Ottman to score new version of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

Now... this would make the fourth version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Dare I ask why?

We have (drumroll please):
The 1956 Don Seigel version.
The 1978 Philip Kaufman version (my personal favorite, and nice to see Leonard Nemoy in a different role).
and the 1993 Abel Ferrara version entitled simply "Body Snatchers"

Additionally, according to IMDB.com, the 1983 film "Frightmare" that is also called "Body Snatchers" but unrelated.

I'm really wondering the point but seeing as hollywood seems determined to remake every movie in existance, now I'm left wondering if we're going to wind up seeing Nicole Kidman walking around naked making alien screeching noises. Hmm... that might actually be interesting. (Now to resume banging my head against the desk).

IMDB also reports that The Faculty is considered a version of Body Snatchers, even though Jack Finney's original story is not credited.

Gee... As if doing the same movie over and over again was wasn't bad enough...

Wouldn't The Puppet Masters, fall into the same list as well?

hey, look at the bright side, at least hollywood recycles

Yeah, but it sure as hell ain't saving the f-n planet.

All of these films such as the Invasion of the Body Snatchers Trilogy, which I don't consider actual remakes at all as they take place in entirely different settings, the Faculty and The Puppet Masters are in effect pictures on aliens controlling or replacing people for the purpose of conquering us from within. It reminds me of an old film called Invisible Invaders. Here aliens reanimated dead people who then wandered about like zombies killing, but with specific purposes that furthered the alien agenda. To me these films are a sort of sub-genre of the zombie genre. I don't consider this film (The Visiting) an actual remake at all, but another in this Alien Possession/Zombie sub-genre. If we can have hundreds of zombie movies why can't we have a few more of these. I dare say there are ideas that have not been fully explored here. I expect they will have something different here whith this film.

By the way there was also a 1945 film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi called The Body Snatcher that had nothing to do with alien pod people well before the 1956 film and of course do not confuse The Puppet Masters with the Puppet Master series of films that has nothing to do with alien invasion either. These similar names always seemed to me to be confusing to everyone except those who really followed the genre and kept track of such things. Now The Visiting sounds like possibly some sort of ghost story just to confuse the issue. It stars Nicole Kidman and this synopsis: A mysterious epidemic is sweeping the world, but it takes one Washington DC psychiatrist to discover that the disease is extraterrestrial in origin. When her son becomes infected, she and a colleague must work together to find a cure, before the entire world is lost... Suggests that although based on the Jack Finney novel The Body Snatchers, which the 1956, 1978 and 1993 films were also based on as with the other films there will be substantial differences.

Yeah, that makes sense, Gazelle024. That premise sounds a lot more enticing to me.

who cares. REALLY I mean this flick has been remade (only??) 4 times, plus Faculty... ok i give up... we've all seen it now its time to either PUT UP or SHUT UP. either you make a legitimate sequel to the 1993 flick or you remake the 1961 'Day of the Triffids', since that only has ONE BBC 6 episode mini series from 1981!!!!
GHEESH PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!