Post by stareater on Mar 29, 2005 7:01:28 GMT -8
I accidentally ran across some potenially good & definite bad news this morning. John Carpenter's The Fog is being remade. Rupert Wainwright is directing and Cooper Layne is writing the script, neither of whom have a long career ledger. Selma Blair takes over the role of Stevie Wayne, and the cast also includes DeRay Davis & Rade Serbedzija, actors I couldn't identify if you held a gun to my head. Remakes have been very bad of late, but I'm hoping the people in charge have enough sense not to populate the Elizabeth Dane with the track meet super zombies we've seen of late. One can hold hope, right? RIGHT!??
The bad news is that writer/producer Debra Hill succumbed to a long battle with cancer on March 7th. She was involved with many of the Halloween films (the town in the film, Haddonfield, was named after her birthplace of Haddonfield, NJ), as well as the original Fog and other writing, producing, and directing projects. She was a longtime collaborator with Carpenter (I've even seen bits that listed them as husband & wife, which they weren't). Hill & Carpenter came up with the idea for The Fog while on a trip to England. They were out on an foggy morning and were watching a fog bank roll across the moors, and came up with the concept of something terrible lurking within.
The bad news is that writer/producer Debra Hill succumbed to a long battle with cancer on March 7th. She was involved with many of the Halloween films (the town in the film, Haddonfield, was named after her birthplace of Haddonfield, NJ), as well as the original Fog and other writing, producing, and directing projects. She was a longtime collaborator with Carpenter (I've even seen bits that listed them as husband & wife, which they weren't). Hill & Carpenter came up with the idea for The Fog while on a trip to England. They were out on an foggy morning and were watching a fog bank roll across the moors, and came up with the concept of something terrible lurking within.
