Brian De Palma isn’t capable of making good movies anymore, so studio’s are instead looking at remaking his past works to recapture some of his unique magic from the 70’s and 80’s on film.
Variety say that Fox 2000 have hired writers Brian McGreevy and Lee Shipman to scribe an contemporary reimaging of the 1976 Kirk Douglas/John Cassavates horror The Fury which was directed by Palma and based on a novel by John Farris.
New version will center on a young man with heightened kinetic powers who is abducted by the government in order to take advantage of his special gifts.
Never actually seen the original but it looks like a pretty decent thriller. Actually reminds me more of a David Cronenberg movie than a Brian De Palma picture…
McGreevy and Shipman won the gig of writing this remake when their collaborated script Of Every Wickedness made it onto the 2007 studio blacklist of the hottest unproduced screenplays.
You might think I’m holding back my anger on a remake for a change but like I say I’ve never seen this original picture, however I will say this… The only thing worse than seeing Brian De Palma try to recapture his former glory, is seeing someone else trying to recapture Brian De Palma’s past glory.
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its a decent film (the original) Interestingly, Kirk Douglas claims he was hoodwinked by DePalma into starring in it, after initially only agreeing to a supporting role. He found his part gradually expanded during production until finally it became the lead!
Now this is the kind of movie they should be remaking… I always thought of the original as being fairly entertaining but extremely flawed. I think there’s plenty of room to improve upon it, unlike most of the bonafide masterpieces they seem to normally insist on remaking. Past glory? No, this is definitely minor De Palma but it certainly has potential. I’d rather see this than watch De Palma make another Black Dahlia…
Yeah, whatever happened to De Palma huh?