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Behold the Horror of Scorsese's 'Shutter Island' Trailer
11 June 2009 11:15 AM, PDT
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The trailer for Martin Scorsese's next film, Shutter Island, has just hit the web, and it looks terrific. Really terrific. So-good-that-even-if-it-wasn't-a-horror-film-we'd-still-be-excited terrific. But it is a horror film -- or at least a "tale of terror" -- and one that looks to showcase the filmmaker's passion for the works of legendary horror-auteur producer Val Lewton (evident in documentaries Scorsese has directed or produced, like A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies and Val Lewton: A Life in the Shadows). In fact, the trailer alone shows the influence of Lewton's Bedlam, Ghost Ship and Cat People. But filtered through the sensationalism of '70s
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Adam Marcus Helming Rko 'I Walked With A Zombie' Remake!
16 March 2009 12:53 PM, PDT
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Several months back, we reported that Rosebud & Twisted Pictures were producing 4 new remakes of classic Rko pictures. Now, the first of the bunch has landed a director. Adam Marcus, the director of Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday will direct I Walked With A Zombie from a script he co-wrote with Debra Sullivan according to Variety. "Adam and Deborah have created a chilling screenplay that along with Adam's vision would make Lewton proud," Fickman told Variety.
The article continues, "The film focuses on a private tutor who discovers a terrifying family secret while working at the ancient estate of a New Orleans businessman. The original was a forerunner of the corps of walking corpse films that followed. Hartley called the film one of the most valuable in the Rko library. Rko's Ted Hartley will produce with Twisted's Mark Burg, Oren Koules and Carl Mazzocone. Andy Fickman, who recently pacted
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Updated: Exclusive: Director Andy Fickman on Remaking Val Lewton's Horror Classics!
16 March 2009 7:33 AM, PDT
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Updated 3/16/2009: Variety.com has confirmed earlier reports that Rko's Roseblood Movie Co. and Twisted Pictures have chosen Adam Marcus (Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday) to run with the Val Lewton Rko remake of the 1943 classic, I Walked With a Zombie. The report also indicates that Marcus has written the script with Debra Sullivan (Conspiracy) about a tutor who discovers a terrifying family secret while working at the creepy estate of a New Orleans businessman. Our old pal, Andy Fickman, will executive produce the pic since he has recently agreed with Roseblood Movie Co. and Twisted Pictures to oversee four Rko remakes including the upcoming titles I Walked With a Zombie, The Body Snatcher, Bedlam and Five Came
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Jason Goes To Hell director tackles Zombie remake
15 March 2009 10:08 PM, PDT
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Variety reports that Adam Marcus, who helmed Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, has been attached to the remake of I Walked With A Zombie. The 1943 Rko classic, produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur, is being updated by the new Rko’s Roseblood Movie Co. and Twisted Pictures, which has produced the Saw series among others.
Marcus also scripted the new Zombie with Debra Sullivan; the story is set on a New Orleans estate where a private tutor discovers a family secret involving voodoo. Overseeing the project is busy Andy Fickman (see item here), who’s also supervising revisitations of Lewton’s The Body Snatcher, Bedlam and Five Came Back. “Adam and Deborah have created a chilling screenplay that along with Adam’s vision would make Lewton proud,” Fickman tells the trade.
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Director Andy Fickman on Rko Remakes
6 March 2009 12:01 PM, PST
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As you may recall, Rko announced a deal with Twisted Pictures earlier last year, and as a result there has been a lot of chatter amongst the two companies about horror remakes. ComingSoon published an interview with director Andy Fickman (Race to Witch Mountain), who will be producing I Walked with a Zombie for Rko and Twisted Pictures, about some of them.
From the interview:
"I loved I Walked with a Zombie," he told the site. "I remember catching it on a big screen at some revival house. I thought it was one of the most beautiful horror films in terms of the looks with shadows. Of all of them, Body Snatcher will probably be the one that I’ll direct and I thought that it was great in terms of the medical community today, and there was a lot of stories that were in the press.
“Bedlam was also
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