It’s so crazy it might just work!
That’s how I feel about hiring the director of the indie snoozefest Lars and the Real Girl to direct the upcoming remake of Fright Night,
the movie that launched the gay porn career of Stephen Geoffreys. Craig
Gillespie is the lead choice by Dreamworks to helm the retelling of the
classic 80s movie about a kid who discovers his neighbors are vampires.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer goddess
Marti Noxon is writing the script, but the exact premise remains
unclear; in the original our hero turned to a TV horror movie host for
aid in killing the vamps, but as TV horror movie hosts simply don’t
exist anymore it seems unlikely the film will take that tack. One
previous rumor had the kid seeking out Chris Sarandon, who played the
vampire in the original Fright Night. That, too, is so crazy it might just work.
Gillespie,
by the way, isn’t some kind of indie-only darling, despite having made
a bad movie wherein Ryan Gosling falls in love with a sex toy. He also
directed Mr. Woodcock. Yipes.
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There's a horror host on local access in Dallas. Rob Zombie clone that stands around with about a dozen gothy friends, mumbling into a bad mic. Sometimes he pops up in front of the movies via the magic of green screen. Also, CHUD needs to get a captcha that works more than 25% of the time.
Marti Noxon! Awesome!
When is Abrahm Lincoln: Vampire Hunter getting made into a movie?
I thought Lars and the Real Girl was pretty good.
Marti Noxon = goddess? She is largely responsible for the decline Buffy suffered, taking the helm when Whedon left to manage "Angel", engineering the ill-conceived Buffy/Spike romance and the rest of the painfully bad Season 6, wherein a resurrected Buffy tackled "real-life
problems" and a mishandled "Willow gets hooked on magic" drugs metaphor storyline. She lacks subtlety and seems to clumsily interject her own hang-ups into the plotlines. She may have learned from her mistakes (she produces "Mad Men" now I believe) but I hardly think she deserves to be praised after the Buffy debacle.
Devin hating a hopeful and upbeat movie? Wha? What a surprise!
@Jules: maybe it was because I was dating an addict at the time, but Season 6 is one of my Buffy favorites. It was a unique direction for the show to take. (and agreement on the shitty CHUD captcha that works 15% of the time)
Isn't Noxon the same broad that said "Everyone is bi-sexual"? Yeah, no thanks. I'm sure there will be a character that turns out to be gay and an attempted rape scene because those worked SO well for Buffy. Oh, and fuck off comparing "magic addiction" to real life addiction, cunt.
Agreed, Right Bastard. Season 6 was pretty great. Dark, uncomfortable. I might even go so far as to say it had less low-points than Seasons 4 & 5. Not as many high-points, to be sure, but really great. And the nerds of doom were hysterical.
You're right Devin. Lars and the Real Girl wasn't nearly as magnificent as that Wolf Man movie you touted for months. Oh wait, that movie was ATROCIOUS, wasn't it?
You are everything that is wrong with movie fans.
Lars and the Real Girl was great. Pity there's no way they'd get the Gozz for this.
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