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20-08-05, 04:08 AM
“Don’t Look Now", 1973, considered one of the scariest and sexiest films is getting the remake treatment. But will Hollywood adaptation of the short story by British author Daphne du Maurier come up to the same expectation as the original, remain to be seen.
The famous film starred Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as a grieving couple on a trip to Italy after the death of their daughter Christine.
Scene featuring Sutherland and Christie has become one of the most celebrated love scenes in the movies, but Hollywood wants to create a sexier environment for the film so it’s changed the timeframe from winter to summer and plans to add more sex scenes.
Paramount Pictures’ update centers on a couple, John and Laura Baxter, who go to Venice, Italy, to recuperate after the sudden death of their daughter only to encounter strange visions that suggest their daughter’s presence. Andrea Berloff will write the screenplay for the adaptation.
The original film, directed by Nicolas Roeg “was very much of its time with a lot of atmospherics that wouldn’t necessarily work today,” said the update’s producer, Mark Gordon. “But it has a great idea and a wonderful backdrop and setting. We hope to take the feeling of the story, continue to set it in Venice and make it contemporary.”
The new version of the classic film will not include the most terrifying character dwarf who dispatches the star Donald Sutherland in the original. Producers of the £45 million adaptation believe that the dwarf is not frightening enough for a modern audience.
The image of the murderous dwarf who stalks the back streets of Venice hidden under a red cloak has become closely identified with the Italian city. But the producers of the film, which is due to start shooting early next year, are convinced, however, that the character is too old-fashioned.
Josh McLaughlin, who is co-producing the film, said it was important to recognise that audience expectations had changed over the years.
“We are talking about doing away with the dwarf altogether,” he said. “It is a seminal image but we feel there are other ways of conveying the ideas behind it.
“Many people watching the film believe that the dwarf is actually a character rather than a manifestation of what Sutherland is feeling. The way he kept bumping into him was a little too obvious and a little too coincidental.”
Laura becomes obsessed with an elderly psychic and John believes that a figure dressed in red, who subsequently turns out be the dwarf, is Christine. At the end of the film, he is stabbed to death.
The famous film starred Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as a grieving couple on a trip to Italy after the death of their daughter Christine.
Scene featuring Sutherland and Christie has become one of the most celebrated love scenes in the movies, but Hollywood wants to create a sexier environment for the film so it’s changed the timeframe from winter to summer and plans to add more sex scenes.
Paramount Pictures’ update centers on a couple, John and Laura Baxter, who go to Venice, Italy, to recuperate after the sudden death of their daughter only to encounter strange visions that suggest their daughter’s presence. Andrea Berloff will write the screenplay for the adaptation.
The original film, directed by Nicolas Roeg “was very much of its time with a lot of atmospherics that wouldn’t necessarily work today,” said the update’s producer, Mark Gordon. “But it has a great idea and a wonderful backdrop and setting. We hope to take the feeling of the story, continue to set it in Venice and make it contemporary.”
The new version of the classic film will not include the most terrifying character dwarf who dispatches the star Donald Sutherland in the original. Producers of the £45 million adaptation believe that the dwarf is not frightening enough for a modern audience.
The image of the murderous dwarf who stalks the back streets of Venice hidden under a red cloak has become closely identified with the Italian city. But the producers of the film, which is due to start shooting early next year, are convinced, however, that the character is too old-fashioned.
Josh McLaughlin, who is co-producing the film, said it was important to recognise that audience expectations had changed over the years.
“We are talking about doing away with the dwarf altogether,” he said. “It is a seminal image but we feel there are other ways of conveying the ideas behind it.
“Many people watching the film believe that the dwarf is actually a character rather than a manifestation of what Sutherland is feeling. The way he kept bumping into him was a little too obvious and a little too coincidental.”
Laura becomes obsessed with an elderly psychic and John believes that a figure dressed in red, who subsequently turns out be the dwarf, is Christine. At the end of the film, he is stabbed to death.