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East of Eden remake in the works?
Published at: Jan. 14, 2009, 3:44 a.m. CST by
quint
Ahoy, squirts!
Quint
here. During the AMAD run I caught a few Elia Kazan films that blew me away (like PANIC IN THE STREETS), but of his stuff I had, of course, seen EAST OF EDEN thanks to being one of only a few films to star icon James Dean. I don't think there's much wrong with the movie, but
Universal is ramping up another adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel to be directed by JOHN ADAMS helmer Tom Hooper and scripted by Christopher Hampton (ATONEMENT, DANGEROUS LIAISONS. Now, I loved John Adams... great show and I also quite liked ATONEMENT, so I have no problem with the pairing. It's going to be difficult for Hooper to find Dean's like, though. I'm not very familiar with Steinbeck, I'm sorry to say, so I have no idea how faithful the 1955 movie was. Hooper promises a dark film full of sex and violence as well as a celebration of love and optimism, so maybe it could be a bit harder than the original film. You may remember hearing rumblings about this movie a while back, still at Universal, but with Ron Howard directing. It will be an Imagine Entertainment movie, but Howard chose not to sit in the chair this time out. What do you folks think?
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