Posted by Matt Holmes. Last modified on February 22nd, 2007 at 10:03am

The Day The Earth Stood Still remake in the works

day-earth-stood-still.jpgFirstshowing.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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Categories: Movie News, The-Day-The-Earth-Stood-Still

2 Comments »

  1. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

    Comment by Ray | February 23, 2007

  2. [...] 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. [...]

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