io9 (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Before George Romero become the zombie master, he made a little film about germ warfare and mayhem called The Crazies. It's about a secret government weapon called Trixie, and now it's about to get a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Yet another remake has been greenlit. This time they're revisiting old school George Romero - The Crazies, a 1973 thriller about a virus that overtakes a small Kansas town and causes the locals to go insane, is being remade by Overture Films. Breck Eisner, of Sahara and the upcoming Flash Gordon remake, has been hired to direct from a script written by Ray Wright (Pulse) and Scott Kosar (The Amityville...
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
And yet another remake comes our way, courtesy of Overture Films which will produce and distribute a remake of the 1973 George Romero film The Crazies. The original told the story of people in a small Kansas town who are plagued by a virus that causes insanity and death after a toxin contaminates the local [...]
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
The horror remakes just keep coming — and it’s not surprising that George Romero’s work continues to be mined for them. According to Variety, Breck Eisner (”Sahara,” upcoming “Flash Gordon”) is attached to direct a remake of Romero’s “The Crazies” for Overture Films. Actually, it’s a pretty good time for “The Crazies” to be [...]
Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
George Romero's 1973 horror about an unleashed virus that causes insanity and death.
Empire News (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
George A. Romero's apocalyptic thriller
Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
You know, everybody knows Romero for being Papa Zombie, but he's made other movies that didn't even have the shambling dead in them. For example, The Crazies--which is being remade! How crazy do you have to be to remake The Crazies? It's a kindler, gentler 28 Days Later. If all you've [...]
/Film (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Last week we told you about George Romero’s new zombie movie (working title “Something of the Dead”) which is currently shooting in Canada. We only had a few details: The film is set on an island three weeks after the zombie outbreaks, and that underwater zombies will be featured. The official announcement in Variety gives [...]
/Film (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
George Romero is about to begin filming a new Zombie film in Toronto, but thankfully, it isn’t the Diary of the Dead sequel that has been mentioned in interviews. Romero revealed the following to SchlockAroundTheClock: “It’ll be about three weeks in [past the outbreak] and it doesn’t start with the people in the mansion [at the [...]
/Film (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
John Landis on Point Blank The Pitch: John Landis gives a commentary on the trailer for John Boorman’s Point Blank in Trailers From Hell. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com. Related Stories Breck [...]
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Who knew that one of the "most popular Russian [film] properties in history" is a based on a 1928 novel called "The Amphibian?" I sure didn't. Despite the big-screen, history-making adaptation called Amphibian Man back in 1962, the material is making waves today with an announcement that production company Stone Village (Turistas, The Human Stain) has acquired the film and publishing rights to the...
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
First Showing reports that Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless (Dracula Year Zero, Cobalt 60) have been hired by Sony to write the script for the new film version of Flash Gordon. A sci-fi classic based on the comic series, the story is focused on the titular polo player who is kidnapped and taken to the [...]
io9 (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
If you're already missing Flash Gordon now that his TV show is officially dead, take heart. The big-screen Flash movie has been floundering in development purgatory for ages, but now it seems as if... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun… Flash! Pakow! Ahhh! It’s quite difficult to decide what made up word successfully describes the noise after ‘Flash!’ is cried on the Queen song, but hecklerspray has gone with ‘pakow!’ and forever it will remain that way. What is less difficult [...]
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless have been brought in to sript the project, which is still in the hands of Breck Eisner (SAHARA, THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON remake). I'm deliriously tired & when I first read the name 'Matt Sazama', I read it as 'Matt Shazam' and thought it was just about the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
