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THE HOWLING: REBORN Would Like A Piece Of Your Mind!
Beaks here...
A couple of weeks ago, ShockTilYouDrop spied this poster for a proposed remake of Joe Dante's THE HOWLING at the American Film Market. Sometimes, a poster is just a poster (I still have a 1990 Cannes issue of Variety with a two-page ad for Menahem Golan's SPIDER-MAN). And sometimes, we're just not that lucky.
According to Variety, "former studio marketing exec" Joe Nimziki is set to start shooting THE HOWLING: REBORN this February. Nimziki will be working from his own screenplay (presumably based on John Sayles's original). Joel Kastelberg and Moonstone Entertainment's Etchie Stroh will produce, while Steve Lang and Bob Pringle will take exec credits (as they did on the 1981 film).
Nimziki was once the head of marketing at MGM before moving on to New Line. He ankled/was removed from that post in 2001, and, to the best of my knowledge, has been attempting to jump start his directing career ever since. According to Wikipedia, Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin named James Rebhorn's hawkish-and-imbecilic Secretary of Defense in INDEPENDENCE DAY after Nimziki 'cuz they plain didn't like him. Sounds like the next Joe Dante to me!
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He'll of course, have nothing to do with this I assume.
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figure into this? She IS the reigning queen of vampires and werewolves.One without the other (insert the sexy beast appeal of Taylor Lautner and the brooding vampire appeal of Robert Pattinson) will NOT stand!The People have spoken. A $140 million opening weekend doesn't lie... it just PUMMELS everything in its path.Welcome to the new order.
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turning his hand to writing remakes.
This has OSCAR written all over it, doesn't it? -
Soon more Buffy, more Blade, and of course we heard about Frght Night, etc.--anything that has to do with Vampires and Werewolves. You know, along those lines, it would be nice if someone would do a film series based on Michael Jackson's song and video, Thriller.
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Yeah, but then we'd have to pull Isaac Hayes out of semi-retirement, because he once did that "Thriller" homage in the first "South Park" Halloween special.The half-life of nuclear pop culture is insiduous. God forbid there is one obscure reference we can't milk for all its worth.
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so post the ad!
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It's in storage in Ohio. Someone more obsessive about this shit than me *has* to have it at the ready.It's not flashy or anything. Just a black background with something akin to the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN font.
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never seen any of em.
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One of the worst films EVER MADE.
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With the remakes, reimaginings, and sequels. Fucking sick of it!!!!!!!!!
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'nuff said.
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... in a cinema no less. I wouldn't say it sucked, and Sybil Danning's ample charms made it bearable. The closing credits should be enough to convince anyone that the film didn't take itself too seriously, so why the hell should *we*? Can't speak for the rest of the series though - Howling II is the sum total of my exposure, for good or bad.
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Variety ad stating James Cameron directing SPIDER-MAN to star Leonardo DiCaprio. Back in the day...
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As if we needed aNOTHER Spiderman movie. Kill the pretty bunny before it gives birth, Beaks! MURDER the fucker!Seriously, this remake/reimagining/prequel/sequel shit must be exterminated.
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it had the perfect amount of tits, ass and shit fuck scare moments a teenager could want, bring on the remakes!
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Why?
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Jim Carrey.
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Isn't that just the original Howling poster/DVD cover, but with the word Reborn and the name of the director added?
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Yes it is.
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That is all.
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But let's face it, it won't make any difference.
The original was brilliant, the 2nd was bizarre. Sybil Danning and Marsha A Hunt were the hottest werewolves ever, and a little known actor called CHRISTOPHER LEE! slummed it. The FX were ropey as all hell, some 80's new wave band got a lot of free exposure, and Jimmy Nail gets eaten. Bizarre. -
Let The Howling be. Make a live action Werewolf By Night already! Eddie Quist is dead. Jack Russell lives!!
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I remember reading that as well.
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Nov 23, 2009 5:15:35 AM CST
The Howling can be rebooted - the original's the only good one
by reflecto
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Seriously. Not this guy.
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Nov 23, 2009 5:25:53 AM CST
Howling 4: The Marsupials starring Barry Otto
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
was fucking awful. So was Howling 2,3,5,6 and 7. I still watched them all though......
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and i gotta say i was disappointed. takes almost an hour before anything happens and even then, there's barely anything until the last 10-15 mins. the effects were pretty good for its day but yeah, i don't get why its become such a classic/cult-classic over the years. of course a remake would probably end up looking like Cursed or something so yeah.
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...funny Sayles script..."We can't all afford to drive a Mazda..." still gets a grin from me. John Carradine, Patrick Macnee, "You can't tame what's meant to be wild..", the sex scene at the campfire with the attendant metaphor of lycanthropy as an alternative lifestyle, bunch of other stuff.
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Nov 23, 2009 8:23:13 AM CST
The werewolf-vampire battle in Howling 6 is 10 times better than
by sithdan
And the vampire and werewolf in Howling 6 looked 10 times better.
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The werewolf sex scene seemed to catch my attention lol
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... is I knew it would call for a werewolf run. I have a script I've been trying to sell for years that is a lot closer to The Howling than American Werewolf. I won't claim it would be the best, though it could definitely be the baddest. Been trying to get it to an agent, but I figure if I don' t sell it seen this time, fuck it. Entered it in some contests a few years ago, made some semi finals, but no go. At least I hope that some decent movies come out of this , The Wolf Man looks good.
