Fox Searchlight To Remake The Fly

By Jack on 2003-09-05 17:02:36

Fox Searchlight has annouced a remake of The Fly. What is with all the remakes? Is there not an original mind left in Hollywood? If they make one more variation of Seven Samurai I'll probably kill someone.

(SCI FI WIRE) Fox Searchlight has just made a deal to remake the classic SF movie The Fly, with newcomer Todd Lincoln writing the script and directing, Variety reported. Lincoln's resume consists of commercials, shorts and music videos, the trade paper reported.

Searchlight was encouraged by the sleeper success of its summer zombie movie 28 Days Later. Lincoln, an avowed horror buff, told the trade paper that he admires the 1958 original Fly and David Cronenberg's 1986 remake.

"This is certainly inspired by the original, but it's a total re-imagining," Lincoln told the trade paper. He added, "Why, in both films, did the fly never fly?"

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