Next Remake To Happen: Videodrome?

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Universal Pictures will remake the 1983 thriller Videodrome directed by David Cronenberg. Ehren Kruger is set to write the script and produce with his partner Daniel Bobker.

The producers tracked down the rights to Canadian distribution veteran Rene Malo, who will be executive producer.

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.

Cronenberg has no role in the film as yet. He is prepping for MGM The Matarese Circle as a starring vehicle for Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington. Since Cruise appears likely to next star in the DreamWorks drama Motorcade and Washington has committed to the Fox drama Unstoppable, Circle doesn’t appear likely to get under way until later this year or 2010.

The new picture will modernize the concept, infuse it with the possibilities of nano-technology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller.

So basically, they’re just going to take a good film and make it suck. Way to go Hollywood!

source: Variety

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