Warner Bros. Feels 'The Hunger' Again

It was a tiny ripple in a story about writer Whitley Streiber changing representation and signing with the Gersh Agency, but it's probably the most interesting part of the entire Hollywood Reporter article. It appears that Warner Bros. is remaking Streiber's novel, The Hunger. The original film was directed by Tony Scott back in 1983 and starred David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, and Susan Sarandon. It's more well-known than it is good, although as a first film, it allowed Scott to move on to flicks like Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop 2, and Days of Thunder, before really hitting his stride in the mid-90s. There's no word whether or not Scott will be aboard the proposed remake, although I rather doubt it. However, it would give us a complicated vampire love story in movie theaters, and nobody's doing that right now. Good timing. Streiber's work should be well-known to movie fans; his novels have been turned into Wolfen, Communion, and The Day After Tomorrow, with four movies currently in development. For what it's worth, IMDB has the Hunger project listed as a sequel - The Hunger 2 - so we'll wait until we get more details about it before we officially call it a remake or a follow-up.

Comments

[Tjei]

Everybody go watch The Hunger. It's an excellent film. It is the ONLY good Tony Scott picture.

[Get The Big Picture]

Well, I don't know about that. But it's certainly got a great style.

[Iza Larize]

1983's The Hunger is stylish, but not that great. I only watched it because of Catherine Deneuve.

[brewedawakening]

They should hire adam lambert to play David Bowie.

[brewedawakening]

They should cast adam lambert to play David Bowie.