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Long Live The New New Flesh? VIDEODROME remake in development...

Hey folks, Harry here... In 1983, I did not see VIDEODROME. That was after my parents' divorce, and I'm relatively certain that it didn't play the nearest theaters to me in Wichita Falls, Texas at that time. However, when it hit HBO - I saw it at like 3 in the morning via Satellite on the Ranch I was living and I remember it freaked my shit right out!

David Cronenberg's VIDEODROME is as classic as they come. James Woods' performance is so freaky, the effects felt absolutely filthy. The concept of the New Flesh and the interactivity with video was mind-blowing to me as a kid - and watching that film today... It packs an even stronger punch because you realize just how pussy most of what we get today is by comparison.

So - it should put you at ease to know that Universal has snatched up the remake rights - and that Ehren Kruger (writer on ARLINGTON ROAD, THE RING remake, THE SKELETON KEY, THE BROTHERS GRIMM and this summer's TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN) is updating and most likely under the delusion of improving material that most likely will be... what? I kinda can't imagine what a big version of VIDEODROME would be intended to be.

Certainly - it'll forego the brilliant and innovative practical effects in lieu of the latest and greatest of digital effects, but will it be as sweaty and nasty and lurid as the original? Will it even touch on the psycho-sexual overtones?

I suppose all we can do is sit back and watch what happens to this classic material - and hope that a director comes aboard that has the brilliant imagination and the sack that Cronenberg had when he made the original.

In the Variety article by Michael Fleming - he mentions that both Denzel and Tom Cruise will each be making at least one film before they work together on Cronenberg's THE MATARESE CIRCLE - so I wonder if David would be interested in reapproaching the New Flesh given the 26 years that have passed since this film. Honestly - that's pretty much the only way I can conceive of being rabid for this remake. Meanwhile, Enjoy these...









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Well, this will suck.
by Bones
Apr 27th, 2009
01:24:35 AM
We are taking to remaking avant garde classics now?
by Bones
Apr 27th, 2009
01:26:28 AM
Darren Aronofsky's VIDEODROME
by ProziumJunkie
Apr 27th, 2009
01:32:20 AM
Wow, Hollywood really is creatively bankrupt as well as fiscally
by metaluna
Apr 27th, 2009
01:32:30 AM
Featuring newcomer Joshua Swaney
by ProziumJunkie
Apr 27th, 2009
01:33:55 AM
NOOOOOOOOO
by gnarwhal_evan
Apr 27th, 2009
01:37:45 AM
Year One and Funny People will bomb
by UnApatowzing
Apr 27th, 2009
01:39:04 AM
Hey i know of this good director that would be perfect for this!
by dailysportspages
Apr 27th, 2009
01:39:51 AM
Shit, is Hollywood THAT desperate?
by lockesbrokenleg
Apr 27th, 2009
01:43:16 AM
Existenz was the updated remake.
by emjoi_gently
Apr 27th, 2009
01:50:12 AM
Are you f'ing j'ing me?
by billypilgrimisunstuck
Apr 27th, 2009
01:54:39 AM
Coming soon.....
by the zapper
Apr 27th, 2009
01:57:05 AM
Now that's a remake I can't argue with!
by prunkhaft
Apr 27th, 2009
01:58:06 AM
Hmm...so we can't have a film of 'Bioshock'...
by BiggusDickus
Apr 27th, 2009
02:05:09 AM
prunkhaft = plant
by Motoko Kusanagi
Apr 27th, 2009
02:06:28 AM
ProziumJunkie you make me laugh
by Auriellis
Apr 27th, 2009
02:06:54 AM
@ the zapper
by ugh
Apr 27th, 2009
02:09:29 AM
If Hollywood is so desperate to remake 80s toss...
by BiggusDickus
Apr 27th, 2009
02:09:54 AM
Just have him write Ring 3
by comedian_x
Apr 27th, 2009
02:11:02 AM
Motoko...
by BiggusDickus
Apr 27th, 2009
02:16:31 AM
COMING SOON!
by BiggusDickus
Apr 27th, 2009
02:29:27 AM
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE IT PG13
by alucardvsdracula
Apr 27th, 2009
02:31:00 AM
prunkhaft...
