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Has The FRIGHT NIGHT Remake Found Its Director??
Merrick here...
L.A. TImes is saying the FRIGHT NIGHT remake is close to landing a director.
A sweepstakes that included at least three directors appears to be coming to a close, with Craig Gillespie the man who will likely sit behind the camera. Sources say that after the studio met with and contemplated a number of directors, the parties on Friday began entering negotiations for Gillespie to take the reins.
...says L.A. Times HERE.
If you're not familiar with Gillespie's work, he recently brought us LARS AND THE REAL GIRL, MR. WOODCOCK, and was a director/producer on Diablo Cody's Showtime series THE UNITED STATES OF TARA.
FRIGHT NIGHT is being written by Marti Noxon (the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER series, MAD MEN).
Very curious to see how they'll handle this new version tonally. Will they work to replicate the original's vibe?
Will it skew more towards suspense? More towards comedy? Or will it be fluffed up thanks to the success of TWILIGHT and whatnot?
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NUMERO UNO!
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lets hope not! It was nether scary or funny. and the acting was dreadful!
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It'll be yet another quickly forgettable remake. You gotta remake lame stuff w/ noble intentions, like Carpenter's Thing or Cronenberg's Fly, not stuff that was great the first time around. You're so cool, Brewster!!!!!!!
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I never understood why a thousand year old vampire was so attracted to Amanda Bearse from the original. It was freaking Marcy D'Arcy for christsake!
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If everyone here drools over the hefty chick from Paranormal Activity, you KNOW they will come to the defense of D'Arcy's knockers. I wanted to motor boat those suckers so bad . . .
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I am really torn over this. Fright Night is one of my absolute favorite vampire films. And I have been opposed to this remake, right up until a rumor saying that the new version will be about a kid, loving the original Fright Night, and seeking the help of Chris Sarandon (as himself) to help fight vampires. Now that is a premise I could get excited about. But a straight remake.. naah. Although I do think the director is a really interesting choice.
And since this is now in the works - PLEASE release the orignal 2 films on Special Edition Blu-rays! NOW!! -
Whatever dude. Classic 80s horror . . .
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He was attracted to her because she resembled his long-lost love - remember the painting he had of her?
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Mar 08, 2010 10:06:34 AM CST
Ok, not the worst possible choice. But still: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
by hint_of_smegma
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No, I'd forgotten that. But still, she wore a perm and overalls through that whole movie. Jeez, the things that passed for attractive in the eighties.
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WHY? all I can say.. am hoping the zombie of Roddy McDowall will rise from his grave and devour the producers of this..
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Mar 08, 2010 10:10:05 AM CST
To clarify my position. FUCK NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
by hint_of_smegma
Yeah he's a good director - Lars is a great flick. But no-one should be doing this. Fright Night is untouchable, perfect beyond any other 80's movie. It is pure joy. I for one will be attending the remake, purely to let off dozens of vile stinkbombs in the theatre to clear it. Whoever takes the roles of Jerry or Peter? Never fucking watching another film by them again, whoever it is. Fuck. This. Noise. Man.
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but why remake this? it's a classic!!! altho the Idea of Chris Sarandon playing Roddy McDowall part would be fun. get Amanda Bearse to Direct it. And it's gotta have Stephen Geoffreys in it.
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...is if they do go down the rumoured Chris Sarandon fighting Vampires as himself route. And even then, I've got my doubts. Straight remake?? I will spit blood and venom at the people walking in buying tickets. I will get a job at my local cineplex, handing out the tickets and everyone who asks for Fright Night, I will print the ticket then spit on it before handing it over with a smile. THIS ABOMINATION MUST NOT BE ALLOWED!!!!! This is Fright Night for fucks sake.
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WTF hollywood. You are pathetic.
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Mar 08, 2010 10:27:48 AM CST
Why remake greatness when they should be remaking crapfest?
by greatone3
Like "John Carpenter's Vampires"? Carpenter deserves to be repeatedly kicked in the balls for how he butchered such a compelling book by John Steakley (entitled "Vampire$", yes, with the "$" at the end). BOOK SPOILERS BELOW Catholic Church hunting down vampires - how can you screw that up? Oh yeah, completely change the awesome plot (from the vampires trying to recruit the head vampire killer to their side vs. vampires looking for some lame cross); change the Catholic Church representatives from the heroes to the villain; remove all scenes depicting Catholic/Christian powers over vampires (the scene in the Bishop's church/home, the Pope's meeting with a vampirized Crow at the end); screwing up the vampires-hiding-in-a-jail scene; adding a bloated and unnessecary Daniel Baldwin; having Crow allow a vampirized Baldwin to leave; ad nauseum.The only thing Carpenter got right was having James Wood as Crow. Didn't even get the motel massacre scene right. Idiot.
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They suck on the blood of great films past for sustenance. And with all their face lifts you could say they are buying eternal youth.
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And please don't make this movie.
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Mar 08, 2010 10:42:13 AM CST
Will the vampire still order his clothes through International M
by lou stools
...and have a homosexual relationship with his "Renfield"?
