John Carpenter Reviews, Interviews & More
When rumors of an Escape from New York reboot began a few years ago, Gerard Butler was the actor being considered to star as Snake Plissken, the dark anti-hero originally and indelibly portrayed by Kurt Russell. At the time, Russell stated the casting wouldn’t work as Snake, a quintessentially American character, needed an American actor. Fast forward to this...
It seemed like Snake Plissken was safe for a while there, but not now. For a couple of years, Escape From New York was rumored to be remade, with both Len Wiseman and Breck Eisner attached as a director, and Gerard Butler (who was attached to a great many projects post 300) set to star. None of that happened. But now there's new producers...
Wes Anderson finally let some plot details slip on The Grand Budapest Hotel. He told a Los Angeles newspaper that his film will mostly be set during the late 1920s. It's not a lot of information, but it's more than we knew before. And Anderson finally cast his female lead. Hint: She's very young, and very talented. We also have the first teaser poster for...
Seeing as how a slew of John Carpenter’s classic early films—Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, and The Thing—have generated crappy remakes (well, The Thing remake hasn’t been released yet, but it has generated a really crappy trailer), it stands to reason that one of JC’s crown jewels,...
For a while now there's been rumors of a remake of the John Carpenter cult film They Live. And for a while all horror films seemed to be remakes, with three of Carpenter's films remade, and with a remake of Escape From New York still not totally dead. Director Matt Reeves is taking a page from the John Carpenter handbook. They...
A trailer has been released for legendary director John Carpenter's latest work The Ward. The movie stars Amber Heard as a young woman on the run against truly insane forces. The film shares a lot of similarities with Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch but unfortunately, it doesn't have a U.S. release date yet. We wonder why? Check out the trailer...
Legendary horror director John Carpenter has just agreed to sign on as the executive producer of the upcoming film The Hell Within, which will help this film go from the littler indie that could, to a possibly mainstream horror film. The announcement was just officially made today by Benito Mueller and Wolfgang Mueller of Barry Films, the production company making the...
Over the past year, we've heard bits and pieces about director John Carpenter's upcoming project, Riot. When the film was first announced it was under the working title Scared Straight, which was based off the 1970's documentary of the same name. Nicolas Cage has long been attached to star as the film's lead, in the role of a prisoner turned...
Here are some of the top news stories about what projects are getting off the ground.
Slap Shot, the 1977 sports comedy that starred the late Paul Newman is getting remade. Dean Parisot is set to direct the new version, which will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy. Some of Parisot's previous work includes, Home Fries, Fun With Dick and...
Remakes, remakes, remakes!! According to Variety, another version of the horror classic The Thing is in the works. There have already been two previous versions of the film, based off of the John W. Campbell short story, "Who Goes There." In 1951 Howard Hawks directed The Thing From Another World, and in 1982 John Carpenter came out with...
In the first Horror 101 post I listed ten films the average horror fan may not have seen but should. In this "lesson" I'll discuss writer HP Lovecraft.
What does a horror writer from the 20's and 30's have to do with horror films today? In the case of Lovecraft, a lot. I have not written much about his life and works here, that's what Wikipedia is for. He wrote about horrific...
John Carpenter's, Riot, which still goes under it's original title Scared Straight in most places, just released their movie poster for the film.
