From Fangoria.com:
March 28: Director talks latest FLY remake
You may have stumbled across his name perusing our news headlines here at Fango, but theres little doubt youll be hearing much more about young up-and-comer Todd Lincoln in the next year. Prior to being attached as the director/co-writer of the big-screen adaptation of HACK/SLASH for Rogue Pictures (more on that tomorrow!), Lincoln was ensnared in Fox Searchlights web where he drafted a second remake of THE FLY with his writing partner Martin Schenk.
Favoring the 1958 Kurt Neumann-directed FLY over David Cronenbergs delectable 1986 display of gooey makeup FX trickery, Lincoln revisited the original George Langelaan short story that first appeared in Playboy before embarking on the latest upgrade. What he and his partner wound up hatching was a complete outside-the-box re-imagining, Lincoln tells Fango. It was both a love letter to and a complete departure from Neumann and Cronenbergs films. They already nailed the perfect versions of those stories. There is no good reason to do those approaches again.
So, Lincoln and Schenk scrapped everything the moviegoing audience knows about THE FLYincluding the pair of sequels that stemmed from Neumanns film, and the one from Cronenbergs. Our take had nothing to do with the Delambre family or Seth Brundle, and there are no telepods, Lincoln reveals. This was a completely new story. The style and tone were a dark, smooth mixture of Val Lewton, Don Siegel and Roman Polanski. Someone still became a fly, but who, how, why they became a fly, what the creature looked like and what ultimately happened to itwe conjured totally new scenarios for all those major elements.
Even with so much fresh blood being injected into the concept, Lincoln and Schenk couldnt help but write in a role for 58 FLY leading man David Hedison. But for now, the question bigger than Who the heck is Todd Lincoln, anyway? is the status of Foxs redux. Last I heard, the people behind the people at the studio had changed their minds again and are leaning toward a straightforward remake, Lincoln says. I wish them the best.
March 28: Director talks latest FLY remake
You may have stumbled across his name perusing our news headlines here at Fango, but theres little doubt youll be hearing much more about young up-and-comer Todd Lincoln in the next year. Prior to being attached as the director/co-writer of the big-screen adaptation of HACK/SLASH for Rogue Pictures (more on that tomorrow!), Lincoln was ensnared in Fox Searchlights web where he drafted a second remake of THE FLY with his writing partner Martin Schenk.
Favoring the 1958 Kurt Neumann-directed FLY over David Cronenbergs delectable 1986 display of gooey makeup FX trickery, Lincoln revisited the original George Langelaan short story that first appeared in Playboy before embarking on the latest upgrade. What he and his partner wound up hatching was a complete outside-the-box re-imagining, Lincoln tells Fango. It was both a love letter to and a complete departure from Neumann and Cronenbergs films. They already nailed the perfect versions of those stories. There is no good reason to do those approaches again.
So, Lincoln and Schenk scrapped everything the moviegoing audience knows about THE FLYincluding the pair of sequels that stemmed from Neumanns film, and the one from Cronenbergs. Our take had nothing to do with the Delambre family or Seth Brundle, and there are no telepods, Lincoln reveals. This was a completely new story. The style and tone were a dark, smooth mixture of Val Lewton, Don Siegel and Roman Polanski. Someone still became a fly, but who, how, why they became a fly, what the creature looked like and what ultimately happened to itwe conjured totally new scenarios for all those major elements.
Even with so much fresh blood being injected into the concept, Lincoln and Schenk couldnt help but write in a role for 58 FLY leading man David Hedison. But for now, the question bigger than Who the heck is Todd Lincoln, anyway? is the status of Foxs redux. Last I heard, the people behind the people at the studio had changed their minds again and are leaning toward a straightforward remake, Lincoln says. I wish them the best.
