Don’t Look Now (really, don’t look now!) is getting a Hollywood remake
Team behind Liam Neeson action films and Scary Movie 3 take on Donald Sutherland classic
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Your support makes all the difference.With its cleaver-wielding dwarf and a sex scene that raised questions over whether it was real, Nicolas Roeg’s atmospheric horror film Don’t Look Now earned its place in cinematic history.
But the 1973 British classic has become the latest film set to undergo a Hollywood remake with the production company behind Liam Neeson action thriller Non-Stop poised for a modern take on it.
The original starred Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as a grieving couple who are haunted by images of a little girl in a red mackintosh following the death of their daughter.
Set mostly in Venice, the psychological thriller featured a sex scene so intimate that the debate over whether Sutherland and Christie actually had intercourse continues to persist.
The film was based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier whose The Birds and Rebecca were brought to the silver screen by Alfred Hitchcock.
StudioCanal have announced plans for a modern take with Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman on board to produce.
Rona’s previous titles also include Scary Movie 3 and Dracula.
The news has been greeted with a mixed response by fans, with some claiming it was “crying out” for a remake while others worry it is a terrible idea.
There has been a recent trend for remakes of much-loved films in Hollywood with The Stepford Wives, Annie, Robocop and Godzilla among the latest titles to crop up decades after the originals.
However, remakes don’t necessarily make guaranteed success stories as research by Vocativ suggests that of the 223 remakes made over the past 20 years, more than half (56 per cent) make less money that the originals.
The biggest remake success stories include 1998’s Godzilla which outdid the 1954 version by $150 million and Ocean’s Eleven (2001) which made $146 million more than the 1960 version.
But among the worst remake flops is the 1998 rendering of Hitchcock’s Psycho which grossed $224 million less than its 1960 original.
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