by Ogmios_the_Eloquent
Apr 27th, 2009
02:36:11 AM
Children - EMF
by bubcus
Apr 27th, 2009
02:37:01 AM
in 5 to 10 years
by Ogmios_the_Eloquent
Apr 27th, 2009
02:37:49 AM
Is this still going to involve video tapes?
by MenLeavingFactory1903
Apr 27th, 2009
02:39:25 AM
This is some Hollywood bullshit!
by MaxDembo1
Apr 27th, 2009
02:44:36 AM
Shia LaBeouf is Max Renn!
by BatPsycho
Apr 27th, 2009
02:48:30 AM
This remake thing is starting to become a joke.
by hallmitchell
Apr 27th, 2009
02:51:34 AM
Love the original
by dastickboy
Apr 27th, 2009
02:55:34 AM
How do you remake Videodrome?
by Continentalop
Apr 27th, 2009
02:56:07 AM
LET THE CG-FEST BEGIN!
by Orionsangels
Apr 27th, 2009
02:57:00 AM
Just like Josh Swaney doesn't need a +1
by Continentalop
Apr 27th, 2009
02:57:08 AM
They're planning...
by NixEclips
Apr 27th, 2009
03:07:47 AM
Or maybe Hollywood is being too much like Swaney...
by Auriellis
Apr 27th, 2009
03:09:33 AM
Fucking terrible idea.
by a goonie
Apr 27th, 2009
03:41:21 AM
ProziumJunkie is right...
by billyhitchcock
Apr 27th, 2009
03:44:00 AM
LONG LIVE THE NEW MEDIA
by sanzaru
Apr 27th, 2009
03:45:13 AM
I can't see this turning out good
by KubrickFan69
Apr 27th, 2009
03:49:38 AM
YouTubedrome
by CENOBITE
Apr 27th, 2009
03:50:07 AM
Uh, Hollywood you can...
by Roketopunch
Apr 27th, 2009
04:07:07 AM
Cast Martin Lawrence!
by MenLeavingFactory1903
Apr 27th, 2009
04:18:43 AM
Christ on a fucking moped
by Lost Jarv
Apr 27th, 2009
04:20:38 AM
they should name it DVD-DROME
by Gorgomel
Apr 27th, 2009
04:29:20 AM
just release VIDEODROME uncensored on blu-ray
by Gorgomel
Apr 27th, 2009
04:30:52 AM
How many remakes are we going to hear about today?
by cant_stop_yawning
Apr 27th, 2009
04:31:09 AM
When . . .
by JohnDrake
Apr 27th, 2009
05:11:50 AM
I hear Gaspar Noe is remaking Passion of the Christ.
by Knuckleduster
Apr 27th, 2009
05:16:19 AM
Everytime someone complained about a remake here
by MorpheusTheSandman
Apr 27th, 2009
05:16:30 AM
Videodrome is impossible to remake...
by D o o d
Apr 27th, 2009
05:18:57 AM
What's the point?
by MontyPigeon
Apr 27th, 2009
05:37:56 AM
Fuck this, remake JOYSTICKS (1983)!
by ricarleite2
Apr 27th, 2009
05:45:08 AM
freaked my shit right out
by TheExterminator
Apr 27th, 2009
06:01:54 AM
fucking retarded and utterly pointless
by quantize
Apr 27th, 2009
06:08:03 AM
Waste of Time
by EliteStance
Apr 27th, 2009
06:42:46 AM
"Is there nudity in it?"
by tonagan
Apr 27th, 2009
07:08:47 AM
remakes
by taismaul
Apr 27th, 2009
07:13:49 AM
i agree with emjoi
by filmcoyote
Apr 27th, 2009
07:45:08 AM
Don't fuck with The Master's work.
by Stuntcock Mike
Apr 27th, 2009
07:47:48 AM
Anyone who involved this deserves swine flu...
by genro
Apr 27th, 2009
07:49:53 AM
Rob Schneider is...
by Cpt. Arnoldo
Apr 27th, 2009
08:01:20 AM
Where's The Scanners Remake?