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I mean, really, who around today is as cool now as Roddy McDowell was then?
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For real....Just saw this two night ago (coincidentally). Great film. Sure it's dated but Jerry Dandridge and Billy Cole make wonderful villians. Roddy made the film for me...so who in the world would take HIS place? I like the Chris Sarandon film within a film playing himself. What if Christopher Lee was tapped for the Peter Vincent Role? Too old? Sir Lee still kicks all kinds of ass in my opinion.
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Cool, maybe this will push through a release of FN2 on DVD.
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Obviously. Or if there's a big budget, get Ian McKellen.
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"This one... is a DOOZY!" Apparently committed by an old man in a wheelchair. Whenever I hear the name "Gillespie," I will always think of Blazing Saddles.
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I like the Chris Sarandon idea mentioned above, or the others suggested in this thread. Hell, have Sarandon humming tunes from NMBC, as well.
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The see-thru shot of Bearse is nummy. Very girl-next-door. Of course, she is the girl-next-door-that-digs-the-other-girl-down-the-block. But that's OK.
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Fuck this.Just get the original out on Blu-Ray for fuck's sake.Cockends.
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Here is why some of the best remakes ever came out in the 70's and 80's: the directors had talent AND/OR had previously worked in the horror genre. Invasion of the Body Snatchers was directed by Philip Kaufman, a very talented director. The Thing was directed by John Carpenter at his peak. Night of the Living Dead had Tom Savini at the helm with Romero writing the script once again. Oh and CGI ruins everything.
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Simon Cowell in the Chris Sarandon role...
William H Macy in the Roddy MacDowell role...
They need to throw in some hottie female vampiress types and up the body count a bit too. Def keep the 'suburbia' vibe and the gore. -
that would rock pretty hard, prolly wont happen tho
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Now that was a looker.
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Sheer brilliance with Fright Night. J Geils themesong, the genius of McDowell and Sarandon. I LOVE that movie.Don't forget the kick ass soundtrack by Brad Fiedel!!Plus I want that house...the stairs in the front entry with that kick ass stained glass with sunlight shining though and a sweet basement?The idea of a quasi-realistic, ala JCVD, with Sarandon as the guy the hapless kid goes to get him to help after seeing the original movie is a clever twist on a remake. A straight remake just sounds like it couldn't possibly work....most of these types of movies are so 'lightening in a bottle' that you can never EVER come close...not even with mad budgets and the greatest directors/actors would you capture the same magic...you'd come close probably...and the results could be brilliant but the odds are slim and thus the reasons questionable...
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Sure he was Herman in Herman's Head, but come on!!!
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Why go to him to fight the vampires? William Ragsdale man!
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no words can be expressed how disgusted I am about this remake.
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Jerry Dandridge, via Chris Sarandon, is THE quintessential vampire. I can't think of a single working actor today who could pull the Dandridge character off the way Sarandon did. That motherfucker was the essense of cool.
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Mar 08, 2010 3:18:59 PM CST
I don't think there's any way this can be better than the origin
by sithmenace
I don't know what it was, but there's something in that movie that they just got right. There's nothing like sitting in the dark with a big bowl of popcorn around Halloween and putting Fright Night on. Of all of the 80' horror films, that one might be my fav. And I don't even really care for vampires.
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They should take the Chris Sarandon idea, but make it William Ragsdale, encountering real vampires, and then going to Chris Sarandon for help. So those 2 would fight the vampires. That would be ok with me. Well - then I would give it a chance at least.
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..if they want to remake a good vampire movie, how about the original Night Stalker? I loved it, but it was a tvm so I'd love to see a big screen version. Plus, the only drawback to the original was it was too short, only about 75 minutes to cram into a 90 min tv schedule.
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How in the name of all that DOES NOT SUCK do you get the woman who headed up fucking POINT PLEASANT (POINTLESS AND UNPLEASANT more like) to rewrite one of the greatest 80s comedy-horror / vampire movies EVER FUCKING MADE???
Fuck this shit. Fuck Hollywood. Fuck those bastards who ever made this happen. At this rate, I'll have to forego American movies altogether and end up watching French movies about siblings fucking each other all over the place, without Michael Bay to slo-mo them.
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Might be the only way they could save this from the sub-Platinum Dunes hell it's currently destined for. THAT is a remake idea I could get behind. But it's too original and subversive - it won't get made.
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make it stop.
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Electric Boogaloo
The original worked against all odds because of the charm of McDowell and the chemistry that happened with rest of the cast.
Remaking this is pointless.
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...with mocap and s'plosions and bright saturated colors in Imax 3D and a soundtrack by Avril Lavigne.
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Sarandon was literally the greatest screen vampire ever - coolest, most perfect performance for the genre. Fright Night as a whole was utter brilliance, a real case of lightning in a bottle. The only hope for this new movie is if Sarandon is involved and even then, let's face it - it's not going to equal the original. But if they have any sense and make it a genuinely balls to the wall, horrific non-cgi horror with Sarandon caught up battling 'real life' vamps, it could be good in it's own right. Just can't see that happening though. This will be Twilighted into emo-friendly pap and we all know it. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK.
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There I said it.
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While I do enjoy this movie and think of it as one of the better vampire flicks, it really doesn't bother me they're re-making it, like say, how they're 99.99% gonna fuck up John Carpenter's The Thing.
@Cobra--Kai: I agree, up the body count, all the while keeping and/or upping the nudity. That's really all I ask. -
How's that for a potential Peter Vincent?
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The original is a new classic of the genre. Fright Night is one film that should not be tread upon. I don't care how they approach it. This a bad idea plain and simple.
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but lost the pass
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show the climactic shot where the vampire is destroyed. And not one shot of that actor looking remotely human. Whoever he was, he couldn't have been too psyched about that.
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Mar 08, 2010 8:59:47 PM CST
Why not remake crappy movies and leave the good ones alone?
by alice cooper stalker
They always want to remake classic movies or movies that are great. They never want to remake crappy movies that could use a good work over. Where are the remakes of Stop or My Mom Will Shoot or Smokey & The Bandit 3? How about DC Cab? These are the movies that could use some help.
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This movie was fantastic. Should be in a boxed set with "House" (the Greatest American Hero movie, not the Jeeves & Wooster TV show)
Roddy really made this film.
I'd watch it right now if it was on Netflix's Video on Demand -
They're just going to wring it through the goddamn TWILIGHT machine anyway.
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I can't express this enough
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Fright Night 2 has already been released on DVD.
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Can't be ANY OTHER ACTOR if they need a recast. But I prefer the whole Chris Sarandon scenario mentioned above if I had any say.
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I like the cut of your jib. HOUSE & FRIGHT NIGHT it is, then.
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Mar 09, 2010 6:48:39 AM CST
it's your patriotic duty, to dance and look as cool as you can!
by the_crimson_king
Craig Gillespie eh? Lars and The Real Girl was good movie, I was just wondering what Craig Gillespie would do next the other day
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Mar 09, 2010 11:13:56 AM CST
Geez, the things that passed for attractive in the 80s?
by the bicycle sharer
Yes, Christie Brinkley, Paulina Porizkova, Cindy Crawford, Elle McPherson, Christy Turlington, and Kathy Ireland. Hideous. Ugh. Can't even bear to look at their ugliness.Oh, oh! And Phoebe Cates, Heather Locklear, Demi Moore, Erin Grey, Jami Gertz, Kelly LeBrock, Deborah Foreman, Kerri Green, Catherine Mary Stewart, Helen Slater, and Mia Sara. Whew! That's a fucking boatload of unattractive there.Oh and I forgot your mom! Not that she was that attractive but she'd let us stick in any hole we wanted so there's that.
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Well-taken if not well-made. That girl was NOT with the cute.
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The "hideous" Ally Sheedy. (Though I'll admit the drugs have not aged her well.)
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Lea Thompson! Whew! Talk about nasty! What *were* we thinking in the 80s?
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Which iconic horror film is NEXT on the reboot/remake/prequel/long not-awaited sequel list?
We've done Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm St. is coming... also the Vince Vaughn Psycho a bit back...
All the Iconic horror of the late 70's and early 80's... and pretty much ALL re-done for the worse.
Hey... Executives!! There are thousands of starving ORIGINAL writers out there...
But, we all know the cycle. The make bad movie cuz' enough dolts will go and see them to make a profit on a hedged bet as opposed to someone with the ball to take a chance on a new idea.
Do we have to keep rebooting horror?
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9200 you got it right ! You can't watch one and not the other. Classics ! I just don't think remaking them to today's standard visual FX will have the same awesome feeling as they did 20 years ago. I think AICN should do a thread on WHAT MOVIES SHOULD BE REMADE. Someone mentioned The Thing and I thought it was a good idea...?! I vote for Critters....yeah let's have Weta make some critters in 2011 so we can all crap our pants ! hahaha
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A lot of very cute ladies couldn't pull off the ludicrous nature of 80's fashion. Fact.
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And I say that as a wearer of some of them. At the time, not currently. I blame the coke (for the fashions, not my wearing of them). Yes, all the free-flowing, enormous mountains of coke, coke, coke, coke, coke. Sigh. Studio 54, we miss you!
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I can't blame my big hair and my enormous earrings and the leggings and the shoulder pads on drugs. I'm a proud fashion victim. Those girls did look good at the time but good looks change otherwise all men would still be dating chicks with small boobs and fat ankles.... :P
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Fright Night is the most beloved of my childhood vampire movies. Also they should get William Ragsdale to take over the Peter Vincent role.
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...The Dunwich Horror. The original wasn't bad, but it was marred by the special effects at the end. How about Count Yorga, Vampire? Leave Dr Phibes alone, but how about some blaxploitation horror. Not Blacula, but how about a redo of Blackenstein, that was a special kind of terrible.
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