Another remake...

[Mark Mays]

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Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: Another remake...


> but there just might be a glimmer of hope with this remake. The producer
who bought the remake
> rights is Sam "Evil Dead" Raimi. He is having Takashi Shimizu direct it.
And the story is with an
> American couple in Japan who get caught up in th"Grudge". They plan to
play with culutral differences
> and alienation along with the supernatural threat. As one preson I know
from the Japanese
> productin crew explained to me, "If you see a ghost, how can you go to the
police to explain when you
> can't speak the language?" Surprised to hear about Gellar being cast as
they were originally going to
> go with lesser known leads in order to keep the budget down.
>
> that's my insider scoop.
>
> colin geddes
>

Which in a way takes us back to the question of impact on Japanese films, we
were sort of ignoring a couple of 800 pound gorrillas, namely RING and The
Matrix Trilogies. RING and it's success here in the states are more
significant to the industry than the currently discussed three films.

There's been some discussion of the Matrix and "anime" influences on the
list already.