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... and I did nothing because I wasn't Paul Verhoeven. Then they came for David Cronenberg, and I did nothing because I wasn't David Cronenberg. And then they came for me, and there weren't nobody to do nothing! Deadline reports that a remake of fucking Videodrome - Videodrome! - is being pursued. I mean... let's just ignore all the endless impossibilities inherent in remaking one of the most Cronenbergian of Cronenbergs and focus on the obvious - nobody even knows what "video" is anymore! That name is useless. Why not call it Mixtape-opolis or.Victrola-licious for all the timeliness that name implies. Videodrome is very much a product of its time - a glorious one I love, of course - and plunking it down anywhere else just isn't going to make much sense. I assume it'll be web-video-drome or cell-cam-drome or blah blah whatever - I am already bored to death.
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"Videodrome is very much a product of its time - a glorious one I love, of course - and plunking it down anywhere else just isn't going to make much sense. I assume it'll be web-video-drome or cell-cam-drome or blah blah whatever - I am already bored to death."
I don't think Videodrome has aged that well at all, but I really don't understand what a remake can bring to the concept. Every person is only a few keywords away from content that is far more abhorrent than anything depicted or implied in Videodrome. The curtains are fully back these days.
I think that Deborah Harry needs to go kick their fucking asses. I am so sick of Hollywood.
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