WHAT WORKS, WHAT SUCKS AND WHAT’S COMING FOR 11 HORROR REMAKES!

Source : scifiwire.com

According to Hollywood’s logic, anything worth doing is worth doing over again—especially if people remember you did it the first time.

Sequels notwithstanding, the studios are churning out one remake, reboot or “re-imagining” after another of familiar and not-so-familiar horror movies and franchises, the latest of which is The Crazies, Breck Eisner’s update of the 1973 George Romero movie of the same name.

While the jury’s still out on A Nightmare on Elm Street—which probably qualifies as the Holy Grail of horror remakes—SCI FI Wire decided to take a closer look at some of the other classic horror films that will return to the screen in the not-so-distant future and why the originals deserve to stand on their own.

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VIDEO GAME INCURSION INTO HOLLYWOOD COULD CONTINUE WITH SPACE INVADERS

Source: LA Times

With a movie version of Missile Command essentially set up at Fox and an adaptation of Asteroids in development at Universal, it was only a matter of time before a studio decided to take on the grandfather of all video games, Space Invaders.

And now it looks like one could.

Warner Bros. is negotiating to acquire feature rights to the landmark shooter from Taito, the Japanese company that originally manufactured the game. If the rights issues all work out, the project would bring on Hollywood fixtures Mark Gordon, Jason Blum and Guymon Casady as producers.

Gordon is a film veteran with experience at the big-budget art house (“Saving Private Ryan”) as well as the big-budget commercial (“The Day After Tomorrow”). Blum is best known for producing horror breakout “Paranormal Activity,” while Casady is a manager-producer with a slew of high-profile clients.

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JAMES CAMERON IS LOOKING FOR A FANTASTIC DIRECTOR

Source : Latino Review

James Cameron has finished his script for a remake of the classic science fiction fantasy film Fantastic Voyage.

I haven’t seen the original Fantastic Voyage since I was a kid so I have no idea what could be done for the remake. I’ll have to revisit it. ScifiWire has more on the story:

James Cameron said that the script for his proposed remake of the classic 1960s medical sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage is done and he is now looking for someone to direct.

“Fantastic Voyage, we’re looking for a director,” Cameron said in a group interview Sunday in Century City, Calif., at the Visual Effects Society Awards. “Haven’t set one yet.” (Writers who have had a hand in drafting the script include Shane Salerno and Cormac and Marianne Wibberley.)

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SAM WORTHINGTON , NEW FACE OF SCIFI/FANTASY FILM: WITH TERMINATOR, AVATAR, AND  CLASH OF THE TITANS, A NEW STAR RISES

Source: scififantasyfilms.suite101.com

There’s no doubt Sam Worthington is one of Hollywood’s hottest stars. With Clash of the Titans to be released April 2, 2010, those who still don’t know him soon will.