Prequels, Sequels & Remakes

Darren Lynn Bousman will direct the Hellraiser remake. If you're confused, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury were on it, but left.

Tom Atkins has been cast in the My Bloody Valentine remake.

Breck Eisner will be remaking George Romiro’s 1973 antiwar movie Crazies, about a small town that is quarantined and comes under military control when the town goes insane after being exposed to a bioweapon. Eisner says that the military will be more subtle in this one, and play up the individual soldier and the psychosis of the townspeople. "Some of it is violent. Some of it is sexual. Some of it's self-inflicted violence. For me, the scariest movie for me as a kid was John Carpenter's The Thing, and the idea was not knowing who to trust. ... Can you trust your wife? Can you trust your mother? Your brother? That is the fear."

After he finishes on Crazies, Breck Eisner will be remaking Universal’s 1954 Creature from the Black Lagoon. He wants to shoot in The Forest of Mirrors in the Amazon, "I want it to be authentic; I want it to be a sea of green rather than CG."

Even though it hasn't hit theaters yet, Fox has already hired Wanted writers Derek Haas and Michael Brandt for a sequel.

Director Rob Cohen says that The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emporor's marketing machine won't really start until the first trailer's release in June. About the movie he says. "The whole approach is different. The sets are bigger, and they are less digital. It builds on the legacy, but it's a very different movie."

High School Musical 3 will have a U.S. theatrical release October 24, 2008.

Terminator 4 rundown: It's been knocked down from an 'R' to 'PG13,' it'll be the first in the series without the R; Common has been cast as Daniel Dyson, son of Miles Dyson from Terminator 2; according to a Polish newspaper, Polish World Strongman Champion Mariusz 'Pudzian' Pudzianowski is the "next front runner for a Terminator role in the new Terminator movie."

North American rights to the Chris Fisher directed Donnie Darko sequel, S. Darko, have already been picked up by Fox. Seven years after the first Donnie’s sister Samantha (Daviegh Chase reprising her role) and her best friend have visions while on a roadtrip to Los Angeles. The $10 million budgeted movie will start shooting May 18. *sigh* (Thanks to The Oogieboogieman)

Jason Segel says in the new Muppet movie he's writing, “I have a cameo for Charles Grodin in it. It’s a really brilliant cameo, I must say. I’m really proud of it.” If you'll remember, Charles Grodin was the villain, and Kermit's rival, Nicky Holiday in The Great Muppet Caper.

Adam McKay on an Anchorman sequel: "I'm looking to do another movie, I might do this other movie called Channel 3 Billion which is kind of this science fiction/Brazil type comedy. Then after that, Will and I are like let's do Anchorman 2…so you're talking like 2 years maybe we'll do it. But we're going to do it, for sure. We're dying to do it. Unless we can't get the cast together, which is always kind of a tricky thing. But, I think, with that cast we're all friends, so yeah, we want to do it."

Andrew Adamson, while he'll still produce, won't write or direct The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. "So I am taking a long break, actually, about a year off to develop things and do something quite different. First I'm going to just do nothing for a little while. And then there are some things I have on the back burner that I will start writing and some longer term-things that I will probably start, too."

Dances with Wolves sequel The Holy Road is on track to start filming next year… but not with Kevin Coster, he turned it down. It’ll take place eleven years after the first, with Dances with Wolves, Stands With Fist, their children, and the Sioux facing the coming of the railroad.

Tabloid The Sun has, if it's true, a big spoiler for Dirty Harry 6.

Adelaide Clemens and Tim Pocock are cast in the Wolverine movie. It seems Pocock is listed to play young Scott Summers.

Josh Schwartz says he’s working on a script for an X-Men prequel that will focus on a teen (who will be an already established character) going to the Xavier Institute. "I'm very well aware that I'll be bludgeoned by purists, but I love its mythology, and it comes with a pretty hefty paycheck."