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Wow, a remake of a movie that's more than 10 years old? Will audiences accept an updated version of a film older than they are? According to Hollywood Reporter, RKO is banking on it; hiring newcomers Brian Horiuchi and Matt Lazarus to pen an update of the 1945 film Isle Of The Dead, which starred Boris Karloff. Read on for more...


Per Hollywood Reporter:

In the 1945 film directed by Val Lewton, Karloff played a Greek military commander on an island where a plague breaks out. He orders the isle quarantined and as residents fall ill and die, some begin to suspect that a vampire-demon might be the cause of the deaths.

RKO plans to set the remake against the backdrop of a viral outbreak in Afghanistan.

"Val Lewton made his name by taking the horror genre to a new place," said RKO chairman and CEO Ted Hartley, who will produce. "Brian and Matt have the same kind of genre-bending sensibilities that will give this classic tale the perfect blend of contemporary themes and timeless scares."

This isn't the first remake of a Lewton film; his classic 1942 film Cat People (which was directed by Jacques Tourneur) was remade in 1982 by Paul Schrader. No director is set as of yet, but let's hope that if the film is any good, people remember it as HIS film instead of the producer's. Poor Tourneur...




Source: Hollywood Reporter

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	KarloffLives 5:14pm, August 15, 2007 PROFILE - MESSAGE - REPORT Lewton didn't direct Isle of the Dead either -- that was Mark Robson.
	JGrayland 2:13am, August 16, 2007 PROFILE - MESSAGE - REPORT Hahahaha. Nice catch.

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