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Post by Jen on Jun 15, 2007 20:00:25 GMT -5
Here's the thread to post news and/or bitch about upcoming remakes of Asian horror films. Some information Here about the upcoming remake of A Tale of Two Sisters. The original is one I highly recommend, one of my favorites, and I can't really see a remake version working nearly as well. But keeping an open mind of course.
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Post by Canetoad on Jun 17, 2007 5:28:59 GMT -5
I haven';t seen a good remake of an Asian horror flick yet. And I gather Pulse has just been remade as well - which I quite liked in a weird sort of way.
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Post by Jen on Jun 18, 2007 12:55:29 GMT -5
I haven';t seen a good remake of an Asian horror flick yet. And I gather Pulse has just been remade as well - which I quite liked in a weird sort of way. Yes, it was remade....and didn't do very well from what I have heard. I haven't seen it. Haven't seen the original either, but we rented it over the weekend and its here, planning on watching it tonight.
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Post by Jen on Jun 22, 2007 12:45:32 GMT -5
More about the A Tale of Two Sisters remake. From Bloody-Disgusting.comDavid Strathairn (pictured inside) has signed on to topline the horror remake A Tale of Two Sisters for DreamWorks, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Elizabeth Banks (Slither) already has joined the project, which is based on Kim Jee-Woon's 2003 Korean thriller of the same name. Strathairn will play a concerned father of two girls who return home after spending time in a mental institution. Once there, they are forced to deal with their stepmother's (Banks) obsessive and unbalanced ways as well as an interfering ghost. Brothers Thomas and Charles Guard will direct "Sisters," which is scheduled to start filming next month in Shreveport, La. Craig Rosenberg penned the screenplay, with a rewrite from Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro.
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Post by Jen on Jul 10, 2007 11:22:22 GMT -5
And more casting news.... From Bloody-Disgusting.comArielle Kebbel (pictured inside; The Grudge 2) has landed a lead role in DreamWorks' A Tale of Two Sisters, the remake of the popular Korean horror-thriller, according to Variety. Elizabeth Banks (Slither), David Strathairn and Emily Browning (Darkness Falls) also star in the pic, helmed by Tom and Charles Guard. Lensing starts in July in Vancouver. The DreamWorks version centers on modern-day teenage sisters Anna and Alex Rydell who return home from a mental hospital only to find their recovery unraveling because of a cruel stepmother, clueless father and a lingering ghost.
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Post by GP on Jul 10, 2007 20:03:59 GMT -5
I haven';t seen a good remake of an Asian horror flick yet. And I gather Pulse has just been remade as well - which I quite liked in a weird sort of way. Yes, it was remade....and didn't do very well from what I have heard. I haven't seen it. Haven't seen the original either, but we rented it over the weekend and its here, planning on watching it tonight. The Pulse remake was mostly awful but looked kind of nice. I hear there's now an unrated version. May be worth a look. As for A Tale of Two Sisters, it's just such a good film on every level I find it hard to believe the remakers can do anything but screw it up. Remaking genre films is one thing, remaking a piece of art is next to impossible.
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Post by GP on Jul 10, 2007 20:09:09 GMT -5
On the other hand I've just read that Thomas Guard was third assistant director on The Avengers, so it's bound to be amazing.
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Post by Canetoad on Jul 10, 2007 21:13:35 GMT -5
Ginge check out the Jap version of Pulse if you haven't already. It really is worth a watch.
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Post by GP on Jul 10, 2007 21:16:26 GMT -5
Yeah I've seen it. I liked the pace and ultra doom-laden ending.
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Post by Canetoad on Jul 10, 2007 21:30:13 GMT -5
Agreed on both counts. It is actually one I reckon would benefit from a really dark and apocalyptic sequel.
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Post by Jen on Jul 11, 2007 13:53:01 GMT -5
From Variety.com Hollywood is reaching out to monster movie 'Host.' SEOUL -- A South Korean monster movie about a huge amphibious mutant, which made a big splash at Cannes in May, is looking ripe for a Hollywood remake. Multiple studios are said to be circling "The Host," which has a U.S. distribution deal with Magnolia Pictures. Sales agent Cineclick Asia expects to wrap up a deal on remake rights in the early fall.
Apart from the film's digital effects (courtesy of San Francisco's the Orphanage) and political barbs (aimed at both the Korean and U.S. governments), "The Host" marks an international coming-out party for Bong Joon-ho. Helmer, who previously directed fest hit "Memories of Murder," is poised to join Park Chan-wook ("Oldboy") and Kim Ki-duk ("Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring") as the best known figures of South Korea's film renaissance.
Bong's next projects will be a smaller-scale drama about a mother and her son, which could start shooting this year, and a big-budget adaptation of the French sci-fi comicbook "Le transperceneige."
