Thursday, September 16, 2010

Hollywood, they're called writers...

 
   Joe Strummer once had a great lyric. "If you're out there gettin' the honey, then you don't go killin' all the bees." Apparently that's Hollywood's plan for Screen Writers as another wave of remakes and reshufflings inches closer to the silver screen.
   Forfeiting the creativity of genuine authors in favor of in-house script revisors and re-writers, Studios are planning to rehash The Blob (this would be for a 3rd edition), An American Werewolf in London (The first was great, just rent the damn thing), Japanese Manga classic Akira, and Child's Play, amongst others.
   Those are all decent movies in their own right, but none among them are worthy of a remake. NONE. Or should I say none deserve the shame of a remake?  How about we find 2011's own horror or anime classic? No? Too much work? Or are studio types not yet willing to admit how much they owe to genuinely creative people?

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