With a solid #1 box office opening, the Stiles White and Juliet Snowden scripted Knowing is the talk of the town. But while the film was being promoted, the married couple seemed to be overlooked, which is a shame considering the high caliber projects they're currently attached to. Thanks to Michael Adams' "The Wrap", we've got a little insight into both remakes of The Birds and Poltergeist. Read on for the skinny.
After chatting about Knowing for a bit, the duo talkes a bit about their heads were in regards to the remake of The Birds.
“With something like The Birds, you can take the concept of birds gone crazy and put that onto a myriad of situations," Showden tells The Wrap. "Whereas with some other remakes, we really felt that those were movies that we really couldn’t think of new scenes or ideas. Some of these remakes are already-perfect movies. We’re not saying The Birds isn’t a perfect movie -- but when we heard about that we had, instantly, a lot of ideas about what we could do [in the present] and how we would change it.’
“It was presented to us as they wanted to go back to the original source material because you just don’t want to attempt to remake a Hitchcock film. But the original novella, by Daphne du Maurier, had a lot of interesting source material. Alfred Hitchcock used it as his jumping-off point and told a story that was somewhat different from the novella.
“We took that same approach and went back to the source material rather than going to his film. Ultimately, what you would get is a modern-day telling of what if a bird phenomenon happened like that again -- rather than saying, ‘This person’s gonna play the Tippi Hedren role,’ and ‘Here’s the famous moment on the jungle gym.’ We really tried to avoid those things.”
Transitioning in the Poltergeist remake, they explain that it's a much different process.
“Poltergeist was a seminal film for us, you know, in our lives, and it’s like your dad’s classic vintage car that’s been in the garage and you’re not allowed to touch it,” says White. “It’s treasured; it’s valuable. We see Poltergeist as if, um, as if we’re being handed the keys to the car and we’re gonna be really careful with it.”
Obviously, the couple are keeping specifics under wraps, but what White will say is this: “Poltergeist was a real snapshot of the American family in the year that it came out --1982 -- and I think what we would do with the reimaging of it is, ‘What is the American family up to today?’”
2 excellent films that don't need to be remade. Noone can do Hitchcock except Hitchcock, I'm talking to you Van Sant. If they do remake Poltergeist, I hope they go very dark and creepy, nasty.
You know if people stopped going to these atrocious remakes, they'd stop making them. I can't say that I'm surprised about a Poltergeist remake, but I was hoping it wouldn't come for another 10 years or so. I have no problem with remaking movies that sucked but had a good premise that could have been done better. A perfect remake was The Hills Have Eyes because in my opinion the premise was very cool, but the original was very flawed and dare I say boring. But remakes of Nightmare, Texas Chainsaw, Poltergeist etc are classics that were perfect then and now.
I think to a point it is really sad that they are remaking all of these movies. I guess everyone has just gotten so lazy that they don't want to come up with something original. I would rather see a brand new horror movie and have it boring than to see all of the remakes.
A BIRDS REMAKE?????? BIRDS ARE NOT SCARY!!! THEY WERE NEVER SCARY AND THEY WILL NEVER BE SCARY, STOP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. I BEG YOU, THIS CRAP WON'T WORK
Even though they say they are not going to imitate Hitchcock, that will be EXACTLY what every critic will compare it to. It's THE BIRDS, it's HITCHCOCK. To me it's not that big of a deal like when it was PSYCHO. I'd be curious to see what someone would do with the movie today. POLTERGEIST does not bother me either. It was a decent 80's flick, ( the clown under the bed is the best part), but not a classic in my opinion. They could take that movie into some real dark places and make it scary as hell.
all I can say is good luck trying to compeate with the greatness of Tobe Hooper and Steve speilberg, Whoever remakes the poltergiest will not be able to come close as to what hooper and speilberg put together, not even close!
I read an interview with John Waters and he stated (to paraphrase) "that they should only allow directors to remake bad films." I agree with that 100%. Some things should not be messed with.
Demented, I agree. A remake of Police Academy would be on par with the Holocaust. But if they did, here is my choice for the cast:
Mahoney - Ben Stiller or Owen Wilson
Tackleberry - Vince Vaughn
Hightower - Michael Clark Duncan
Lassard - Leslie Neilson
Jones - Michael Winslow, because you can't fuck with art!
Callahan - any hot bitch with a giant rack!
they dont need to be remade.....i hope people die on the set of poltergiest if that classic does get remade........(seen it on e! true hollywood story that few people died on there) and who in the right mind would they get to play carolann?!?!?! id rather a sequel than a freaking remake!!!
I'm usually up for remakes to see some news ideas with the premises but...seriously, Poltergeist and The Birds? How damn full of yourself do you have to be to take on Hitchcock and Spielberg? And the comments about "modern day tellings" doesn't impress me in the least. That just sounds like a way to snatch someones idea and feel better about yourself. I'll route for remakes most of the time because I see a genuine love of the source material even though they fail miserably in the end. But this isn't it.
IDK could be good, both are amazing movies from my childhood so I hope they don't fucked them up. And they did Knowing so that movie was really good. And even as a PG-13 movie it was fucked... I know it was suppose to be R but I still can't see how lOL
Why can't Hollywood leave classics alone? I have an idea Hollywood, why don't you start coming up with new, fresh, and original ideas for some modern day classics. Faggots
AWESOME!!! I love POLTERGEIST! I just hope they make it like a true poltergeist.
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