LIONS GATE & SCANNERS REMAKE
Moviehole writes:
Lions Gate Films are pushing ahead with a remake of Cronenberg classic Scanners. Artisan announced their interest to redo the film in 2002, but now that Lions Gate has taken over the company its their baby. Pierre David, Renalo and Clark Peterson will serve as producers on the film. Cronenbergs not keen on the idea saying previously that Id prefer that they not [revisit my earlier work]. I mean, Im sure that Stanley Kubrick didnt want to know about the minisereies of The Shining just like Im not rushing off to watch the miniseries of The Dead Zone either. So it does happen. In this particular case its more intimate, because I created Scanners, but I dont have the legal rights to control it. I could live without it. He adds, The chances that a good movie will be made from that are slim just because thats in the nature of the business. Remakes of old movies are not always going to turn out good. At the moment the movie is going out to directors Saw helmer James Wan, passed on it apparently (he also passed on FOXs remake of The Fly so will still be a while before its spooled out of a projector.
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