Thanks to Empire Magazine online word has reached me that John Landis's cult classic An American Werewolf is to be remade...yes this is truth as Dimension Films have bought the rights to this movie and now there is a writer attached to the project...this is Fernely Phillips and if the name doesn't immediatly make you recognise him or any of the films he's already written then I'll tell you that the mouthwateringly good horror film The Number 23 which Jim Carey was in a couple of years ago was a film he wrote.
And Sean and Bryan Furst are going to produce this...as they've produced another little known vampire film before Daybreakers this film should be good as my favourite version of Kate Bush's Running Up The Hill was in that film as it was covered by one of my favourite bands Placebo.
Talking of Vampires and Werewolves there will be yet another WolfMan film but unlike the film with Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Torro Universal who did this original film is starting the whole WolfMan thing again but this time is putting it under their in house Family and Entertainment section so unlike this version of the Wolf Man this other version will be less horror flick and more geared toward the family friendly crowd.
Universal have already got a director for this in Roger Corman who has already directed Hitcher 2, Roadkill 2 and Bats.
Also, Brim Stoker's Dracular has been the subject of many films but I hear from Variety that the legendary writng double act Tony and Ridley Scott are going to produce through their Scott Free banner a new look Stoker film.
However, this film has got Matthew Goode in negotiations to play the estranged uncle to Mia Wasikowska (she played Alice in Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland)...which is a strange choice if you ask me as the types of films such as Leap Year and Watchman...anyway Wentworth Miller has written a script for this new Stoker version but he's done this under a sudernym so says Variety Magazine...this is Ted Foulk (oh dear...sorry Wentworth I think if Variety Magazine have found this out the sudernym isn't that great and isn't doing him any favours of keeping him anonymous!)
Fox Searchlight have aparrently made this project a high priority as none other than Chan-wook Park is going to be directing this therefore Fox Searchlight want this project done fast as he is Park is quickly becomming a rising star thanks to his other high profile films such as 'OldBoy' and Thirst.
Goode though is just at the negotiations stage of getting this role, other actors that are also in the frame for this role are busy as a bee at the moment James Franco, Collin Firth (but these declined) as well as Michael Fassbender and Joel Edgerton.
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