Posts Tagged ‘David Cronenberg’

With Robert Rodriguez’s Predators (a remake of 1987′s Predator) opening very soon (July 9th) we here at Movie-Thoughts thought it would be appropriate to bring up the topic of remakes and reboots. A looming remake besides Predators that has had the attention of the movie world is 2012′s reboot of the grossly successful Spider-Man franchise. Why is this?

Many fans on the blogosphere have expressed some downright odious sentiments about the idea of rebooting a movie franchise as successful as Spider-Man, especially so soon after the original trilogy was completed (Spider-Man 3 came out in the summer of 2007). In case you need to play catch-up on the topic, here is the full press release from Sony Pictures about the new Spidey project: Read the rest of this entry »

Short Take: A good mix of what is traditional with what is new

Directors: Michael and Peter Spierig (Undead)

Screenwriters: Michael and Peter Spierig (Undead)

Cast: Ethan Hawke (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead), Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Willem Dafoe (Fantastic Mr. Fox), Claudia Karvan

Length: 1h 38m

Synopsis: In the year 2019 most of the world’s population consists not of humans, but of vampires. Like a plague, the supernatural makeup of these undead has spread to all corners of the earth, dropping humanity from #1 on the food chain down to #2. Vampires soon overgrazed on their primary food source, reducing the human population to less than 5% of what it once was. If starved for human blood long enough vampires are transformed/deformed into nothing but wild animals, which is a change the vampires want to avoid at all costs. A small number of humans continues to fight for their lives with the help of certain sympathetic vampires, and together their goal is to find a cure that will re-humanize the earth. Read the rest of this entry »