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David Ondaatje will remake THE LODGER

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Monday, August 28, 2006
Source: Production Weekly

According to Production Weekly, David Ondaatje will remake the 1927 silent film THE LODGER.

The original was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a novel by Marie Adelaide Lowndes.

The film will follow a fictional version of the Jack the Ripper killings and production is scheduled to begin sometime early next year in Los Angeles.

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Comments/Responses

• Aug 28, 2006, 03:17am •

eh...Jack the Ripper has been done so many times (even done by Star Trek!) it would take a really good movie to impress me much.

strarscream713 • Aug 28, 2006, 04:10am •

From Hell with ol Johnny Depp was pretty good IMO...

madmanic999 • Aug 28, 2006, 04:48am •

Could be really cool.... From Hell was excellent.

thelastonelives • Aug 28, 2006, 07:32am •

From Hell is one of the few Jack the Ripper tales I actually own, very well done. Great performances by Depp, and Holm.

snallygaster • Aug 28, 2006, 08:16am •

This is actually the fourth time The Lodger will be adapted as a movie. And for those complaining about too many remakes of recent movies today, note that two of The Lodger adaptations were only nine years apart (1944 & 1953). At least this is the first new remake in over 50 years.

It's interesting that they are calling it a remake of Hitchcock's silent movie rather than just an adaptation of the novel...

• Aug 28, 2006, 10:10am •

I've always liked the ripper story, but don't know if I'm up for yet another version.

almostunbiased • Aug 28, 2006, 02:29pm •

I always think it takes big balls to remake a Alfred Hitchcock movie. My favorite ripper one was that one with the time machine. What was that called?

• Aug 28, 2006, 03:28pm •

"Time After Time"... it's my favorite too...

"Pomme frites... french fries are pomme frites!"

• Aug 28, 2006, 07:27pm •

Time after Time was really good, David Warner played a great Jack the Ripper

• Aug 29, 2006, 08:05am •

Please, Movie Gods, hear my prayer! If it is to be a remake, please make it a 100% faithful remake, in black and white and with all of the style and panache of the original without changing a thing instead of the usual diarrhea-fest that occurs with Hollywood "remakes" and "reimaginings"...don't update it! Please leave it a period piece!

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