Although the 70’s produced so many great films that surprisingly hold up better today than most movies from the 80’s, there are some gems from that decade I have yet to see.
One of those gems is Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs from 1971. That’s right, that classic and controversial thriller starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George has somehow managed to evade my cinema watching all these years.
The Hollywood Reporter through Bloody Disgusting are reporting that director Rod Lurie is on board to helm a remake of the movie for Screen Gems, with Reed Steiner writing the screenplay.
Get this little tidbit…. the remake will be set in the U.S. and presumeably will focus on an English couple? The original was set around a young American couple who moved to Cornwall in the U.K. to escape the crime and violence in America.
Seriously has the world gone mad?
source – bloody disgusting, the hollywood reporter
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I love Straw Dogs, Peckinpah is a great director. I actually got to see Staw Dogs on the big screen a few years back. It’s pretty disturbing, especially when Susan George is raped, the violence is raw and brutal. Dustin Hoffman as a man driven over the edge to violence as he stands for his principals and beliefs was awesome. There’s no need for a remake, this film still holds up today. And setting it the U.S. they’re probably going to have more of a backwoods kind of folks attacking and make it some piece of horror crap. Ugh, there’s a lot of movies that should never be remade and this, in my opinion is one of them. yup.
I shall have to hunt out a copy of it, I’ve only ever heard good things about it.