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Due to popular demand – some lad knocked on the office door and simply said ‘whatever you’re doing, keep doing it’ before admiring my freshly mowed grass – here’s another slab of sequel and remake news from various people and places. Again, where’s the new ideas fellas?
Sam Raimi lets rip on the “Spider-Man 2” DVD that the next film might not be his swansong after all. "If I have the same passion after this (Spider-Man 3), I would love to direct (No. 4) and hope they would ask me." Thanks to Superhero Hype.
According to Empire Magazine – the Aussie edition – Lions Gate wants James Wan to resume directing duties on the “Saw” sequel. Wan tells Moviehole he’s not keen to direct, but will a punnet of freshly plucked carrots change his mind? Meantime, the trades are reporting that “Saw” is headed for DVD in February of next year.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Al ‘Hoo Ha’ Pacino might be starring in a redo of “Witness for the Prosecution”. Although no formal offers have gone out, Pacino has shown interest in the project, based on the Agatha Christie play, which was filmed in 1957 with Billy Wilder at the helm and Charles Laughton as the lead attorney in a case in which a wife appears as a witness for the prosecution against her husband. David E. Kelley, a veteran of television’s courtrooms, would handle the screen adaptation for a producing team composed of Daniel Melnick, Marion Rosenberg and Dan Risner. With Pacino’s decision likely to depend on the choice of director.
Director Rupert Wainwright [“Stigmata”] might be heading into “The Fog”. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Brit director is up for helming duties on the remake of the Johnny Carpenter classic. Wainwright had been due to direct MGM’s "Blood and Chocolate" but is now expected to leave that project, for which MGM is likely to enlist a new director. "Fog" is set in a Northern Californian town about 100 years ago where a ship sank under mysterious circumstances in a thick, eerie fog. The ghosts of the deceased mariners return from their watery graves to seek their revenge.
Kevin Spacey told SciFi Wire that he’s pretty darn close to deciding whether he’ll move into the Luthorcorp building. The actor tells the site that he’s seriously considering Director Bryan Singer’s offer to play Lex Luthor in the upcoming “Superman” sequel/remake/reimagining.
Former “Wonder Woman” Linda Carter is heading to Hazzard County. The actress is playing Uncle Jesse’s girlfriend, Pauline, in the film version of “The Dukes of Hazzard”. James Roday, formerly of the TV show “Miss Match”, has also joined the cast – he’ll play racing car driver Billy Prickett.
