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Here Comes A Remake Of Hitchcock's SUSPICION!!
Merrick here...
Paramount's looking to "adapt" (i.e. "remake") remake SUSPICION.
SUSPICION was an Alfred Hitchock-directed adaptation of Francis Iles' 1932 novel BEFORE THE FACT, which hit screens in 1941. Joan Fontaine won an Oscar for her appearance in that film.
When I first read Variety's piece on the matter, I'd somehow gleaned that they were evidently re-adapting Iles' progenitor novel, a la what the Coens did with TRUE GRIT. On closer inspection of the piece, sounds like they'll primarily be pulling directly from the Hitchcok film instead.
The new version of SUSPICION will be headed-up by Veena Sud, a writer / Executive Producer on AMC's THE KILLING. She held the same positions on CBS's COLD CASE.
We recently learned that REBECCA - another novel-to-screen adaptation by Hitchcok was also being dusted off for a return to the big screen (details HERE). In that instance, however, it does sound like they'll primarily be pulling from Daphne Du Maurier's literary source material instead of Hitchcock's 1940 bigscreenificvation.
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thou shalt not touch Hitchcock
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from Psycho? That trainwreck
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Feb. 14, 2012, 11:36 a.m. CST
You either got huge balls or no brains attempting a Hitchcock remake.
by fustfick
Seriously. It amazes me that any director would be willing to remake a Hitchcock film. That's just asking to get the shit kicked out of you. Good luck.
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Where are Hollywood's real writers?
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movies based on youtube clips and remakes of Hitchcock...good god, what valentines day presents....
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Feb. 14, 2012, 11:49 a.m. CST
Great idea....coz Psycho was a really good remake!...Have a bit of self respect hollywood and do something new fuknutz!
by cameron
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I hope he's not in this.
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Feb. 14, 2012, 11:56 a.m. CST
...the worst thing about all these lazy remakes of classics is...
by carlotta_valdes
...that it completely screws up all film conversations with newbies. Future conversation: "Oh yeah I saw Citizen Kane last year...I didn't like it very much". That's because you watched the 2013 shit version newbie! Film history is already convoluted with poor ORIGINAL material (subjective I know), these remakes just compound the problem for younger film goers looking to expand their vocabulary. You may say "just don't talk to newbies about film"...but it's too important to keep the classics alive 'in and of' themselves. I love being turned on to original works I've never seen...and feel a responsibility to do the same for others. Hollywood please leave the classics alone. Beware film execs...you mess with Vertigo an I'm coming with my shotgun to clean up yer lazy, stinkin, unoriginal, money grubbin town!
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it was a conscious attempt at cinematic masturbation, and worked beautifully. People expecting more left unsatisfied, but it's not the film's fault. Quit looking for quiche at McDonald's. Didn't the studio change the end of Suspicion to make Grant innocent? Wasn't he really a murderous bastard? I wonder what ending the new film will go with (he asked rhetorically)?
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Feb. 14, 2012, 12:13 p.m. CST
I thought I remember hearing Affleck & Paltrow were attached to a remake of this back when they were dating
by TheSeeker7
or, maybe it was even still after they split up. anyone... ?
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Someone above asked where all the real writers are, and I'd respond that many of them are working real jobs, unable to get their scripts or even their ideas read. It's pretty common knowledge that the top ten or so agencies won't read a script, even a letter, from "unsolicited" sources. Which means that unless your dad plays golf with some asshole who greenlights movies, you're going to have to redefine the concept of tenacity in order to ever break through. It is possible, but to pretend that "the talent always rises to the top" is fallacy, and is generally perpetuated by fuckwits who were handed their gig. I know a kid who went to summer camp with a well-known actor. Anyway, about five years ago this kid had a script optioned by a major studio specifically because his friend, the actor, made it happen. Anyway, this kid hasn't written anything since... he's not even a writer! There are countless talented writers out there who will write until they die regardless of whether they're ever read, who would saw their own legs off for that kind of look, and they can't even get their synopses read. The system is broken. And that doesn't even account for all the other arbitrary elimination processes that these priveliged assholes use to piss on real talent. "You called my office? I won't read your script."... "You used Scriptblaster to send out queries? I won't read your script."... "You don't have perky tits and a nice ass? I won't read your script." And lets not kid ourselves about who's shooting you down. Many (and I mean dozens) of agencies don't even "hire," as all their junior positions are filled annually by kids who knew someone in order to get there. Rich honkies and Jews doing favors for other rich honkies and Jews. And I'm a total honk. Nepotism is fine and good in business, where training tends to be everything, but it will destroy creativity just as it is presently destroying movies. The "real" talented writers simply don't have the connections to get in, nor do they have the time it takes to try. If you're reading this and you're a writer, you can't just give up. And if you're a real writer, you won't give up. But unlike some of your luckier peers, "getting through the door" is a full time job in and of itself, and your chances are only hindered by real-world things like a wife, kids, a house, a job, etc. It's a shitty ultimatum: do what you were born to do at the expense of everything else. But it's where we're at. FUCK Hollywood.
