Hey folks, Harry here - Wired.com is running a story about an 8.5 minute film that it seems is going to be blown up and used at theatrical resolution as part of the Wachowski Brothers' planned remake of THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS at Warner Brothers. The two best versions - Kevin McCarthy and Donald Sutherland - are just about perfect films - and there's a number of Body Snatcher-esque ripoffs that are fun too, including the one I was in, Rodriguez's THE FACULTY. So why retell this tale? I'm not sure, I'd love to find out more on their take of the material - as for now - certainly this excerpt from the short film, THE INNER LIFE OF THE CELL by David Bolinsky - is a helluva treat on its own. Enjoy...
Harry, you silly bastard.
First of all, the film's already done. It's called INVASION, or THE INVASION, or whatever the heck Warner Bros. finally settles on.
The majority of the film was done before Daniel Craig went off to shoot CASINO ROYALE. It was directed by Oliver (THE EXPERIMENT) Hirschbiegel, a pretty groovy German filmmaker. However, after a shitload of testing, the producers brought in The Wachowskis to reshoot the ending and punch up the film a bit.
That's what this guy in WIRED is talking about... his film is obviously going to be used in some fashion during some of the new framework that the Wachowskis reshot. Even the reshoots are already done. This thing's on track to be out at some point this year, and I would expect that with Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman both appearing in THE GOLDEN COMPASS this year together and with Craig now finally an international star thanks to CASINO ROYALE, this will get a big push no matter how it's all finally Frankensteined together.
