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I think it’s what’s next

David Cronenberg’s 1983 Videodrome is up for remake (I know because I was invited to a Facebook group called I Protest a Remake of Videodrome). No director yet, but writer is Ehren Kruger, in whom I haven’t got much faith. Arlington Road had a decent premise, and The Brothers Grimm was a reasonably clever script, but Kruger’s other stuff includes Scream 3, Reindeer Games, and Skeleton Key. It strikes me as problematic that any one man’s writings on technology in the modern era should include both Videodrome and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

But then it looks like the new Videodrome isn’t headed in a particularly Cronenbergian direction. Variety’s clipping: The new picture will modernize the concept, infuse it with the possibilities of nano-technology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller.

Let’s check in with David Cronenberg for his thoughts:
“They haven’t called me. In fact, I know nothing about this.”

Comment from David Roth - May 4, 2009 at 3:08 am

Obviously this is not a good idea, and Kruger spells his name in a way I can’t support. But I’ll go on record with this — I think Skeleton Key is pretty good, despite itself. I even think Kate Hudson is pretty good in it. Although the screenplay is the least-good part of the film, by a longshot.