Firstshowing.net have got a confirmed report from 20th Century Fox that a remake of the science fiction classic The Day The Earth Stood Still is in the works for a release sometime next year.
No cast or director are attached as of yet, but a release of May 9th is being touted around.
Man, do we really need a remake of this classic?
The Robert Wise original is great and a perfect product of the 1950’s time period that it was produced under. Sure a remake could work, but if Steven Spielberg couldn’t even make a great War of the Worlds movie (although I did like it quite a bit) then what hope do we have for this?
source – firstshowing, cinematical
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[...] The announcement two months ago that a remake of the 1950’s classic science fiction movie The Day The Earth Stood Still was in the works over at Fox for a release next year came completely out of the blue, and I was hoping it was just a bit of nonsense rumor that was floating about. [...]