by adiehardfanwithalethalweapon
Apr 27th, 2009
08:14:27 AM
emjoi_gently
by RipVanMarlowe
Apr 27th, 2009
08:17:24 AM
Unless they have Cronenberg remake his own
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
Apr 27th, 2009
08:19:00 AM
If this ever does make it before cameras
by Samuel Fulmer
Apr 27th, 2009
08:29:34 AM
As mentioned by others above
by Samuel Fulmer
Apr 27th, 2009
08:31:17 AM
Death to Videodrome remakes
by harrys_site_sucks
Apr 27th, 2009
08:33:42 AM
Cronenberg's ViggoDrome in 3-D
by Samuel Fulmer
Apr 27th, 2009
08:35:49 AM
Paul Haggis to remake Cronenberg's Crash
by Samuel Fulmer
Apr 27th, 2009
08:36:18 AM
Dead Ringers remake
by Samuel Fulmer
Apr 27th, 2009
08:36:53 AM
M. Butterfly remake
by Samuel Fulmer
Apr 27th, 2009
08:37:19 AM
prunkhaft
by Knobules
Apr 27th, 2009
08:45:00 AM
fuck it...
by theycallmemrtibbs
Apr 27th, 2009
08:46:52 AM
Videodrome Criterion DVD is great
by Beezbo
Apr 27th, 2009
08:49:20 AM
This Will Be So Bad
by Crow3711
Apr 27th, 2009
08:50:28 AM
"David Cronenberg's VIDEODROME is as classic
by thegreatwhatzit
Apr 27th, 2009
08:52:18 AM
They SHOULD do a prequel to Jaws.....
by theycallmemrtibbs
Apr 27th, 2009
08:53:18 AM
Fleshy VHS Tape
by tatoosh
Apr 27th, 2009
08:54:05 AM
Snuff-Tube
by tatoosh
Apr 27th, 2009
08:56:36 AM
HOLODECKDRONE
by alice 13
Apr 27th, 2009
09:10:46 AM
The only way this might possibly work...
by WS
Apr 27th, 2009
09:14:42 AM
God, it must be frustrating to be someone with an idea
by Movietool
Apr 27th, 2009
09:21:47 AM
As long as it has the giant stomach vagina...
by Alkeoholic77
Apr 27th, 2009
09:31:40 AM
THEGREATWHATZIT
by Nerdboy1423
Apr 27th, 2009
09:35:22 AM
STOP REMAKES NOW!!!!
by HerbWestAustin
Apr 27th, 2009
09:38:18 AM
Bad Idea
by Cobbio
Apr 27th, 2009
09:39:03 AM
Wow What a total coincedence ..I watched the Criterion version
by mr dark
Apr 27th, 2009
09:43:22 AM
I LOVE IT...
by johnnyrandom
Apr 27th, 2009
09:44:28 AM
DUMB FUCKS
by The Duke of New York
Apr 27th, 2009
09:50:09 AM
Worst. Idea. Ever.
by Pdorwick
Apr 27th, 2009
09:50:31 AM
You guys should bitch more about remakes
by slone13
Apr 27th, 2009
09:52:59 AM
Where's the Naked Lunch remake??
by skimn
Apr 27th, 2009
09:58:58 AM
"Death to Videodrome! Long live the New Flesh!" .
by Leafar the Lost
Apr 27th, 2009
10:03:51 AM
That Criterion
by Cpt. Arnoldo
Apr 27th, 2009
10:34:42 AM
This one is the One Cronenberg Film that could never be improved
by Adrian Marcato
Apr 27th, 2009
10:57:41 AM
THERE'S NO FUCKING WAY
by TheFlypaper
Apr 27th, 2009
11:08:48 AM
Bad idea
by BenBraddock
Apr 27th, 2009
11:10:08 AM
if, and only IF, this goes through
by skimn
Apr 27th, 2009
11:15:53 AM
Besides, everybody knows that The New Flesh...
by Royston Lodge
Apr 27th, 2009
11:16:52 AM
Isn't the guy doing the voice-over...
by xXxJamiexXx
Apr 27th, 2009
11:21:55 AM
Didn't movies used to mean something?
by FleshMachine
Apr 27th, 2009
11:24:16 AM
Hey Hollywood..Just RE-Release Films!!!
by FleshMachine
Apr 27th, 2009
11:26:20 AM
Rod Serling the last man with integrity.....
