Peckinpah's Straw Dogs to be remade
Straw Dogs seems the next classic piece of cinema to receive a half arsed attempt at a remake and destroy it in the process.
For those of you who don't know this highly controversial film, it stars Dustin Hoffman and Susan George as a couple who are repeatedly subjected to violence from the local community, a violence which escalates to a brutal rape scene and results in Hoffman's character seeking revenge. It's a violent film from Sam Peckinpah written by himself and David Zelag Goodman from the novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm by Gordon Williams. The film garnered a lot of controversy, and although released in 1971 it was in 1984 that it was banned in the UK until 2002.
Now according to The Hollywood Reporter through Moviehole tells us that Rod Lurie, the man behind the excellent Command in Chief, is set to remake the film.
Clint is right, it isn't long before classics such as The Godfather are remade. This is getting truly ridiculous.
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