The Next Day

"They want to do 'Murder By Decree' but I won't let them..."

After mentioning the scrapped, borrowed, and scrapped status of a Deathdream remake, a short note on the other Bob Clark remake projects.

Clark, along with his son Ariel, was killed by a drunk driver on April 4th. Days before, he had participated in a enlightening and entertaining roundtable of directors, hosted by Quentin Tarantino, to discuss filmmaking on the eve of Grindhouse's release.

Glen Morgan's remake of Clark's seminal 1974 Black Christmas came out on Christmas last year. It was critically panned and opened poorly, ending up with a take of about $16 million on a $9m budget.

Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things was Clark's own project, re-envisioning his first major film. It had been well into the pre-production stages, with scripting and some preliminary casting done (Adam Beach was set to lead).

Howard Stern's production company announced plans to remake Porky's in 2002, with teen sex comedies back on the rise thanks to American Pie. The script has gone through numerous drafts and has been reannounced from time to time. Officially, it's still in the works.

Porky's spawned two sequels and a videogame.