Captain Blood remake

[Galactus]

John Brownlow Penning Captain Blood
Source: Variety December 3, 2008


Variety says Warner Bros. Pictures has hired John Brownlow to write its remake of the classic swashbuckler Captain Blood, produced by Bill Gerber.

The project is being developed by Philip Noyce with an eye toward directing. Warner is developing the film as a possible U.K./Australian co-production.

Errol Flynn starred in the 1935 original, directed by Michael Curtiz, as a doctor wrongly sentenced to slavery in the Caribbean, where he and his comrades become avenging pirates. It was nominated for the best picture Oscar.

 

[블라스]

Oh brother
Oh well, if they're going to remake this, they might as well do it properly....is Cary Elwes too old for this?

 

[Galactus]

Pirates Not of the Caribbean
Captain Blood gets sci-fi remake.
by Scott Collura
July 30, 2009 - Warner Bros. has hired Michael and Peter Spierig (Undead, Daybreakers) to direct a new version of Captain Blood, the 1935 Errol Flynn pirate classic. John Brownlow (Sylvia) will write the film.

As Variety reports, the original film was about a "wrongly imprisoned British doctor who escapes to become a pirate in the Caribbean." That's as opposed to a pirate of the Caribbean.

Here's the catch, though. The Spierig brothers will set their film in… outer space.

"After WB and producer Bill Gerber dusted off the library title and had Brownlow do a faithful first draft, they sought out pitches from filmmakers," says the trade. "The Spierig siblings won the gig with a bold animatic presentation, Gerber said."

"At first, I felt like I was in that scene in The Player, where Buck Henry pitches the sequel to The Graduate," says Gerber. "But when I took a look at their animatic depiction of a pirate battle in space, it had such a distinctive visual look to it that I said, 'Great, I get it.'

 

[deathshead2]

The Spierig brothers. The guys who made that horrible zombie movie?

 

[Kurosawa]

At least it's a remake of a movie that isn't relatively new I guess. It's not as asinine as remaking The Thing, for example.