Cash

Member
  • Posts

    420
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Cash

  1. Variety is reporting this...

    "Spider-Man 2" director Sam Raimi and original producing partners Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell are reteaming to produce a remake of the cult hit "The Evil Dead" through Ghost House Pictures, the joint venture of Raimi, Tapert and Senator Intl.

    Raimi wrote, directed and produced the 1981 "Dead," which tells of five twentysomething friends holed up in a remote cabin who discover a Book of the Dead. When an archaeologist's taped translation of the text and its incantations is replayed, the youths unwittingly summon dormant demons that possess them.

    Raimi will not direct the remake, so Ghost House is looking for a helmer to reinvent the franchise before a script is written.

    Original pic spawned subsequent installments "Evil Dead II" and "Army of Darkness."

    "Dead" will be fully financed by Senator Intl., which will hold worldwide rights to pic. Exec VP of motion pictures Nathan Kahane will oversee the pic for Senator.

    " 'The Evil Dead' is such a special film to Sam, Rob, Bruce and horror fans that we are going to take great care in renewing this franchise," said Joe Drake, Senator Intl. prexy. "By keeping its original formula intact and given audiences' appetite for horror, we expect that we'll have a real hit on our hands."

    Pic follows Ghost House's first horror release, "The Grudge," which has grossed more than $100 million worldwide to date.

    Senator and Ghost House are developing a sequel to "Grudge."

    Other upcoming pics include "Dibbuk Box" from the Pang brothers; "Scarecrow"; "30 Days of Night," in partnership with Columbia; and "Boogeyman," to be released by Screen Gems in February."

    I'm going to freaking die. Rami isn't directing it... and it's a remake... and it will suck...

  2. Also, it must be noted that it is Vader time for Big Van Vader.

    I was about to vote for him, (Big Van) when I was told "This is not the Vader you are voting for." Next thing I remember, it said I had voted for Darth Vader.

    And I wasn't wearing pants.

    See, I was about to vote for Darth when I was hit over the head with a toaster! When I came to, I had voted for Big Van...

    And he was wearing your pants.

  3. Donna is the hottest woman on the planet, and I would shove my own mother into Hellfire just to get a chance to lick her (Donna's) boots. Sorry, Cash, but you just don't stand a chance.

    No sorry needed man. I voted for Donna over myself.

  4. Hanks Cracks 'Da Vinci' Cast

    By Gregg Kilday

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Tom Hanks (news) is expected to step into the scholarly shoes of Robert Langdon, the professor who unravels the mystery of the Holy Grail in the film version of Dan Brown's phenomenally successful novel "The Da Vinci Code."

    Hanks has emerged as director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer's top choice for the lead role in the film, which Columbia Pictures hopes to begin shooting next year. And talks have begun for the actor to join the project.

    "Tom is an exciting actor to watch thinking," Howard was quoted as saying in the latest issue of Newsweek. "We probably don't need his status from a box office standpoint, but he gives Langdon instant legitimacy."

    Hanks, who currently can be seen onscreen in animated form in Warner Bros. Pictures' "The Polar Express," previously worked with Howard in 1995's "Apollo 13" and 1984's "Splash."

    Howard is currently completing work on "The Cinderella Man," a boxing drama starring Russell Crowe (news), which Universal Pictures will release in the summer.

    Akiva Goldsman, who wrote the screenplay for Howard's "A Beautiful Mind," is working on the screen adaptation of Brown's Doubleday novel, which has spent 86 weeks on the New York Times' hardcover fiction best-seller list.

    Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

    Source: Yahoo

    Good choice says I. What are everyone's thoughts about them adapting this?