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Nov 23, 2009 8:44:57 AM CST
If you must reboot/remake DONT USE SUBTITLES
by chronicallydepressedlemming
"Colon shit sub-title" is getting seriously fucking boring now. It reeks of fanfic.
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movies of all time. It is scientifically impossible to improve on it. It has action, suspense, a great storyline. Seriously, how can this be made any better?
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They just wrote "reborn" on the original poster. I hope no one got paid for that. Jesus.
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That was a god-awful piece of shit.
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...gonna be hard to pull Isaac Hayes out of semi-retirement...seeing as he died last August. I mean, I guess he could be dug up...then they wouldn't need zombie make-up...or does that 'fruity little club' shoot their members into space when they die?
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is right. The howling is the best werewolf film ever made (although American werewolf in london is also brilliant), Gingerballz you are a fucking idiot.
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I thoroughly enjoyed the original The Howling (the first transformation scene is still one of the best ever in my opinion), and I think a decent remake could be made with the right script, director, actors, etc., but the it's not enough just to have improved special effects. The tone of the original would have to be maintained, i.e. a constant feeling of dread and foreboding, with a dash of humor and eroticism thrown in.
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Agreed, THE HOWLING is my favorite Werewolf Movie ever. A perfect mix of horror, light comedy, furry sex, great cast, transformation scene, dialog, e.t.c.
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I'll like it.I want to see more of this Twilight-ee sexy monsters.I think a sexy Creature from the Black Lagoon should be next... imagine a ripped-shirtless-green-sexy Creature, instant box-office sucksess.
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In one of the sequels (or maybe even the first one) the guy was feelin up on his girl's stomach while they were in bed and I guess she was a wolf and he felt her "pouch." And he had this confused/shocked look on his face. I at this point didn't know too much about marsupials (not that I'm a kangaroo genius now) so I wondered out loud why he was so shocked. A certain older male relative half jokingly said that he's shocked that she doesn't have any hair on her privates. Which shocked the shtuff out of my 5 or so year old mind. "Girls have hair on their privates?!" I wish I grew up with more of my gender :(
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Sounds like HowlingIII: The Marsupials.
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Nov 23, 2009 2:27:19 PM CST
THE HOWLING is one of the best werewolf movies ever, but---
by violator90
the sequels pretty much killed franchise. But there was one that I did like; it was the one with a bunch of people stuck in a castle during a blizzard and one of them was the werewolf. Other than that one, all the sequels were just horrendous. If its picking up some time AFTER the original, then there might be some hope.
BUT! If its just another remake/reimagined/rehashed version, then its NOT going to work,it will be shitty. The original had one of the BEST transformations EVER! And you KNOW that any transformation nowadays will be nothing but CGI. Fucking Hollywood can't do ANYTHING! -
American Werewolf is all fine and dandy, but the Eddie Quist transformation is fucking amazing! Werewolves that are actually scary! Who'd a thunk it right? An interesting mix of characters in a weird but believable environment and the werewolves were handled just right. I'd love to see a remake, but not from some fucking hack desk jockey trying to reboot his career!
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that is all
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Nimziki did the trailer for Bram Stoker's Dracula which helped make the film a hit and did the same for Stargate. He's a talented guy and will make a decent movie with a GREAT trailer.
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I found this regarding Canon's proposed version of Spiderman as mentioned before. This is the version the sets were built for and recycled for Van Damme's Cyborg...Spiderman the Movie (A Tobe Hooper Film?) starring Scot Leva?? and Bob Hoskins as Doc Ock?http://www. cannon.org.uk /cannoncouldhave been /spiderman/main.htm
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Thank you for pointing that out. I'm surprised that no one else corrected him.
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...is a genius. In fact, you need to consolidate the three black lagoon movies into a single film. You start out with the veiled eroticism of the first film, with the creature swimming beneath the heroine before snatching her away. The creature is captured and brought to Sea World, just as in the second film, is injured and experimented on as it is in the third. And when the experiments are done, instead of a geriatric monster in a terry cloth robe, as the original third Creature movie gave us, we get a sexy hot twenty-something with just a seductive hint of the lagoon. Maybe dark green hair, or delicately webbed fingers. It would be extra dreamy.
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Joe Dante is a genius, pretty much everyone gives a memorable performance, Rob Bottin's werewolves are the scariest on screen before or since, and yet again, remaking it as PG-13 crapfest isn't going to better anyone.
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It used to look PAINFUL to transform into a wolf with those old Bottin/Baker practical makeup effects, but now all you do is sneeze, and *POOF*! You're a werewolf. Lame.
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Nov 23, 2009 11:34:31 PM CST
If Wanna See An Actual Decent Werewolf Transformation...
by grimmjow jeagerjaques
Look up the transformations from a show called Being Human on Youtube. They're not as detailed as the ones from an American Werewolf In London or The Howling, but they're the best the genre has seen since. Painful shit man...
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Howling 3 was The Marsupials and Howling 4 was The Original Nightmare it was like the first one only shit. I grew up on number 6 no wonder I'm so fucked up.
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the poster is just the poster for the original (a classic poster if ever there was one) flipped horizontally and with some awful text in the Chiller font from Microsoft word scribbled o it.
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the humour.
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