The Fly remake?
Sometimes remake\revitalisation\revisit\reconception news comes that just makes me mad, and the idea that Hollywood are actively looking to remake The Fly is just horrendously dumb, but they are.
From Fangoria through Cinematical comes the news that Director Todd Lincoln who was Writer and Director on The Fly remake, is no longer.
...What he and his partner wound up hatching "was a complete outside-the-box re-imagining," Lincoln tells Fango. "It was both a love letter to and a complete departure from Neumann and Cronenberg's films. They already nailed the perfect versions of those stories. There is no good reason to do those approaches again."
Wise move, both these films are superb in their own ways and carry their own unique brand on the story. So these guys had found a third and just as interesting way to tell the tale? Sounds better than the average remake then.
"Our take had nothing to do with the Delambre family or Seth Brundle, and there are no telepods," Lincoln reveals. "This was a completely new story. The style and tone were a dark, smooth mixture of Val Lewton, Don Siegel and Roman Polanski. Someone still became a fly, but who, how, why they became a fly, what the creature looked like and what ultimately happened to it—we conjured totally new scenarios for all those major elements."
Lincoln brings us the bad news right at the kicker of the story though, the remake just isn't going to happen their way, but a traditional Hollywood remake.
"Last I heard, the people behind the people at the studio had changed their minds again and are leaning toward a straightforward remake"
Idiots. So we can expect more rubbish to be droned out of this film then.
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