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Universal Sets Their ‘Scarface’ Reimagining, Scripted by The Coen Brothers
http://collider.com/scarface-remake-coen-brothers/

That's actually got me interested.

Update: THR reports that Hell or High Water director David Mackenzie and Patriot’s Day director Peter Berg are in talks with Universal to helm Scarface. The write-up has some interesting backstory on Mackenzie and Berg’s relationship to the studio and to each other, but for me, the more interesting story is what we’re going to get from a Scarface retelling scripted by the Coens and directed by either Mackenzie, who made a big splash recently with his Neo-Western, or Berg, whose last outing our own Perri Nemiroff said “isn’t an easy watch, but it’s a necessary one – perhaps now more so than ever.” It’s unfortunate that we can’t get both versions!
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Sorry for the double(in the directors thread too), but this just went from Oh Noes, to I'm listening
 
jerseydevil said:
Universal Sets Their ‘Scarface’ Reimagining, Scripted by The Coen Brothers
http://collider.com/scarface-remake-coen-brothers/

That's actually got me interested.



Sorry for the double(in the directors thread too), but this just went from Oh Noes, to I'm listening
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I thought I was having Double Vision *forces himself not to start signing Foreigner*

But, anyways, right? I went from, sheesh, another remake to, hmmm, I might end up welcoming this with Arms Wide Open!

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jerseydevil said:
‘The Fly’ Remake: ‘Sleight’ Director J.D. Dillard In Talks to Direct and Co-Write
http://collider.com/the-fly-remake-director-jd-dillard/#images

You gotta have some stones to think you can bring anything more to the table than Cronenberg's masterpiece accomplished.


Or, you just want to be hacky and use a legendary movie to try to pry a bunch of new cash out of moviegoers unwise pockets.
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At first I thought it said pro wrestling manager J.J. Dillon was going to direct. I'd watch that!
 
The New ‘Power Rangers’ Is An Extremely Bizarre Movie
http://uproxx.com/movies/power-rangers-review/

In the first scene of Power Rangers, we watch Bryan Cranston as Zordon, in full alien makeup, crawling through some sort of hellscape as a world disintegrates around him. Elizabeth Banks then shows up as the evil Rita Repulsa. The two trade some scene-chewing barbs before a meteor slams into both of them, presumably killing them. While watching, I remember thinking, I might like this. In the next scene, set in the present, a character jerks off a bull. (To be fair, he thought it was a cow.)

Power Rangers has one of the most zig-zagged tones of any big budget studio film I’ve seen in a long time. It’s jarring at times how often it goes back and forth between “gritty” and “silly.” Here’s an example: There’s a scene in which Kimberly Hart (Naomi Scott), a.k.a. “the Pink Ranger,” admits that she distributed revenge porn to humiliate a classmate, and now she feels she’s an awful person. Kimberly even goes on to describe in detail how she was forced to sit in a room with the victim’s father and watch this man look at this explicit photo of his own daughter. Not long after this, there’s campy dialogue about “stopping Rita Repulsa from getting to the Krispy Kreme.”

(That’s another thing: The most important location in this movie is a Krispy Kreme. And this isn’t a situation where it had to be a business, so why not just use a real company and make some money off of it in the process. The huge MacGuffin in the movie is at a Krispy Kreme. There’s even a scene in which Rita Replusa stops to eat a Krispy Kreme donut and we, as the audience, just watch her eat it. Corporate product placement doesn’t bother me that much, but at least try to incorporate it into the story.)
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