The film, being directed by Fede Alvarez and produced by Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi, has yet to announce any cast members. Let the speculation begin about just who WILL play Ash. Any suggestions?

Padilha spoke with Coming Soon and indulged us: “In the first ‘RoboCop’ when Alex Murphy is shot, gunned down, then you see some hospitals and stuff and then you cut to him as RoboCop. My movie is between those two cuts. How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?”

Read the full interview on ComingSoon.net

What do you think of Padilha’s take? Do you think there’s an entire movie between those two cuts, as described above? Tell us in the comments.

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Cohen was one of the producers of the original film, written by Shane Black and director Fred Dekker, which has become a favorite among monster fans.

The 1987 original centers on a group of young kids who idolize classic monster movies. When they discover that Dracula is real – and seeking a powerful amulet that will allow him to conquer the world – they must do battle with Dracula’s monster hoarde (including a werewolf, the Mummy, the Gill Man, and Tom Noonan as a particularly sympathetic Frankenstein’s Monster) in order to save the world.

Black later on became the highest paid writer of the 1990’s with the Lethal Weapon film series, as well as cult favorite Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and the upcoming Doc Savage adaptation.

Michael Bay, and his partners Bran Fuller and Andrew Form, are currently meeting with writers to develop the story for a modern retelling.

This may seem like an odd choice seeing as Gillespie has never tried his hand at horror, but it’s key to recall the spirit of the original film. Written and directed by Tom Holland in 1985, the film centers around a teenager who discovers that his neighbors are vampires. Although it was definitively a film about vampires, it opted for a lighter, more comical tone than certain gory horror franchises — think The Lost Boys with better make-up and effects. The film relied more on the playful chemistry between the young leads, making it into a coming-of-age story that happened to include bloodsuckers.

Under this consideration, Gillespie could be an ideal candidate to revive that sense of development — in Lars and the Real Girl he plainly depicted the conventionally odd relationship between a young man and a blow-up doll he finds on the internet. For this project, the characters won’t be so clearly delusional, but if he can bring the same sense of heart and earnestness to them, we’ll be in for a treat.

DreamWorks previously hired Marti Noxon to write and produce the film. Genre fans may remember Noxon from her increasingly prominent role in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series. Noxon has been involved with a number of genre television projects in the wake of Buffy, such as the short-lived Point Pleasant, and AMC’s breakthrough series, Mad Men.

No deal has officially been signed by Gillespie, but we’ll follow the story and update you if and when it becomes official.

Written by Ronald D. Moore and directed by Matthijs van Heijningen, the film begins shooting this month in Vancouver, Canada. While the creators have acknowledged that the film is directly related to the original, they have thus far kept coy about whether it’s a sequel, a prequel, or a direct remake. Thankfully now Joel Edgerton, one of the film’s leads, has revealed the true nature of the film.

In an interview with What’s Playing, Edgerton said the following:

“Anyone who is a big fan of the John Carpenter version of The Thing knows that it starts on the American base station, but the investigation of where the Thing has come from leads us to know something very bad has happened at the Norwegian base station, and the prequel centers itself around there and what happened pre-Kurt Russell.”

That sound you hear is the entire collective of fans breathing a sigh of relief. The only issue now is being able to avoid the inherent predictability of framing this story as a prequel. We already know roughly what will happen to the Norwegians — (Spoilers!) they’ll find the UFO, the alien will replace one of them, paranoia, blood and chaos will follow. But we’re going to elect to trust the script from former Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore to provide enough unexpected twists and turns to keep it exciting. With Galactica, he took a short-lived but still-beloved story and gave it a unique, modern twist that reinvigorated the storytelling. Maybe he can do the same here.

Hopefully they decide to use animatronics and practical effects, especially for the gory details, because the effects created by Rob Bottin in Carpenter’s version were amazing. Some CGI is inevitable, but the handmade nature of the monster in the original made it all the more terrifying.

Overall, it’s hard not to be skeptical, but maybe it’s best to remember that Carpenter’s “original” was itself a re-imagining of the 1951 Howard Hawks-Christian NyBy film The Thing From Another World. For that matter, both are technically adaptations of the novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr. Maybe this story is just as timeless as it is fatalistic. As long as the people telling it remain talented, then that’s okay by us.

Here’s the international trailer for Warners’ upcoming remake of Clash of the Titans, which will be released in 2D and 3D on March 26.

And yes, there’s quite a bit more “Clashing” in this trailer, but more importantly a few performance moments with action-star-du-jour Sam Worthington as Perseus, current-shorthand-for-ultimate-villain Ralph Fiennes as Hades and movie-god Liam Neeson as Zeus. Not to mention a whole mess of James Bond alumnus!

As well as a heavy dose of monster-mania… Gotta love giant scorpions, tree people, etc. Get a load of that Kraken – nice how the new design manages to nod its head back to Harryhausen’s Ymir-inspired beastie of the original 1981 film.

Thanks to IGN for posting.

Directed by Breck Eisner (Sahara), the remake stars Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell as a husband and wife in a small Midwestern town find themselves battling for survival as their friends and family descend into madness. A mysterious toxin in the water supply turns everyone exposed to it into mindless killers and the authorities leave the uninfected to their certain doom.

The Crazies opens February 26.

Speaking with Sci-Fi Wire, Jackie Earle Haley – playing Freddy Krueger in the upcoming remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street – commented on December’s recent reshoots for the film.

“We did do some re-shoots over the Christmas holidays, and I feel really good about that,” Haley said, during a group interview promoting his new television series Human Target, for Fox. “Just some re-shoots and tweaks that I think are probably customary for pretty much every movie that gets made,” Haley continued.

After test screenings last fall, many have speculated on the nature of the reshoots, wondering if they were any indication that the film was in trouble.

Concerns have also arisen in some circles over Haley’s voice, as heard in early trailers. “We’re still working on it,” Haley said. “There’s still more [ADR] stuff to do, so it’s an ongoing process, I think, until it comes out.”

Head over to Sci-Fi Wire for the full interview!

A Nightmare on Elm Street debuts April 30.

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The currently untitled film, to directed by Matthijs Van Heijningen, from a script by Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica) and Eric Heisserer (the upcoming A Nightmare on Elm Street remake), would follow the Norwegian expedition that first unearthed the space-borne shapeshifter in Carpenter’s version.

Both films are based on the original 1951 Howard Hawks/Christian Nyby classic The Thing From Another World, itself based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr.