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Alien Invades Mandate, Remakes 'Substitute'
Friday, September 19, 2008


By: MrDisgusting
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Although not quite horror, Mandate Pictures has acquired the remake rights to Danish helmer Ole Bornedal's The Substitute, which enters on a sixth-grade class and its substitute teacher who turns out to be an alien. The film has been set up at Columbia and is being developed separately from the main Mandate slate, under Ghost House Pictures, the genre label Mandate runs in concert with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. The original film arrives on DVD October 14th from Ghost House Underground and Lionsgate.



Source: Hollywood Reporter

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jofav
10:21am, September 19, 2008

better be good, cuz the original was just Great!!


Butters
11:19am, September 19, 2008

Wait...wasn't there another one named The Substitute, too? With Tom Berenger.


thedescent08
11:24am, September 19, 2008

You know, us Americans just can't read subtitles, so we need a remake of everything not in our language.......


corinnemic
3:03pm, September 19, 2008

I was hoping it was a remake of the Berenger film. With aliens. Maybe post-Berenger Treat Williams could pop in as a cameo "alternative universe" Substitute. I have no idea what I'm talking about anymore.


tlyon2
6:33pm, September 19, 2008

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tlyon2
6:38pm, September 19, 2008

Is it just me! Or does that weird looking girl in the picture look like sarah michelle gellar.


Blood-Sicles
12:21pm, September 20, 2008

But the original was soooo good! No one can replace the girl that played the substitute! She was AMAZING!!!


phoenison
3:15pm, September 20, 2008

This movie sounds awesome. I have yet to see the original. One of my favorite books in elementary school was Bruce Coville's "My Teacher is an Alien", where a student Susan finds out that the substitute teacher is an extraterrestrial that has the regular teacher trapped in suspended animation. It was an awesome book on its own. The rest of the series strayed over to a different tone (still good overall, but left the creepy hysteria).


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