Genre:
Horror/Remake.
Studio:
Columbia Pictures.
Production Company:
Revolution Studios.
Project Phase:
Script Stage.
Who's In It:
Unknown.
Who's Making It:
Cooper Layne (Screenwriter); John Carpenter, Debra Hill, David Foster (Producers); a remake of the 1980 film THE FOG.
Premise:
Unknown.
Release Date:
Unknown.
Comments:
None.
Scoop Feedback:
October 28, 2004... THE FOG is rolling back into Hollywood. A remake of John Carpenter's creepy 1980 ghost story is in development at Revolution Studios, with screenwriter Cooper Layne (THE CORE, THE EMPEROR'S CLUB) writing the new screenplay. Carpenter and original FOG producer Debra Hill are also involved as producers along with David Foster. Production is scheduled to commence next February.
Carpenter's original movie was set in the sleepy small town of Antonio Bay, and featured an ensemble of actors that included Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jenet Leigh and Hal Holbrook. The story followed the town's one hundredth anniversary and the revelation that the hamlet was founded using gold stolen from lepers whose ship crashed against the rocks outside the town when the elders turned off the lighthouse. Now, on the eve of Antonio Bay's celebrations, the ghosts of the lepers have risen from their watery grave, using a luminous fog bank to move across the water and land.
How much of the original setting, characters and premise of THE FOG will be used for the new version is unclear at the present time. [Variety.]
February 21, 2005... Revolution Studios has hired Maggie Grace and Tom Welling will star in the remake of John Carpenter's "The Fog." The story is set in a Northern California town where, about 100 years earlier, a ship sank under mysterious circumstances in a thick, eerie fog. The ghosts of the deceased seaman return from their watery graves to seek their revenge.
Cooper Layne is writing the script based on the original screenplay by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Rupert Wainwright will direct. Debra Hill, David Foster and John Carpenter will produce. [Hollywood Reporter.]
March 18, 2005... Selma Blair, DeRay Davis and Rade Serbedzija have all signed on for the remake of the horror-thriller "The Fog." Blair will be playing the role originally portrayed by Adrienne Barbeau.
Rupert Wainwright is directing the film for Revolution Studios. Cooper Layne wrote the script.
The story is set in a Northern California town near where a ship sank about 100 years earlier under mysterious circumstances in a thick, eerie fog. The ghosts of the deceased mariners return from their watery graves to seek revenge. Tom Welling and Maggie Grace also star.
[Reuters & Hollywood Reporter.]
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