--- Via Glenn comes this retarded story in OK Magazine about a sequel in the works for Brokeback Mountain. Heath Ledger will be back as Ennis, they say, dealing with the process of coming out in rural Wyoming in 1963. Uh huh. And the movie will be five seconds long, seeing as how that's how long a man lives after coming out in rural Wyoming in 1963. Gah. Maybe it can be a trilogy and we can have an elderly Ennis at Studio 54 in the DJ booth with Truman Capote, like always.
--- I haven't seen the 80s slasher April Fool's Day in years, since High School I think, but I was never terribly attached to it, so I guess I'm not going to tear out my hair and/or gnash my teeth over it's being remade. BD has the story details and assorted what-nots. It stars that chick who raped Laurie Strode's corpse.--- Not sure what I've been sniffing to make it so, but this morning, skimming
the news that this Birds remake with Naomi Watts really does seem to be happening, I found myself... what's the word... nonplussed by my utter lack of anger. Okay. Remake it. Go to town, people. Martin Campbell's an alright director. Naomi Watts is the best possible choice for a new Melanie Daniels.Whatever. It could work. I've no fight left in me.
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The Brokeback sequel story has zero credibility, not least because when the story ended, it was 20 years on from 1963 and Ennis was still very much closeted. I have no idea what inspired this rumor, but I've seen just enough idiocy in Hollywood that I won't call it a flat-out lie. After all, Annie Proulx really did give permission for the opera-ization of the story. I still haven't finished shaking my head over that.
I'm just anti-remake in general, I guess. Go be creative and write something new, you sleazy monegrubbing fucks. Sheesh.
I couldn't remember the exact timeline from Brokeback but I thought it smelled fishy. And yeah, these tabloids - esp. the British ones, it seems like - are always making shit up like this, so I never believed it for a second. No one involved would ever think this was a good idea. THANKFULLY. Unlike everyone who ever made a horror movie, apparently.
"It stars that chick who raped Laurie Strode's corpse."
For a minute there I thought Rob Zombie must've killed Laurie in the Halloween remake and then some chick raped her and I thought "wow, that's gross, why haven't I heard about that?" and then I realised I was an idiot and moved on.
"I've no fight left in me."
I know how you feel. For the most part I'm numb to the remake idea- there's no point in getting worked up; they're going to remake everything.
You're right about Naomi Watts being tapped for The Birds- I'd pay to watch her read the ingredients list on a box of Froot Loops- but Michael Bay is also attached and I can't...don't...derrrrrrrrrr.
I just read they're remaking Child's Play, even. They're catching up to NOW too quickly...coming next winter, the remake of Rob Zombie's Halloween!
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