David Cronenberg to reboot 'The Fly'.....wait, what?
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SabinFigaro
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Jeff Goldblum or bust.
Anticitizen One
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Cornenberg has finally joined all the other 80s directors (spielberg, lucas, Zemeckis, burton, cameron, etc.) in jumping the shark. Expect CGI whackyness.
GrotesqueBeauty
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Crispin Glover. C'mon Cronenberg, doooooooooooooo it.saiftk said:
If anyone else was writing and directing I would be totally against this, but if Cronenberg actually has full creative control I'm curious to see how it would turn out.
Stop bumping threads from 1985.
On topic though the original Fly sequel the Return of the Fly may have one of the best trailrs in existence. At one pointt it features Vincint Price wondering something along the lines of the main character "has the sensable mind of a human, or the murderous mind of a fly" :lol
On topic though the original Fly sequel the Return of the Fly may have one of the best trailrs in existence. At one pointt it features Vincint Price wondering something along the lines of the main character "has the sensable mind of a human, or the murderous mind of a fly" :lol
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AkuMifune said:
Michael Cera or bust.
DreD said:wut?
They did make a sequel... and as you can probably guess, it's shit.
I watched both movies when I was a kid. The scene with the dog in the sequel freaked me the fuck out.
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Alphahawk said:
Cera, Shia and Megan Fox. Make it happen Cronenberg.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
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I love Cronenberg but The Fly was a very well made film what he should do is remake Scanners.
With a proper budget and script this thing would make my head explode.
With a proper budget and script this thing would make my head explode.
beelzebozo
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Dan said:
the cronenberg of 10-20 years ago is definitely in my short list of favorite directors, too. he's doing a lot of very different sort of stuff lately, and a revisiting of THE FLY does not really fit his new modus operandi. i just don't think it'll happen.
that said, i miss the cronenberg who made movies like THE FLY, VIDEODROME, EXISTENZ, DEAD RINGER. . . hell, even THE DEAD ZONE had some of that signature cronenberg touch (the scissors, aiyeeeee!!).
Dirtyshubb
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The Fly i sone of my all time greatest films, used to watch it as a kid with my dad, and as expected this is another film i just cant see the need in rebooting it.
I just think the plan for every reboot is to try and turn it into a franchise so they can milk it for all its worth. You wait, once he goes full Fly he is gonna decide to be a superhero and fight spiderman in the sequel! Makes complete sense
I just think the plan for every reboot is to try and turn it into a franchise so they can milk it for all its worth. You wait, once he goes full Fly he is gonna decide to be a superhero and fight spiderman in the sequel! Makes complete sense
B_Rik_Schitthaus said:
Hah hah, I see what you did there
And I agree, there are several other Cronenberg flicks that would make for better remakes than "The Fly". Much like "The Thing", it was a remake that got it right, and was in that perfect spot where FX wasn't ruined by early shoddy CGI.
Anasui Kishibe
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this better have something like this
Messypandas
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the fly is a great romance flick, the horror doesn't work well if you don't establish the passion between the leads. The original film is perfect he shouldn't sully it with this. Unnecessary
Jumpman Jr.
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The Fly needs more Viggo.
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beelzebozo said:
Cronenberg handled an opera adaptation of the Fly last year, so it's apparently a story he's quite hooked on...
Freedom = $1.05
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This thing has no buzz going for it.
mrkgoo said:
So I finally procured a copy of the Fly (and Fly II), and got to revisit it.
Man, what an awesome movie. Pure 80's, but still so well done. The make up and creature design is truly hideous.
Also, the movie is hilarious:
"I'm finally onto something big ... HUGE!"
"Yeah, what .. his cock?"
:lol Delivery was perfect.
Also Jeff is so awesome. I was half expecting 80's cheesiness, but the movie delivers.
*Brundlefly barfs vomit on a doughnut*
Jeff: "Oh, that's disgusting."
*Brundlefly points to lump in side*
Jeff: "What's this?" *shrugs* "I dunno" *smiles*
Also lol at Brundlefly talking about children's books about how brundlefly eats.
I actually saw this movie after the screenwriter (apparently an alum of my college) gave a speech. The speech was pretty great--he wrote Dragonheart, apparently, the Sean Connery/CGI dragon movie and spewed nothing but pure venom towards the director and producers of the film. Recommended also that we seek out its novelization. The guy also wrote Psycho II and talked about how wonderful that movie was and it was more or less autofellatio for forty-five minutes.
But damn, did The Fly creep me out. The visual metaphor for AIDs was really eerie, Goldblum played his character perfectly, and the romance between the leads, as previously noted, felt incredibly real and non-stagey.
I haven't seen a ton of Cronenberg's early films--just this, Videodrome, and The Dead Zone--but I do want to contribute that A History of Violence was easily my favorite movie of whichever year it came out. I still get unsettled thinking about parts of it.
But damn, did The Fly creep me out. The visual metaphor for AIDs was really eerie, Goldblum played his character perfectly, and the romance between the leads, as previously noted, felt incredibly real and non-stagey.
I haven't seen a ton of Cronenberg's early films--just this, Videodrome, and The Dead Zone--but I do want to contribute that A History of Violence was easily my favorite movie of whichever year it came out. I still get unsettled thinking about parts of it.
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