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[shantyman]

John Moore has become bedeviled by "The Omen 666."
Moore, who directed "Behind Enemy Lines" and "Flight of the Phoenix" for 20th Century Fox, has been set by the studio to helm a remake of the 1976 horror classic about the arrival of the Antichrist in the home of an unsuspecting family.

Dan McDermott is writing a script that contemporizes the tale. Project is on a fast track, as the studio has set a tentative Oct. 3 start date, with 20th prexy Hutch Parker and Peter Kang overseeing.

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[bob_arctor]

I wonder if they remade the entire trilogy would Dubya play the grown-up President Damien.
Also, this will suck. Hard.

 

[Baron Aloha]

For the most part, I don't mind remakes, but this one I have a serious problem with.

I'm a pretty big horror fan and The Omen movies, especially the first two, are classics and they've held up perfectly to this very day. I can watch them and it doesn't even feel like I'm watching an old movie. They've held up that well. They are filled with suspense, dread, tension, scares, you name it. And the music is spooky as hell.

There is no chance the remakes will be even 1/10th as good as the originals. Why are these movies being made? I know its been said before...but no wonder box office ticket sales are down.

 

[DarienA]

Final Conflict was... quickly running out of steam... but... I loved Damian's last speech as he's dying...

Nazarene, you have won... nothing...

 

[bob_arctor]

For the most part, I don't mind remakes, but this one I have a serious problem with.

I'm a pretty big horror fan and The Omen movies, especially the first two, are classics and they've held up perfectly to this very day. I can watch them and it doesn't even feel like I'm watching an old movie. They've held up that well. They are filled with suspense, dread, tension, scares, you name it. And the music is spooky as hell.

There is no chance the remakes will be even 1/10th as good as the originals. Why are these movies being made? I know its been said before...but no wonder box office ticket sales are down.

I often wonder what was it about the 70's that allowed horror movies to flourish. Then I think it must have been the quality of drugs back then. The Omen, the very first one, is one of the best horror films ever made and it's a shame that a younger generation may know only of this upcoming abomination. I really do hope they try to stay as close as possible to the original (I'm wary about the "contemporizing" mentioned) and at the very least they need to leave the "It's all for you, Damien!" scene completely intact.

 

[FortNinety]

I'm just shocked that it HASN'T been remade thus far.

 

[D2M15]

So that's The Wicker Man, Don't Look Now, and Omen accounted for - any word on whether Rosemary's Baby is up for being ruin- ah, contemporised too?

 

[FoneBone]

I think a TV remake of that was announced a while back. Whee!

 

[D2M15]

I knew I shouldn't have asked.