Risky Business is reporting that Paramount Pictures has picked up a pitch from screenwriters Willie Block and Jack Emanuel for a Hunchback of Notre Dame film.
The high-concept action-adventure story mixes original ideas with the framework of the traditional Hunchback of Notre Dame story. Though said to be in the vein of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies, its plotline is being kept secret by producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian of Di Bonaventura Pictures, where the concept was originally hatched.
Perhaps they can set it in modern times with a cast of high school kids and make Quasimodo sparkly. It’s been 14 years since the Disney film, so why not? This is pretty much a no-brainer success for them if done right.
The Toxic Avenger is getting the big budget mainstream treatment sometime soon as well, so hopefully there will be enough demand for misshapen action heroes.
In better news, the original Lon Chaney Hunchback (pictured above) is available on Netflix Instant. Queue that sucker up and watch a master become a star.
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Boris Karloff's a cocksucker, Bela Lugosi's dead and LON CHANEY IS THE MOTHERFUCKIN MAN!
I believe that Seth Rogen as Quasimodo is very marketable.
Hope it's a musical – or better yet a sing-a-long.
Danny DeVito MUST take the main role!
Disney version is still underrated to this day. At least watch it for the late, great Tony Jay!
"Perhaps they can set it in modern times with a cast of high school kids and make Quasimodo sparkly." They already made this. Its called Big Man on Campus. No sparkles, but it's a guilty pleasure for me. "Me want…2 faces."
So the high concept is…take an existing idea and make it mainstream as fuck. Give me giant sacks of money!
They need to get that guy from the Golden Corral commercial wanting baby-back ribs for his family. He'd make a great Quasimodo.
Just the latest shitty idea in a long line of increasingly shitty ideas. I guess they will literally stop at nothing to have a franchise with a recognizable title. I'm embarrassed for movies.
Lon Chaney was the man. Hunchback and Phantom were masterpieces of the silent era. I don't really see the need for a new Hunchback: it's literally be remade about a dozen times.
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