The new flesh weeps - Videodrome to be remade.

The very first quote I used for the Live for Films tagline was "Long live the new flesh." This was of course a great quote from David Cronenberg's 1983 classic, Videodrome.

Now Universal have announced that they are going to remake it...

They've already hired writer Ehren Kruger (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen most recently) to put together a script, with Daniel Bobker (The Skeleton Key, The Brothers Grimm) producing.

There is no director yet but it is going to be updated turning it into a "large-scale sci-fi action thriller." A remake of Cronenberg's Scanners is also in development, but has hit some problems recent recently regarding the rights.

The original Videodrome starred James Woods as the head of Civic TV Channel 83, who makes his station relevant by programming "Videodrome," a series that depicts torture and murder that transfixes viewers.

He then becomes insane, possessed and/or totally messed up.

As they are currently remaking anything and everything I can't be surprised at this, but I really think they should leave the 'drome alone. James Woods was amazing in the lead. Still nothing can do to stop it. However, a remake of Scanners could possibly work.

What are your thoughts?

Source: First Showing

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Eastern Promises 2? David Cronenberg thinks so

David Cronenberg is a great director. He has made some amazing films, many of which are dark and twisted (Rabid, The Fly, Videodrome, The Brood, Existenz, etc). More recently his films have had a different kind of feel to them - History of Violence and Eastern Promises. In all that time I don't think he has made a sequel to any of his films. All that now appears to be about to change.

David Cronenberg, Viggo Mortensen, the writer Steven Knight, producer Paul Webster and the studio are the ones who want to see more, and that's unusual as it's the whole team, co-stars aside of course.

Speaking to MTV, Cronenberg revealed his plans.

“We are going to have a meeting very soon between me, Steve Knight and Paul Webster to discuss what the script would be...I have some very strong ideas about what I would like to see, but I would like to hear what they have to say as well. And then after that, if all goes well, Steve goes away and writes a great script. If we all like it, we make it.”

He raised the point that he had never wanted to make a sequel before now either, but explains why.

“...in this case, I thought we had unfinished business with those characters. I didn’t feel that we had finished with Nikolai and we had done a lot of research that was more than we could stuff into that one movie.”

This is great news as I thought Eastern Promises was a great film - such as nasty knife fight - and the ending certainly took Viggo's character off in a different direction.

What do you reckon? Is there enough in this to make a sequel? Would you want to see one?

Source: Filmstalker

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Videodrome - Long live the new flesh

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