Casting Begins for Carpenter's GOTHIC

Sounds pretty good. I hope this will get Carpenter back on track.

Good Lord, Carpenter looks like father Time in that pic.

Carpenter hasn't made a single good movie since 1990. It'd be nice to see him finally make a comeback.

Hasn't made a good movie since 1990?

In the Mouth of Madness (great)
Vampires (good)

The rest not so much. (EFLA is a guilty pleasure) I have not seen Village of the Damned so I'm not lumping it in there.

I'm glad he's making another film, but hopefully returning to horror will be a good thing.

Village of the Damned was okay for a remake. Vampires wasn't great. I just hope he can bring back the magic he used to have cause if not be prepared for a crapfest!

Hopefully, he will not only get back on track, but become more prolific.

In the Mouth of Madness was awesome.

Vampires was a lot of fun.

Village of the damned was pretty solid.

Even Memoirs has grown on me.

I would like to see him remake Prince of Darkness and make another Escape film to help me forget L.A.!

I don't know that I'd want a remake of Prince of Darkness, but that is one of my favorite supernatural movies and very underrated. Definitely agree about In the Mouth of Madness also. I'd love to see more Carpenter films, maybe some day he'll get the urge to do The Thing 2. He can bring back both K.Russell and Keith David to conclude the story.

You got to remember like age, stories change with time as well. I do not think you could make a film like Escape or The Thing today and it pull in a decent amount of money.

Those movies fit in that time of the 70's and 80's. In the 90's cinema was finding new tricks and CGI was starting to blow up. I like EVERYTHING he has done. If you go and look at Assualt made in '75 released in '76 and then go and watch Ghosts of Mars I think he has grown quite big as a director and I like his new style.

I am just happy to see him back doing films!

i disagree swansong. i think the thing and escape could easily be redone or pt2/pt3. The thing was essentially about a killer alien who could look like anyone, trying to assimilate (sry spelling?) all those around it and the paranoia that, that would generate. Not sure why that would not work today? Escape once again IMo about a country where the all powerful goverment has suspended a lot of rights and crime has gotten so out of control they just cut off a piece of land and sent every extremely bad element there. The world is on the brink of war and terrorists/freedom fighters take over airforce one and crash it. The president is then held hostage by the criminals. Once again, not sure why that wouldn't work today? Can you expand on your opinion on why these films wouldn't work today?

For the record, The Thing didn't do so well in it's day either.