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Published on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 3:16pm |
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THE STEPFATHER remake gets... well, a stepfather! And a doomed family as well!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I've never really watched NIP/TUCK... I've seen an episode or two, but it didn't really hook me. So I don't know if it's good news or bad news that NIP/TUCK's Dylan Walsh is now cast as the titular Stepfather in the remake coming from Screengems.
Sela Ward is playing the clueless mother and Penn Badgley is playing the son... a strange bit of casting since a quick jump to IMDB shows that he certainly can't be playing a kid... so it'll be the late-teens/early 20s son that has to figure out that his new stepfather is a psycho. Adrianne Palicki is in talks to play the son's girlfriend.
They say they're aiming for a more Hitchcock style thriller than a splatterfest, but the original wasn't what I'd call a gore-heavy film. It was definitely more about the creepy father... the bomb under the table that we know can and will go off at any time.
I don't know. I'm not super attached to the original, but I like it enough to not be happy to see a lame remake come out. Hopefully this one will surpass my expectations.
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Reader Talkback
Walsh is ok by Bloo | Nov 12th, 2007 02:51:38 PM | Sounds good....first? by sarahlizard | Nov 12th, 2007 02:52:32 PM | Third by Napoleon Park | Nov 12th, 2007 02:57:55 PM | I want a remake by Napoleon Park | Nov 12th, 2007 03:00:01 PM | They should recast Locke. by Barry Egan | Nov 12th, 2007 03:05:29 PM | My step-father was an asshole.
They should cast him. by Mike_D | Nov 12th, 2007 03:07:06 PM | Love the original by TheNorthlander | Nov 12th, 2007 03:07:56 PM | I love the original too by Brendon | Nov 12th, 2007 03:16:20 PM | Walsh is underrated as an
actor by Boondock Devil | Nov 12th, 2007 03:29:03 PM | O'QUINN as THE STEPGRANDFATHER by Mullah Omar | Nov 12th, 2007 04:31:15 PM | Great casting with Walsh by MaxCalifornia. | Nov 12th, 2007 05:02:51 PM | I want to see the Birth of a
Nation remake. by Nate Champion | Nov 12th, 2007 05:07:53 PM | I DO NOT SUPPORT THE REMAKE OF
THIS ONE. by Pennsy | Nov 12th, 2007 05:13:22 PM | remake of Birth Of a Nation?
wow by liljuniorbrown | Nov 12th, 2007 05:49:30 PM | Ask Walsh why they can't say
"fuck" and show tits on FX MA
shows by MrMysteryGuest | Nov 12th, 2007 07:38:20 PM | O'Quinn is the stepfather by INWOsuxRED | Nov 12th, 2007 09:45:27 PM | I've heard Will Smith's son
will play the Stepfather by TheNorthlander | Nov 12th, 2007 09:58:50 PM | Sela Ward = hottest 50+ woman
in Hollywood by Osmosis Jones | Nov 12th, 2007 10:03:27 PM | is it just me or is horror
just bull... by theonecalledshoe | Nov 13th, 2007 02:30:27 AM | If Dylan Walsh can survive
Congo by skimn | Nov 13th, 2007 12:28:19 PM | In terms of actor...good news.
In terms of another
unnecessary by StovetopStuffin' | Nov 13th, 2007 03:34:44 PM | Yes, theonecalledshoe... by GreyGeek | Nov 14th, 2007 05:20:11 AM | People look at me funny by Napoleon Park | Nov 15th, 2007 08:22:11 AM |
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