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Feb. 14, 2012, 12:39 p.m. CST
When will the rape and pillage of classic cinema end???
by Tikidonkeypunch
Cant you asshole producers be happy throwing away money at something that CAN be improved. Michael Bay to direct Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
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the keys to success are kept on a keyring called neoptism and locked in a drawer labeled 'who you know'
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That and the Phantom Menace 3D!
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Don't write scripts write a book. It's way easier to get a book published than getting a script sold. That's just a fact. Hollywood has entered a pretty fucked up stage... They don't want to take chances. People are stingy with money these days. People are also stupid as a bag of nails. So they spend their money on trash... So Hollywood just continues to make it. Don't pay for remakes. Don't pay for trash and hopefully good films will make a come back... ALSO don't ignore good films when they come out: Hugo, The Artist, etc.
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I really hope this falls out of production....who could POSSIBLY play the Cary Grant part???
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Feb. 14, 2012, 1:12 p.m. CST
The only role in modern cinema that has reminded me of a Hitchcock/Cary Grant vibe
by Lucius Woodhouse
George Clooney. The American. Please don't fuck with Suspicion.
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The woman who destroyed the American remake of The Killing is doing this? Does this mean at the end of the movie, we won't find out if the husband is a killer or not?
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I know it came out in 1941 but that's no reason to assume everyone has seen it and openly discuss the ending!
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Like Hitchcock wanted and the studio vetoed?
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Nice handle.
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You knew Hollywood was bound to go back to the Hitchcock vault, because they're tactless necrophiliacs, so we should just be happy they're sticking to the more obscure Hitchcock flicks for now. Maybe they learned their lesson with Gus Van Sant's "Psycho" cock-up. Weren't there rumors of "Rear Window" and "Strangers on a Train" updates recently? Let's just give thanks those have stayed buried.
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We know he killed Beaky. The movie doesn't even try to excuse that. And he only *claimed* that he was planning to kill himself at the end instead of Lina. And Lina believed him. But that doesn't make it true. He lied to her throughout the entire movie.
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The only legitimate reason for a remake is if the writer/director/producer has a fresh, original take on the material, a la Carpenter's THE THING or Cronenberg's THE FLY. If this is just a modernization of Hitch . . . Sigh.
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Feb. 14, 2012, 4:06 p.m. CST
Yep, now they're gonna remake all of Hitchcock's movies. Well, to be fair, they've already done a couple of Hitchcock remakes. But now they're remake the rest.
by Mr. Pricklepants
What legendary director is next?
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Why redo old ones that have already been done by masters like Hitchcock? This makes me so . . . so sleepy . . . already nodding off as I write this . . . said it too many times before . . . Rage against the . . . rage against the dying of the . . . ZZZZZZZ
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If Shia gets the Johnny role I'm gonna kill somebody.
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Is this remake really necessary?..
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...and discussion appropriate right?
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Thou shalt not remake Hitchcock
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Feb. 14, 2012, 7:32 p.m. CST
The remake of Hitchcock's 'Dial M for Murder' – 'A Perfect Murder' with Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Viggo Mortensen – is a GREAT film!
by Andy Williamson
FACT!
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It was Throw Momma from the Train
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Now that is a remake I could get behind. Bi-plane chasing bad-assery at its best.
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Didn't Shia LeBeowulf already do that?
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It wisely just took the basic idea of Dial "M" and spun off in its own compelling direction. I'm not totally against remaking Hitch's more modest efforts (which Suspicion is...a good film, not one of his untouchable classics). Hell, Psycho II is a more-than-respectable sequel to one of Hitch's masterpieces. That said (hee), if anyone fucks with North By Northwest or Vertigo, heads will roll.
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Feb. 14, 2012, 10:35 p.m. CST
There was a made-for-TV remake of Rear Window around 1998
by Nasty In The Pasty
It featured a post-accident Christopher Reeve in the Jimmy Stewart role and Daryl Hannah in the Grace Kelly role. I never saw it.
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Feb. 15, 2012, 3:57 a.m. CST
Suspicion was already semi-remade with Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer
by Margot Tenenbaum
They both have the same gimmicks of casting a supremely likeable leading man as a possible murderer & turning the leading lady into a paranoid mess.
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It was Robert Zemeckis
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I was having an insomniac episode and I couldn't be bothered to check imdb. thx.
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