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| Hollywood is about to play another round of Let's Mess with Perfection, judging from reports that Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell are planning on remaking The Evil Dead. The cult hit horror film tells the story of a group of friends who inadvertently unleash evil during a weekend of fun at a remote mountain cabin. One by one, the friends are attacked by the ancient force and turned into zombies, leaving the soon-to-be-iconic Ash Williams as the sole survivor. The film spawned two sequels, launched Raimi's directing career, and made Bruce Campbell's Ash into a cult hero. Raimi will reportedly not direct the remake, and the script will reportedly not be written until a director is lined up. There also isn't word on whether Campbell will be reprising his most famous role, but we hear there's a great idea floating around that would see Ash bitten by a radioactive spider then horribly burned when the cabin explodes, forcing him to invent artificial skin which he can then wear while he fights crime by climbing tall buildings and shooting webbing out of his wrists. |
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Seems Oliver Stone's penchant for mucking about with history has gotten him in some hot water with the Greeks. It has long been something of an open secret that Stone's upcoming biopic of Alexander the Great - cleverly titled Alexander - depicts somewhat controversial aspects of the conqueror's private life, including his sexuality. Now a group of Greek lawyers has sent something called an "extra-judicial note" to Warner Bros and Stone, demanding they put a note in the film's end credits that it is purely fiction or else the lawyers will sue. Yannis Varnakos, spokesperson for the group, said the group respects Stone's right to freely express himself, but wants to ensure the audience knows the director is tampering with history. He added, "We cannot come out and say John F Kennedy was a guard for the Los Angeles Lakers, and so Warner cannot come out and say Alexander was gay." Ironically, the group hit upon a rejected plotline that had Alexander attempting to recruit a young JFK to be his special "intimate" manservant. |
| Is Tom Cruise losing it? That's what the suits at Paramount are beginning to think, given the current status of the third film in the Mission: Impossible series. Cruise is producing as well as reprising his role as agent Ethan Hunt, and while a number of exotic locales and a start date have been set, the film currently doesn't have a script, and Narc director Joe Carnahan, who left the project this summer due to the ever-popular creative differences, has been replaced by first-time film helmer JJ Abrams. The studio fears the budget will spiral out of control, perhaps topping the $200 million mark, especially considering they have been told all ideas for the film are currently in Cruise's head. There are also rumors that Cruise created a trailer, complete with credits and narration, which he has been showing to friends, prompting one insider to point out that trailers generally come after a film is completed, or at least after production has begun, not before the movie has even one shot in the can. Considering how the franchise has gone to date, we vote that Cruise leave the film right where it is. |
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