Brett Ratner Helming Brazil Remake

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=15954


Source: Variety
August 10, 2006


Brett Ratner will direct a contemporized remake of 1978 thriller The Boys From Brazil for New Line, reports Variety. Richard Potter and Matthew Stravitz will write the script.

Based on the Ira Levin novel, the original film fit the mode of 1970s paranoid thrillers, with Laurence Olivier uncovering a diabolical plot by Nazis in South America to revive the Third Reich through the use of cloning. Gregory Peck played Dr. Josef Mengele, the plot's mastermind.

The writers pitched a take that sticks close to Levin's novel but sets the action in the present day.

The Boys From Brazil will be produced by Rob Green of Granada, along with Rat Entertainment partners Ratner and Jay Stern.

The hope is Ratner will make "Boys" his follow-up to Rush Hour 3, which New Line puts into production in late September for an August 10, 2007, release.

 

[Kent]

Totally misleading topic-title. I thought he was gonna remake Terry Gilliam's "Brazil".

 

[Nathan]

And another remake. When does it end?

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Totally misleading topic-title. I thought he was gonna remake Terry Gilliam's "Brazil".

Same Here.

And even though I haven't seen Brazil yet, the idea of Brett Ratner touching Terry Gilliam's material is extremely disturbing.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Totally misleading topic-title. I thought he was gonna remake Terry Gilliam's "Brazil".

Yeah i copied and pasted the CS title which initially made me think it was Gilliams movie getting the shaft....thank god it's not Movies204 would have flipped

 

[Mentok]

I was coming in here to rant about 'Brazil' getting a remake

Anyway... Yet another remake... When will it end?

 

[thealiasman2000]

Could you imagine it this was true, and Brett Ratner really did direct a "Brazil" remake?

How would that movie turn out? How would it be?

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Could you imagine it this was true, and Brett Ratner really did direct a "Brazil" remake?

How would that movie turn out? How would it be?

It's not even worth thinking about. Shudder.

 

[TheSaintofKillers]

Could you imagine it this was true, and Brett Ratner really did direct a "Brazil" remake?

How would that movie turn out? How would it be?

Who would he kill first ? Where would he stop ?

 

[Mr. Credible]

i've never even heard of the first one, so this doesn't really bother me at all... actually most remakes don't.

sounds like a cool flick, though.

 

[Galactus]

And another remake. When does it end?

It ends when mankind tries to remake the entire planet

 

[Mr. Credible]

who cares that we have so many remakes?

it could be worse, like in the 80's when every mildly successful movie had to have at least 5 very bad sequels.

i'll take a remake or two over Friday the 13th #20 or Weekend at Bernie's 6 anyday. a corpse can only get kicked in the junk so many time before it's not funny anymore.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Change the thread title before more people have rage-induced strokes.

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

The only thing Ratner should remake is my order at McDonalds that they screwed up, when Hollywood gets smart and throws this hack back to drive-thru directing where he belongs.

I read the story elsewhere so I wasn't alarmed...that much.

 

[Addendum]

who cares that we have so many remakes?

it could be worse, like in the 80's when every mildly successful movie had to have at least 5 very bad sequels.

i'll take a remake or two over Friday the 13th #20 or Weekend at Bernie's 6 anyday. a corpse can only get kicked in the junk so many time before it's not funny anymore.

I'll take neither

 

[Movies205]

Hunter takes the title directly from CS.com but he should of taken it from DarkHorizons.com which has the full title As for Gilliam's Brazil, it's the one remake I'd be oppose to since it's not so much the story but the visual style and gilliam that makes the movie, to remake it without gilliam, you'd have nothign but a hollow shell... As for other remakes, I say keep em coming and hopefully one of em will get it right which is not to literally remake it, but to take that core story and create something new...

 

[JackBauer]

one thing I do like about remakes is that most of them become the reason for releasing a special edition DVD of the original.

and some of them do turn out to be great. a small percentage though.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Hunter takes the title directly from CS.com but he should of taken it from DarkHorizons.com which has the full title As for Gilliam's Brazil, it's the one remake I'd be oppose to since it's not so much the story but the visual style and gilliam that makes the movie, to remake it without gilliam, you'd have nothign but a hollow shell... As for other remakes, I say keep em coming and hopefully one of em will get it right which is not to literally remake it, but to take that core story and create something new...

If it's any concilation your pain when i thought this was a remake of said Brazil was my first concern

 

[Iceman]

Ratner & Brazil - two things that must never again be linked together.

 

[The Shape]

Ratner is teh sux!!!!!!!11


[Sorry.]

 

[CrimsonMist]

i also thought it meant Terry Gilliam's Brazil, which i've actually never seen, but want to. So before i move on, Criterion is re-releasing the film with an anamorphic transfer, in both single disc and 3 disc(director's cut, documentaries, and the dumbed down TV version). Which one should i buy? or should i even buy the film at all?

anyways, The Boys From The Brazil was a damn good movie. No need to remake it. I guess people these days are too incompetant to watch 70's films and need remakes. I dont even think this day and age can hold a concept such as cloning Hitler anyway. So i want to see how they make that work. But they should never EVER remake Gregory Peck films...NEVER! So screw Brett Ratner even more!

 

[Red Mask]

What a damn shame. Willl Hollywood ever move on?

 

[Obsidian]

i also thought it meant Terry Gilliam's Brazil, which i've actually never seen, but want to. So before i move on, Criterion is re-releasing the film with an anamorphic transfer, in both single disc and 3 disc(director's cut, documentaries, and the dumbed down TV version). Which one should i buy? or should i even buy the film at all?

anyways, The Boys From The Brazil was a damn good movie. No need to remake it. I guess people these days are too incompetant to watch 70's films and need remakes. I dont even think this day and age can hold a concept such as cloning Hitler anyway. So i want to see how they make that work. But they should never EVER remake Gregory Peck films...NEVER! So screw Brett Ratner even more!

If someone tries to remake "To Kill a Mockingbird", all hell will break loose!

 

[Superman]

Thank god it's not Gilliam's Brazil. I'd be pissed if they tried to redo it.

 

[Addendum]

After the 2 movies I want to see in '07 come out (Spidey 3 and Transformers), I'm through with seeing movies in theatres.

I'll just stick with buying the movies that have already been released on DVD, that I want to see. Because the way things are going in Hollywood, every damned movie that I want to see will be made into a damned ****ing remake.