Monday
09Jun2008
Platinum Dunes Remakes 'Rosemary's Baby' So You Won't Have To
Monday, June 9, 2008 at 6:52PM
If there existed a flow chart of what movies needed
remakes, what movies might be inspired remakes, and what movies shouldn't be
remade, horror movies would run the gamut. Without question, there are some that
need a fresh look (The Fly), while others could be good in the right
hands (Dawn of the Dead) and still others should be untouchable (Psycho).
Rosemary's Baby falls into that second
category; it is neither blasphemy to assume such a notion nor is the movie one
that absolutely has to get a modern update. But I would be interested to see
what they could do with the paranoia and mysterious beast-baby plot 40 years
later.
"If we don't do Rosemary's Baby, someone else is. They're not going to pass on that. Being horror fans like we are, we want to take the opportunity to take shot at it rather than read about someone else doing it. All the shit we get for doing these things, it really just comes from being huge fans and wanting to take a shot."First of all, I'm not sure a lot of companies would remake this, at least not in the cheap assembly line system Platinum Dunes uses. He's right that they get a lot of shit for their remakes (with Friday the 13th, The Birds, and Nightmare on Elm Street still to come), and deservedly so: Their remakes are shit. The company does have its first pair of original horror movies due out within the next year, so hopefully those will be better, but to this point, all we've seen is weak scripts and way too much blood. If that's what they intend to do with Rosemary's Baby, then they've missed the point and can't be considered "huge fans." Hacks, again, would prove to be the appropriate word.
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