Michael Bay to remake Rosemary's Baby
edith head
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=60406I wonder if he's going to blow up Rosemary after she gives birth
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the ursula dudziak version was the best
edit: oops, just saw this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884788/
Please. If that were the case, George Lucas would be dead by now.
what has Lucas remade that cinedorks hold dear?
Are you serious?
Do you know any Star Wars fan who thinks Lucas has done anything *good* to the franchise since the original trilogy?
Yeah i'm serious O, but his subsequent Star Wars flicks weren't actual remakes of movies he didn't create.
I see this as an apples and oranges case. The original Rosemary's Baby is a subtle, often meandering paced movie. Putting a director on it that is famous for blowing up shit and has a heavy hand when it comes to both CGI effects and bro-rock soundtracks is kind of bizarre, don't you think?
Whereas with Lucas continuing to make Star Wars flicks isn't that much of a stretch. Star Wars is popcorn movie. The subsequent Star Wars titles were popcorn movies. The only difference between the first one and the recent ones is quality & execution, but it's essentially the same kind of movie.
Sample titles:
"H.I.C.K.S. (Hillbilly Inbred Commando Killer Squad)"
"Vatos In Space"
"RACE WAR!!!"
"Crips and Bloods VS. KKK"
I think too many of y'all missed that the date on the article was April 1.
it is on that article, but news of this first came out in 2008 when he was in negotiations in obtaining the rights:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1264472120080313
Yes please.
oh damn. that is lame.
We're splitting hairs.
I was responding to the idea that Bey would piss off some fanboy who'd kill him. And I was joking that if such a thing were vaguely likely - fanboys going apeshit on a director for f*cking up their favorite movie - than Lucas would be dead already. Doesn't matter if we're talking about a remake or not, Lucas destroyed arguably THE most influential (from a pop culture p.o.v.) cinematic franchise in history yet dude is still breathing.
MB need not lose sleep.
I should add: technically, Lucas remade all three of the OG trilogy with "new digital effects". Most of which added nada and fanboys thought made the films worse.
HAN SHOT FIRST!
But back to the topic at hand: What I think is so weird about a lot of stuff they choose to remake is that they're so obviously from another era of film. I can understand (well, sort of) if they want to remake a horror movie because you can accomplish more with special effects now. But why remake a movie that's good precisely because it's slow, understated and is completely based on mood? It's of that time, and you can't top it. It doesn't really make sense from a commercial standpoint either. It's not like the kids'll be like ZOMG NEW ROSEMARYS BABY!!!
Yet CLash of the Titans was #1 last weekend.
This is exactly the point I was trying to make. I can understand why modern directors would want to remake horror flicks like Dawn of the Dead because there is a level of constant energy/thrill there that could translate easily to the modern age AND actually be made better with the resources and technology available now.
But I don't understand why or how Bay would remake Rosemary's Baby without changing the atmosphere and plot of it completely. It's not his kind of movie- It's so slow and chilling that I can see a modern audience be completely bored by it and find it uneventful. It would bomb if he were to stay true to it. So what I picture is that he would sex it up bigtime with cgi effects and other signature heavy-handedness which would make it an entirely different movie. I would bet money that he would actually show the devil spawn.
Rosemary's Baby is the kind of flick where the ultimate horror is what you can't see and is born through the viewer's imagination and paranoia. Bay's movies aren't about the horror behind the unseen hand. He is all about extreme close ups of the hand beating the viewer over the head with some outrageousness.
That said, as much as I hate the idea of it, Bay remaking the Birds makes more sense to me.
And, yeah, no one is going to go after Disturbio director D.J. Caruso (had to look this up) and injure or kill him because they are already so cynical and indifferent that it just doesn't matter.
Cue slow motion shot of Megan Fox exiting a Beverly Hills mansion riding on a jet black Kawasaki Ninja in booty shorts and a black corset.
Follow her crystal clear blue eye *sparkle effect* down, and zoom in on the speedometer reading 300 million miles per hour.
Pan back to shot of mansion blowing up, resume normal shooting speed, as Fox wheelies down the driveway.
Cut to overhead shot of Kawasaki Ninja with a quickly overtaking shadow of a bird, wingspan 100 meters.
Cut to Fox's blue eye *sparkle effect* widening in alarm.
Cut back to show swarm of 1,014 mutant fanged ravens chasing her down the PCH...
Sorry, bored at work
I was thinking that the only was Michael Bay could successfully remake this is that if he was revealed as Satan in the sex/dream sequence or possible in the end as the baby. That is the only way.
Oddly enough, I'm going to see this in May.