kahn, Spielberg's own editor, will be chop chop chopping away as editor on the film. He's just a god of editing, having done most of your favorite big films like BLACK BELT JONES, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, POLTERGEIST, THE GOONIES, JURASSIC PARK and SCHINDLER'S LIST.
So basically what Just Kidding was telling me was the film has the right skill positions. And we already know that DeBont is going with a great cast thus far. Geez, I hope he doesn't screw this up. Glen over at Coaxial is a big fan of DeBont's, and I have to say that given the scripts he's had... he's done a decent job. I just hope that he does a great job with this script, cause I'm a big fan. Especially if they tone down some of the end stuff a bit, cause right now some of it feels like.... "Oh, we have made a great movie so far, but gosh, we have to do something to make the audience come back 1000 times, cause a great movie ain't enough" Ya know what I'm saying? Cool. So there ya go.
Then Michael Kahn, Spielberg's own editor, will be chop chop chopping away as editor on the film. He's just a god of editing, having done most of your favorite big films like BLACK BELT JONES, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, POLTERGEIST, THE GOONIES, JURASSIC PARK and SCHINDLER'S LIST.
So basically what Just Kidding was telling me was the film has the right skill positions. And we already know that DeBont is going with a great cast thus far. Geez, I hope he doesn't screw this up. Glen over at Coaxial is a big fan of DeBont's, and I have to say that given the scripts he's had... he's done a decent job. I just hope that he does a great job with this script, cause I'm a big fan. Especially if they tone down some of the end stuff a bit, cause right now some of it feels like.... "Oh, we have made a great movie so far, but gosh, we have to do something to make the audience come back 1000 times, cause a great movie ain't enough" Ya know what I'm saying? Cool. So there ya go.
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I was just thinking. One of the most famous Haunted House flicks ever made is The Shining.
Based on the evidence within his films, the naming of characters, the films being shown at cimemas, etc., Doesn't Jan De Bont think that he is Stanley Kubrick?
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Well, this sucks. THE HAUNTING with computer graphics. Somebody slap me if I'm outta line here, but wasn't the most terrifying aspect of The Haunting the fact that the audience didn't SEE any ghosts? And with that, to my pedestal:
Remakes are just shortcuts to thinking, funded by a sad cross section of studio execs who think they have a pulse on public taste and market synergy just because they've read "HIT AND RUN."
"Indie" filmmakers are just as guilty, because they're pirating their road-trip-girl-with-gun-lets-talk-about-pop-culture cinema trash from ONE ANOTHER, at a faster rate, and under the guise of being an original film.
If I had to choose the lesser of the two evils when it came to remakes, I'd pick the studios.
Because at least they're not pawning off their remakes as byproducts of auteur genius.
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People have mis-interpreted what I have meant.
Jan De Bont isn't fit to lick Stanley Kubricks shoes when it comes to making films, it's just that he thinks he does.
Stanley Kubrick is the most important and influential film maker ever, responsible or Paths Of Glory, The Shining, Dr Strangelove and many more.
Jan De Bont made Speed 2, Nuff Said.
My point was that Jan De Bont wants to be Kubrick, but never will be. Ever. -
Spielberg, the best haunted house movie director ? No way! Poltergeist was good but not great. The best horror film
and haunted house story in the history of film is Robert Wise's
THE HAUNTING. Only Kubrick's
film of THE SHINING ranks as
2nd best. I can't believe Hollywood is re-making
THE HAUNTING! God damn bastards!
What's next ? Casablanca ?!
Second, please PLEASE don't tell me they're going to use CGI
and computer graphics to turn
the film's dark scarry creepy
sounds and silence of the horror
of the unknown and unseen into
another lame Poltergeist rip-off.
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Is Jan De Bont really all that bad? Ok sure Speed 2 was crap but Speed surely can be regarded as good & Twister not bad is it? I'm not saying De Bont is a great director but he does make good big blockbuster unlike others e.g.Stephen Hopkins, Roger Donaldson.... And there's nothing wrong with attempting to remake a film e.g. box office smash 'A Perfect Murder'. One last thing, whats with all of you your dated devotion to Kubrick? Come on the man's nearly 70 & he makes 1 film every 10 years! Time to let him join Hitchcock a great movie director and to look to the future of movies 'Kevin Smith', 'Paul Thomas Anderson' & 'Shane Meadows'.
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Throughout this site, there has been talk a screenplay for The Haunting Of Hill House, based of the novel by Shirley Jackson, on which the film The Haunting by Robert Wise was based. At no point has it confused The Haunting Of Hill House with The Legend Of Hell House. The only person who seems to have gotten these films confused is yourself. By the way, John Hough also directed Escape From Witch Mountain.
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I don't know where all that venom you spewed out came from (must be a personal problem), but would you please take it somewhere else. Your comments about 'Hill House' and 'Hell House' show that you obviously didn't read this article very carefully. True this area is to allow the fans to express their opinions, but I would hardly consider your outpouring of crap a legitimate opinion. Please just go away untill you can learn to play with the adults.
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