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Up next in Michael Bay's quest to leave no spooky classic unremade is Roman Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby."

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Baby and his Platinum Dunes shingle are in negotiations with Paramount to develop a new version of Ira Levin's bestselling novel.

Bay would produce along with Platinum partners Andrew Form and Brad Fuller. No writer is attached.

Levin's book and Polanski's Oscar nominated screenplay focused on a young couple moving into a too-good-to-be-true apartment building in New York. When the woman becomes pregnant, she begins to suspect that something very unsavory (and just a bit occult-y) is afoot, both with her husband and the oddly polite people next door. Unlike The Hollywood Reporter, we aren't going to ruin the entire movie, but let's just say she isn't wrong.

Ruth Gordon won an Oscar for her supporting role in the 1968 film.

The trade paper offers no insight into whether Platinum Dunes has an angle around which to build the remake or if the company just likes remaking things.

Platinum Dunes has had varying degrees of success with previous remakes of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," "The Amityville Horror" and "The Hitcher."

The company now has remakes of "Near Dark," "The Birds," "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th" in various stages of development.

Source: zap2it.com

I guess they really are running out of new ideas.

Appears so! :(  Rosemary's Baby and The Birds are two of my favorite classic horror movies. I really hope they don't destroy them!

One of my favorites was The Haunting (the original).  I hated the remake with a passion. lol

I'm old enough to remember the day and age when Hollywood actually had thoughtful and creative Film makers and Screenwriters creating something new, something that struck at the mind and made you sit in your seat and actually wonder about the original plot line and story line of a Film. The 30's, 40's and 50's from California's Hollywood to Hammer and others in Britain and Europe came out with films and stories that were actually original. A true creation and therefore original artistry instead of the brush over of some previously done work by someone else.

Is it me, or have many of the creative minds died off in the world? There was a day when older veteran Film makers would, dare I use this word, "mentor" new and up and coming Film makers? Heck even the great Roger Corman who is still one of the kings of the quick productions, helped along many of the quality artists in film today. Ron Howard is only one example who has gone very public about the genius of Corman and how he helped so many up the ladder teaching them of the art of film and how it impacted what they do today. The results do show.

After all, Halloween, the Nightmare films, slasher 1,2,3,4,5,6,7... or whatever the name of some previous film that just has to be remade again to drive in more profit at the cost of original thinking. Well, my own feelings are very apparent I would suppose. I'll share a secret as to why that I've never shared before with anyone. In my youth I studied Film making and had been in contact with the likes of some names in California and yes I had planned at points in those days of studying the art at University and breaking into the business headlong, so this is no small matter to my taste. Film really has steered so much throughout our so called modern culture and its impact doesn't always get its due many times.

I do beg forgiveness, truly  :), but when one spends some years engulfed into the minds of some of histories artists the likes of Demille, Menzies (1930's), Wyler and on and on, you begin to get a somewhat regurgitated feeling at all of the hacked remakes when they just seem to be attempts at another redo.

Thanks for the moments patience with me.

Peace>

Allin>

I have also noticed that a lot of horror movies are going straight to video and not even getting a chance on the big screen. Yeah we discussed in another thread, how we feel about movies that go straight to video, but they can't be THAT bad. They aren't even giving them a chance, they could have a new cult classic on their hands, and instead they have to mess with old classics.  :-\

I completely agree. Whatever happened to original thinking? I've had several ideas for screenplays over the years. Some I've "fleshed out" and others still ruminate in the back of my mind.

I did a bit of acting after high school. Had a few bit parts in a few different genres. I quit due to political reasons. ( I don't believe in them  ;) .) There has to be somebody besides the Raimi Brothers in Hollyweird who has an original thought in their heads!

I suspect it is less that they don't have original ideas and more that the studios won't go for anything they don't feel is a sure thing.
I think they don't want to take "risks" with their money.
Silly, really. I think that they would actually make more if they did original things.

 Look at Pirates of the Caribbean.  It made a ton of money (partly because of it being "different" and partly because of Depp). They had no idea that it would happen.
They then fell right back into making sequels because it was a "sure thing".

True, Poppy. But there have also been alot of "sure things" that have flopped in recent years. Especially in the Horror and Sci-Fi genres. I remeber the critics all saying that Reign of Fire couldn't fail at the box office because of the cast. It flopped miserably. Look at the almost dissmal numbers for A vs P ? Yet they still are making another one? So many rehash movies have gone straight to DVD because the production companies see it as more lucrative. While at the same time some really good original concepts are also going straight to disk because the executives have no faith in their own products.

The current state of things in Hollywood are depressing. Maybe the remakes are doing as well as they are because it's more entertaining to watch a remake than it is the "new" stuff coming out.

**  The only exception to this being I Am Legend, which I wasn't all that sure about in the beginning, but I loved it. It was better than the original. (Sorry C.H. ;) ) **

It really is rather depressing. *sighs*

I cannot even bear to think about them ruining Near dark or Nightmare on Elm street, I'm gutted. :(

Oh come on.....Wasn't Nightmare on Elm Street up to 14 or 15.  Hell there was more Freddy movies than Rockey movies.  Oh and don't mess with Hitchcock.  Leave my birds alone..... >:(

I HATED it when they remade Psycho. Ugh! Leave the classics alone guys!!!

6 actually if you don't include New nightmare, but the fact is the first film was amazing and should not be touched. I wish they would pick on the films that really need a remake.

Have to agree heartily here. Perhaps eventually some insightful and creative genius in the Hitchcock spirit will set a new standard for film making that will catch on bringing out some new ideas. I'm beginning to think that many are trying to remain where they think its creatively safe instead of breaking new ground. Who's to say really.

Peace>

Allin>