If you head on over to MSN.com you can watch the first trailer for Rogue Pictures' The Hitcher (set report), which hits theaters January 19. From filmmaker Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes production company (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror) comes a remake of the 1986 terror classic. Dave Meyers is directing the new film, which tracks the terrifying cross-country trajectory of Grace (Sophia Bush) and Jim (Zachary Knighton), two traveling college students who are tormented by the mysterious hitchhiker John Ryder, a.k.a. The Hitcher (Sean Bean).
Doesnt look very good... tho it can't possibly be worse than The Hitcher II.
Also, whats with the male lead? Could they not afford the actual Jared Padalecki so they just got his clone instead??
This movie really does look good. I doubt that it will be better than the 1986 C. Thomas Howell version but entertaining enough for me to see it. I don't know if Sean Bean can pull off the role of the hitcher. I don't think he can match Rutger Hauer at all but I guess I will have to wait and see when it hits theaters in January.
The trailer wasn't quite what I was expecting. I was thinking The Hither would be more along the lines of a horror movie, but then again I never saw the original. This movie looks more like a thriller, and a good one at that.
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