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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ryan-murphy-jason-blum-teaming-413554
Never seen the original, but it sounds interesting. Most intrigued by the choice of director. His episodes of AHS have been incredible. I could see him having quite a career ahead of him.
Trailer of the original:
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Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum Teaming Up for MGM's Remake of 'The Town That Dreaded Sundown'
9:20 PM PST 1/17/2013 by Borys Kit, Lesley Goldberg
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is in negotiations to direct the movie, which already has a script by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the playwright who wrote MGMs upcoming remake of "Carrie."
Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum are teaming up for the remake of MGMs cult-classic horror pic The Town That Dreaded Sundown.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is in negotiations to direct the movie, which already has a script by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the playwright who wrote MGMs upcoming remake of Carrie.
Sundown, released in 1976, was in many ways a precursor to the found-footage phenomenon that stalks the horror genre today. The movie, directed by Charles B. Pierce, fictionally tells in documentary style, complete with a voice-over, "true events" that occurred in and around Texarkana in 1946.
Over a period of months, a serial killer dubbed the Phantom Killer murdered several people, throwing communities into fear. He was never caught.
MGM is aiming to produce the remake on a low budget and keep the original's cinema verite style. The remake is said to have horror-movie tones and elements of a procedural in the vein of David Finchers Zodiac. The project is eyeing a spring start and had been operating under a veil of secrecy until Murphy revealed certain details during a press screening of the second season finale for the horror show he co-created, American Horror Story.
Murphy said that while working on his next directorial project, Normal Heart, with Blum, the two began a dialogue about horror movies. Blum is considered a maestro of the low-budget found-footage genre, with credits such as the Paranormal Activity franchise.
The movie I was the most freaked out by as a child was this movie that no one ever saw called The Town That Dreaded Sundown, said Murphy during the Q&A. I had just started to babysit my brother, and the ads for that movie would come on and I'd get freaked out. I went to (Blum) with this and MGM was gracious enough to let us do it with them. So we're doing a modern-day version remake, weird meta thing with (it).
Gomez-Rejon is an in-demand second unit director who has worked on movies such as Babel and Argo. He did second unit on Murphys feature Eat Pray Love, which led to him working as a director on Murphys Glee TV show. That put him on the path to direct episodes of American Horror Story.
Gomez-Rejon is repped by WME and Kleinberg Lopez.
Never seen the original, but it sounds interesting. Most intrigued by the choice of director. His episodes of AHS have been incredible. I could see him having quite a career ahead of him.
Trailer of the original:
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