The Howling Transforms into a Remake

[The Apatow Crew]

Dante's 'The Howling' Transforms into a Remake?
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Short but sweet news over at iFMagazine, according to creator Joe Dante another remake is on the way... this time The Howling. "They are definitely going to do it, because people keep calling me asking about who owns the rights to it.," Dante tells the online mag. In the original, after a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem. More details as it comes in, sounds like this one might still be ways downt he road.

The remakes just keep on coming boys and girls.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/index.php?Show=6757&Template=newsfull

 

[WorthyStevens]

Oh god, not another remake.

I can't take anymore of this.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Oh god, not another remake.

I can't take anymore of this.

You know what to do then.

 

[ZER0C00L]

oh boy

 

[Mr. Credible]

oh my god!!! not the howling! it's a classic! rawr!










geez, guys... it's the freaking howling... who cares? it'll be just as corny as the original, with better effects and gore.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

i guess the reason there doing it cause people wanna see it.

 

[jaguarr]

Hollywood is out of original ideas.

jag

 

[TheSaintofKillers]

oh my god!!! not the howling! it's a classic! rawr!










geez, guys... it's the freaking howling... who cares? it'll be just as corny as the original, with better effects and gore.

Better effects ? I very much doubt it.
It'll probably turn out in a teen slasher babes of the week with badly rendered 3D werewolves...

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

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"You're hired."

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Hollywood is out of original ideas.

jag

What you didn't know that already?

 

[jaguarr]

What you didn't know that already?

Oh, I knew it. I just get tired of seeing it over and over again.

jag

 

[TheSaintofKillers]

Hollywood is out of original ideas.

jag

What is sad is that they probably are NOT out of original ideas. There are so many great talented young people yet to be seen or used everywhere around the world. Hollywood could easily assemble great crews and yound talent for a bunch of potentially great horror movies if they wanted to.

But they have become lazy, and they know that these japanese remakes and the old classic remakes are easy money, no matter the quality. It's because the people are stupid enough to go see them that Hollywood seems out of idea.

I'd say it's the USA all around that stopped caring about original ideas in movies.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I bet hollywood guess something like this.

Hey sir i have a original idea.

Original idea we don't do those around here your fired.

now somebody get me a movie from either the 70's or 80's s owe ca nremake it then.

 

[jaguarr]

What is sad is that they probably are NOT out of original ideas. There are so many great talented young people yet to be seen or used everywhere around the world. Hollywood could easily assemble great crews and yound talent for a bunch of potentially great horror movies if they wanted to.

But they have become lazy, and they know that these japanese remakes and the old classic remakes are easy money, no matter the quality. It's because the people are stupid enough to go see them that Hollywood seems out of idea.

I'd say it's the USA all around that stopped caring about original ideas in movies.

When I say Hollywood, I mean the a-hole studio producers who greenlight films. Of course there are a ton of original scripts out there that would make fantastic films. But, as you so smartly noted, they're lazy and greedy. Their only interest is in what will be sure fire formulaic hits that require very little in the way of true creativity. Things that have ready made templates like remakes and watered down versions of Asian Cinema films foot that bill. Throw in some modelesque stars with minimal talent that they've pimped too the moon (think Paul Walker and Jessica Alba types) and they've got a surefire hit. It's sad, too, because the films with original ideas and screenplays that do manage to get made despite all this tend to actually do pretty well. People genuinely like these original stories and films, but the marketing people put all their energy and budgets into the lesser quality fare and get the people with low standards and $9 burning a hole in their pocket to go see it, which is distressing. I think America has truly allowed itself to be dumbed down by the marketing and hype machines in this country (entertainment, advertising, industry propaganda and political BS). The lack of cognitive thinking in the U.S. is what's saddening and worrisome to me.

jag

 

[Majik1387]

Last I checked the original was terrible. Why bother with a remake?

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Last I checked the original was terrible. Why bother with a remake?

i guess if something sucks the first time. there's always room for better stuff in a newer version.

 

[Golgo-13]

This movie will be a wasted re make. Just give us a kick as DOG:SOLDIERS sequel.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Hollywood is out of original ideas.

jag

Of course it isn't.

The people who come up with the ideas are not the people who decide which films get made.

 

[The Chairman]

The Howling, as cheesy as it was, is a classic and doesn't need to be remade.

 

[Bat Attack]

I am starting to despise Hollywood, honestley what are they going to do when they run out of movies to remake? Remake the remakes?

 

[jaguarr]

Of course it isn't.

The people who come up with the ideas are not the people who decide which films get made.

See Post #14.

jag

 

[Mr. Credible]

i get sick of saying this... but Hollywood is, before anything else, a business, not a "let's produce new ideas factory"

they go with what is "statistically proven" to make money. they always have, more or less, and always will. that's just the way it is.

i'm not saying it's right, but neither is the fact that a bottle of water costs 84 cents at wallmart, and $3.50 at the movies... BUT THAT'S BUSINESS!!!

 

[jaguarr]

i get sick of saying this... but Hollywood is, before anything else, a business, not a "let's produce new ideas factory"

they go with what is "statistically proven" to make money. they always have, more or less, and always will. that's just the way it is.

i'm not saying it's right, but neither is the fact that a bottle of water costs 84 cents at wallmart, and $3.50 at the movies... BUT THAT'S BUSINESS!!!

True, but the reality is that usually whatever the studios decide to put their marketing muscle behind usually makes pretty decent money, even the dumbed-down crap-ola. And most of the fairly original films that do get produced tend to make decent money these days.

jag

 

[CrimsonMist]

i prefered American Werewolf in London over this one. I didnt like The Howling at all. I hated the transformation sequence in it. The dude just stood there and didn't move. And i thought the humor wasnt funny at all. It would just randomly come. It wouldn't flow through the film.

but a remake isnt neccessary. This and The Wolfman remake...god, this **** is terrible.

 

[tzarinna]

I loved the first one,no matter how cheesy it was
It just oozes 80s