by rben
Apr 27th, 2009
11:38:09 AM
Hollywood Idiocracy
by christian66
Apr 27th, 2009
11:39:57 AM
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
by LaserPants
Apr 27th, 2009
11:49:40 AM
What I love about Videodrome
by m_reporter
Apr 27th, 2009
11:59:15 AM
Long Live The New Flesh
by skimn
Apr 27th, 2009
12:08:22 PM
ENANTIODROME
by sanzaru
Apr 27th, 2009
12:31:12 PM
ANOTHER proposed remake of a Cronenberg film?
by TurdontheRun
Apr 27th, 2009
12:51:30 PM
No one can replace Debbie Harry
by Chuck_Chuckwalla
Apr 27th, 2009
12:53:13 PM
slone13
by shodan6672
Apr 27th, 2009
12:53:14 PM
BOYCOTT
by britney spears rusted clit ring
Apr 27th, 2009
12:55:20 PM
Twitterdrome
by GeneralJackCosmo
Apr 27th, 2009
01:15:35 PM
No thanks. But the Scanners remake...
by Zeegloo
Apr 27th, 2009
01:20:30 PM
I hate to be an 'ol copy & paster, but the Criterion disc featur
by skimn
Apr 27th, 2009
01:22:34 PM
"videodrome" wasn't that good!
by ufoclub1977
Apr 27th, 2009
01:37:11 PM
shodan6672
by slone13
Apr 27th, 2009
01:48:21 PM
Just replace the Beta tapes with HD-DVD's
by thelordofhell
Apr 27th, 2009
01:57:23 PM
M_REPORTER
by TheFlypaper
Apr 27th, 2009
02:04:08 PM
ufoclub
by skimn
Apr 27th, 2009
02:09:44 PM
EASTERN PROMISES REMAKE CONFIRMED
by georgecauldron
Apr 27th, 2009
02:15:42 PM
"See you in Pittsburgh"
by DanielKurland
Apr 27th, 2009
02:17:56 PM
rabid for a remake
by Basehead
Apr 27th, 2009
02:19:08 PM
Max Hardcore
by DdHed
Apr 27th, 2009
02:25:18 PM
Whats next? Eraserhead?
by knowthyself
Apr 27th, 2009
02:55:14 PM
prunkhaft sounds like a...
by MainMan2001
Apr 27th, 2009
02:56:11 PM
Nerdboy, take a chill pill
by thegreatwhatzit
Apr 27th, 2009
02:57:12 PM
Obsessed Remake Confirmed
by Stabby
Apr 27th, 2009
03:11:56 PM
Videodrome starring Gary Busey
by Six Demon Bag
Apr 27th, 2009
03:11:59 PM
Confirmed--Studio execs walking thru video stores
by Six Demon Bag
Apr 27th, 2009
03:13:51 PM
Videodrome makes no sense today
by Stabby
Apr 27th, 2009
03:18:28 PM
I bet this remake never gets made...
by DrBrianOblivion
Apr 27th, 2009
03:29:03 PM
We need a Spacecamp remake
by lockesbrokenleg
Apr 27th, 2009
03:31:01 PM
Does anyone have a list of unsuccessful remakes?
by Stabby
Apr 27th, 2009
03:35:15 PM
I have changed my mind - I can see how a Videodrome remake could
by Continentalop
Apr 27th, 2009
03:43:21 PM
Posted to early
by Continentalop
Apr 27th, 2009
03:45:00 PM
Financial failure remakes of the 2000's
by Samuel Fulmer
Apr 27th, 2009
04:17:59 PM
W–w-what?!
by blakindigo
Apr 27th, 2009
04:20:26 PM
The only remakes of recent years I like
by Samuel Fulmer
Apr 27th, 2009
04:20:28 PM
One remake rule of thumb
by Samuel Fulmer
Apr 27th, 2009
04:22:06 PM
Hollywood marketing departments stink
by Samuel Fulmer
Apr 27th, 2009
04:25:30 PM
Continentalop
by blakindigo
Apr 27th, 2009
04:31:40 PM
Harry's parents divorce was his fault
by jah_kingdom
Apr 27th, 2009
04:53:25 PM
Call it Videodome, set it in the fall of 2007
by skimn
Apr 27th, 2009
05:06:29 PM
Where's the Deadly Friend remake?
by ebonic_plague
Apr 27th, 2009
05:33:34 PM
blakindigo
by Continentalop
Apr 27th, 2009
05:33:48 PM
GREAT!
