Friday The 13th
Marcus Nispel – director of
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake – has inked his name on the dotted to helm the remake of the original Friday The 13th movie. It’s a great solution: run out of sequels, start at the beginning! It’s in pre-production now for a 2009 release.
[should be fantastic]
Hellraiser
They’ve given up making sequels, so now they’re remaking the 80s original. No sign of Doug Bradley as Pinhead, but Clive Barker has been involved with the script, and Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury will be making their English language directorial debuts with the project.
[If Barker makes it rather than just advises the script, it will also be fantastic, but if it is just another hellraiser franchise with out his personal involvement then it will be what we have seen before.. however I am very interested to see what Barker can add after decades of his different works]
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Hurray! That ‘reimagining’ word is being used to describe the now-in-the-pre-production stages new
Elm Street movie. Michael Bay produces, but doesn’t direct. Thank goodness.
[Also curious what could come of this, a lot of the 80s horror remakes have been really good, they eliminate the cheese and add some real fright sometimes, though I hope they add a bit of Freddy's 'charm' from the later films to this one, he is a classic]
