Robert Downey Jr. is set to star in the remake of “Vertigo – From the Realm of the Dead” – and has already announced that he wants to “outdo” the original. A great promise, because Alfred Hitchcock’s classic is not only for us at FILMSTARTS the best film of all time. In any case, daring to make a remake of such a popular classic shows great courage – which a Marvel director is now trying to muster:
Scott Derrickson turns “The Night of the Hunter” into a new film. Such as, among others, the reports, he will adapt the version that was already published in 1955 Novel by Davis Grubb* based on a screenplay by C. Robert Cargill.
Cargill has been Derrickson’s right-hand man for more than ten years now. He not only provided the script for his horror hit ‘Sinister’, which was simply called the ‘scariest movie of all time’, but also wrote the screenplay for ‘The Black’. Phone,” “V/H/S 85” and Derrickson’s foray into superhero blockbusters “Doctor Strange.”
“The Night of the Hunter”: inspiration for Scorsese, the Coen Brothers & Co.
Hardly anyone would have imagined that 1955’s The Night of the Hunter, almost 70 years later, is still considered a timeless noir milestone and even one of the most important cinema classics of all time, whose upcoming 4K premiere will delight many cinephiles. already are. looking forward to. The film not only failed with critics at the time, but also failed to appeal to audiences – ultimately leading to actor Charles Laughton, making his directorial debut, never returning to the director’s chair.
Today, the first film adaptation is considered a timeless classic that inspired some of the greatest filmmakers of our time – from Guillermo del Toro and Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Spike Lee to Martin Scorsese and the Coen brothers. Will Derrickson also give us a film that we will talk about for years to come – or perhaps even achieve instant success? We shall see. However, we don’t know exactly when yet. A start date has not yet been announced.
This is what “The Night of the Hunter” is about: Ben Harper robbed a bank and killed two men. For this he should be executed now. But before his final hour arrives, he reveals in his sleep to his shady cellmate Harry Powell where he hid his $10,000 loot: with his children. And so, after his release, he quickly heads to Harper’s family to gain their trust and get his hands on the money…