The new flesh will live again in Universal Pictures remake of David Cronenberg’s 1983 mind-warping thriller Videodrome.
Commercials helmer Adam Berg has been signed up to direct the Erhen Kruger scripted revamp. The original movie starred James Woods as a cable television programmer who is drawn into a mystery involving a pirate TV station seemingly featuring snuff movies.
The remake will ‘update’ the concept, turning it into more of a big budget action thriller featuring nanotech. Berg won the Film Grand Prix at the Cannes International Advertising Festival. Kruger has previously written the screenplays for Scream 3 (2000) and the Philip K. Dick inspired Impostor (2001), as well as two Transformers movies.
Reblogged this on genrerama and commented:
Is this idea simply absolutely wrong from the start? Really? Or could it become something like the present TOTAL RECALL reinvention?
Posted by JAMES E PARSONS | August 24, 2012, 11:49 amErr, sounds like they are going to ruin another great film with blockbuster, money-making, please the widest audience possible, tactics. We’ll have to see.
Posted by Parlor of Horror | August 25, 2012, 6:11 pm