After being announced what feels like decades ago, Joel Silver's Dark Castle is finally getting rolling on I Saw What You Did, a remake of the 1965 William Castle-directed I Saw What You Did and I Know Who You Are!. The big news is that the film will reteam director Patrick Lussier with screenwriter Todd Farmer (Jason X), who collaborated on Lionsgate's My Bloody Valentine 3D (arriving on DVD/Blu-ray next Tuesday). Read on for more.
The original Castle pic, which starred Joan Crawford, was based on the Ursula Curtis novel "Out of the Dark" and revolved around two girls who innocently pass the time making prank phone calls to unsuspecting people until they call the wrong guy.
Pic will be produced by Silver, Andrew Rona and Steve Richards. Dark Castle will finance and distribute through Warner Bros.
Lussier has a long relationship with Dark Castle prexy Rona, which goes back to his editing the first "Scream," when Rona was co-president of Dimension.
Dark Castle's first film was a remake of William Castle's 1959 pic "House on Haunted Hill."
Awesome. This film is due for a remake. I think they did a made for tv version of this in the late 80's or early 90's. The original is great. I got it on VHS. It reminds me of Hitchcock. Great plot/story for a movie. This could be updated to modern times and done really scary with the right script and director with a hard R rating.
yeah, count me in! Lusser did a great job w/ MBV3D, but i thought his next one was the 3D "zombie/actioner"....(i forget the name but it was posted on here a couple weeks back).
Honestly, they could have found a better screenwriter than Todd Farmer. I'm not sold on him, Jason X was beyond bad, and while MBV3D was better, it was still way to campy. Who knows, this could be good though.
Todd Farmer has a website:
http://www.wendago.com/about/
If you visit it, look around and he'll enlighten you on the difference between 'what' a writer writes, and 'what' makes it to the screen.
I think we'll see a lot better horror films in the future if we get more of these writer/director Teams.
No Heart, well said and GREAT point. i've been on Todd's page and 1. i learned a lot about the exact topic you brought up and 2. Todd is an AMAZINGLY nice & friendly and down to earth guy!
I liked the remake of MBV and that trailer for that old film doesnt look too hard to beat
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