Cronenberg Considering a Remake of The Fly
The Fly [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000343/].
Starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, The Fly was a "huge hit," according to the remaking everything in sight [http://www.riskybusinessblog.com/2009/09/david-cronenberg-doing-reboot-of-the-fly.html], Cronenberg has reversed his past stance against having another go at the film and is now negotiating a deal with Fox to write and possibly direct a reboot.
I hate the word "reboot." You know why? Because in film-making terms it's essentially the same as a "re-imagining," and we've already been down that road; it's nothing more than a five-syllable excuse for the creatively barren wasteland the Hollywood movie system has become. You can't turn around these days without being pasted in the face by a remake of some not-all-that-old movie, chewed up and puked out onto audiences like a $12 breakfast in bed delivered by a well-financed but remarkably untalented mama bird.
Of course, nobody's going to accuse David Cronenberg of not having talent and that's the one upside to all this: I can't think of anyone I'd rather see directing a remake of one of his best-known films than Cronenberg himself. It's also a bit disingenuous to rail against a remake when the 1986 release was itself an update of the 1958 Vincent Price vehicle [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051622/] of the same name. Fair is fair, I suppose.
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The Fly [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000343/].
Starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, The Fly was a "huge hit," according to the remaking everything in sight [http://www.riskybusinessblog.com/2009/09/david-cronenberg-doing-reboot-of-the-fly.html], Cronenberg has reversed his past stance against having another go at the film and is now negotiating a deal with Fox to write and possibly direct a reboot.
I hate the word "reboot." You know why? Because in film-making terms it's essentially the same as a "re-imagining," and we've already been down that road; it's nothing more than a five-syllable excuse for the creatively barren wasteland the Hollywood movie system has become. You can't turn around these days without being pasted in the face by a remake of some not-all-that-old movie, chewed up and puked out onto audiences like a $12 breakfast in bed delivered by a well-financed but remarkably untalented mama bird.
Of course, nobody's going to accuse David Cronenberg of not having talent and that's the one upside to all this: I can't think of anyone I'd rather see directing a remake of one of his best-known films than Cronenberg himself. It's also a bit disingenuous to rail against a remake when the 1986 release was itself an update of the 1958 Vincent Price vehicle [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051622/] of the same name. Fair is fair, I suppose.
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