The director reportedly has received offers from at least one top-level U.S. producer to direct in Hollywood, however, so Bong's plans could be in for a change
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Post by Jen on Jul 23, 2007 13:41:46 GMT -5
From Bloody-Disgusting.com(the summary of the films may be spoilerish for those that haven't seen the remake or the original film, so proceed carefully. ~Jen) It was revealed back in February that Dimension Films was planning two sequels to their box office disaster Pulse, which was one of the worst horror films in the past two years. Both films were said to go straight to video without any of the stars of the remake returning. Today Bloody-Disgusting scored some monster details on the sequels, which begin lensing in Shreveport, Louisiana this September. Read on for the exclusive look at the titles, director and synopses.
Bloody-Disgusting has learned that Joel Soisson with both write and direct both sequels to PULSE. He most recently directed Buried, The Prophecy: Forsaken and The Prophecy: Uprising for Dimension. He also produced Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, Feast, Dracula 2000, Phantoms among countless others.
The first sequel is titled PULSE: AFTERLIFE
The world has been reshaped by the invasion of ghosts via the wireless internet. Cities are deserted, technology has been destroyed and the few remaining human beings eschew anything electrical in order to avoid a confrontation with the soulless ghosts that now wander the planet. Most of the ghosts are doomed to a repetitive loop of something they did while they were still despairing humans (a man repeatedly hangs himself, for example), but there are some ghosts so locked in denial, they do not know they are dead. They continue to haunt their homes, wrapped in fear that their souls will soon be torn from them.
The second sequel is titled PULSE: INVASION
It is now seven years later and the survivors on Earth have settled into a primitive lifestyle completely void of electronics. The clusters of human survivors live together in refugee camps as the phantoms have taken over the cities. Justine is now a teenager and she escapes to the city to try and make a life for herself where she is not a drain on her adopted family (her parents both became phantoms in part one). She heads in to the city at the urging of Adam, a seeming survivor in the city that lures her with promises of understanding and friendship.
Watch for more as it comes in!
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Post by GP on Jul 23, 2007 17:40:15 GMT -5
From Bloody-Disgusting.comBloody-Disgusting has learned that Joel Soisson with both write and direct both sequels to PULSE. Wow. Brought to you by the director of Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence. SOLD!!!
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Post by Jen on Jul 27, 2007 11:12:01 GMT -5
From Bloody-Disgusting.com (click to see the stills) Today we received the exclusive first look at two images from Lionsgate's The Eye remake, which features the stunning Jessica Alba. In the film Sydney, a young, blind violinist is given the chance to see for the first time since childhood through a miraculous corneal transplant. As Sydney adjusts to a dizzying new world of colors and shapes, she is haunted by frightening visions of death itself capturing the doomed and dragging them away from the world of the living. Terrorized and on the brink of insanity, Sydney must discover whose eyes she has inherited, and what secret visions they have held.
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Post by Jen on Jul 30, 2007 13:28:16 GMT -5
From Bloody-Disgusting.com After stealing my soul with her beautiful eyes, Jessica Alba chatted with me briefly about her upcoming role in THE EYE, which hits theaters February 1, 2008. She talked a little bit about the French directors (David Moreau and Xavier Palud) and how this film differs from their first feature film, THEM, which is slated for theatrical release this August. "The French directors are amazing, it's really going to take the horror genre to another level" she tells B-D, "THE EYE has lots of blood, lots of gore, insanity, ghosts and its painful because you're going through the entire experience with this girl... you feel her anxiety from beginning to end." She elaborates, "The film is put in first person perspective to really feel the anxiety and what the characters feel. Ours (The Eye) is a lot more suttle and psychological."
So things are going fine and dandy when the hilariously unfunny Dane Cook interrupts, "I'm a huge Fangor collector, I have the first 100 Fangor magazines," he continues, "I was in Mr. Brooks." I swear to God he said Fangor and I'm not quite sure if he was trying to be funny or was just lying - either way, thanks for wasting what little time I had with the astounding Jessica Alba.
Annnyyyways, I was able to squeeze one last question in by the time Dane Cook was done yapping about MR. BROOKS - I need to know, is the infamous elevator scene in THE EYE remake? Alba gives me the sexiest of sly smiles and says “You’ll have to see it,“ to which I responded “That’s a yes”… then she was pulled out of my life forever. I'll miss you Jessica.
In THE EYE Alba plays Sydney, a young, blind violinist is given the chance to see for the first time since childhood through a miraculous corneal transplant. As Sydney adjusts to a dizzying new world of colors and shapes, she is haunted by frightening visions of death itself capturing the doomed and dragging them away from the world of the living. Terrorized and on the brink of insanity, Sydney must discover whose eyes she has inherited, and what secret visions they have held.
I should really take it upon myself to edit these articles sometimes....I think the word "suttle" may have been misused.... haha....~Jen
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