by darthwaz1
Apr 27th, 2009
05:35:24 PM
Also Dawn of the Dead remake
by Continentalop
Apr 27th, 2009
05:40:03 PM
well said continentalop
by DrBrianOblivion
Apr 27th, 2009
05:40:40 PM
BiggusDickus
by hst666
Apr 27th, 2009
05:53:30 PM
Thanks doctor
by Continentalop
Apr 27th, 2009
05:53:41 PM
If you thought Prunkhaft was serious
by hst666
Apr 27th, 2009
05:54:48 PM
just plain wrong
by frank cotton
Apr 27th, 2009
05:56:33 PM
Digital-Copy-Drome?
by hst666
Apr 27th, 2009
06:00:59 PM
Bit-Torrent-Drome?
by hst666
Apr 27th, 2009
06:01:29 PM
I love the film's ending.
by Toilet_Terror
Apr 27th, 2009
06:02:00 PM
Unfortunately i wish this forum didn't exist
by DrBrianOblivion
Apr 27th, 2009
06:26:06 PM
Who cares? Bring it on.
by RICHARD_GERE_RAPED_MY_GERBIL
Apr 27th, 2009
06:58:34 PM
Man
by Series7
Apr 27th, 2009
07:28:20 PM
sloane13
by DrMorbius
Apr 27th, 2009
07:50:20 PM
FleshMachine
by the_shogun_gunslinger
Apr 27th, 2009
08:31:32 PM
RICHARD_GERE_RAPED_MY_GERBIL
by the_shogun_gunslinger
Apr 27th, 2009
08:36:39 PM
Puhlease! Scanners was mind-blowing, Videodrome should have been
by Citizen Sane
Apr 27th, 2009
09:02:26 PM
Watch this a few weeks ago.
by OutlawsDelejos
Apr 27th, 2009
09:02:59 PM
Dark Horizons...
by SimonDunkle
Apr 27th, 2009
09:07:21 PM
Thats funny if thats true Simondunkie...
by DrBrianOblivion
Apr 27th, 2009
09:26:43 PM
It's almost like as a producer...
by DrBrianOblivion
Apr 27th, 2009
09:33:10 PM
In the past people would be fucking...
by DrBrianOblivion
Apr 27th, 2009
09:45:17 PM
Hopefully this means
by Series7
Apr 27th, 2009
10:16:23 PM
Does anyone else fear.....
by the zapper
Apr 27th, 2009
10:58:04 PM
dreamscape features Mrs Spielberg tits!
by Gorgomel
Apr 28th, 2009
01:28:59 AM
remake?
by DarthSaul666
Apr 28th, 2009
01:56:18 AM
Like the sound of a canned ham dropped from a great height...
by SFLogicNinja
Apr 28th, 2009
02:40:00 AM
The hand coming out of the TV scared the shit out of me
by Pissed Off And Bitter
Apr 28th, 2009
02:48:56 AM
What's up with all these remakes?
by SunTzu77
Apr 28th, 2009
05:12:10 AM
I watched this as a young teen and it blew my mind
by Col. Tigh-Fighter
Apr 28th, 2009
06:34:31 AM
AINTITPLUSONE.COM
by CHRISTIAN_BALE_TRASHED_MY_LIGH TS
Apr 28th, 2009
07:23:16 AM
Remake Of Videodrome Remake Confimred!
by LaserPants
Apr 28th, 2009
07:48:07 AM
THEY THINK THEY CAN DO THIS BETTER?
by Mullah Omar
Apr 28th, 2009
11:13:33 AM
Re: Studios Re-Releasing FIlms...money in the bank
by FleshMachine
Apr 28th, 2009
11:38:12 AM
that would be awesome fleshmachine
by DrBrianOblivion
Apr 28th, 2009
12:14:12 PM
Can't We Just Get Beyond Videodrome
by Blast_Hardcheese
Apr 28th, 2009
04:20:54 PM
remake this and die!!
by daddyfatnads
Apr 28th, 2009
04:26:20 PM
I Can't Believe this Shit
by bottombrick
Apr 28th, 2009
09:05:52 PM
I got a great idea for the remake....
by Pouchstalker
Apr 29th, 2009
12:00:13 AM
eXistenz
by Henry Fool
Apr 29th, 2009
12:25:59 AM

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