Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. A dark, twisted, cynical side of me was waiting for this news of a remake of David Cronenberg's remake of THE FLY because I could then pull out "Be afraid. Be VERY afraid" for the headline. But then David Cronenberg went and fucked that up for me. Thanks, Dave.
A remake/reimagining/reworking/whatever of THE FLY is indeed in the works according to Steven Zeitchik at Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business Blog, but it's being spearheaded by David Cronenberg himself. Word is he's directing and potentially writing this reboot.
I actually went to LA to see his bizarre opera based on THE FLY. I don't know if it was worth the north of $200 ticket, but I did enjoy myself.
I'm curious about this project. A part of me doesn't want to see Cronenberg going back to the well and a part of me is giddy as a schoolboy to see him tackle a big scale FLY movie again. Does this mean we're going to see Viggo Mortensen as Seth Brundle? Or will Cronenberg be fucking awesome and just pull Jeff Goldblum away from that cop show? Or will Seth Brundle even exist in the remake?
It might be better to go a whole new direction just as he did in the original remake. I do demand acid vomit melting off some douchebag's foot, though.
So, yeah. We'll see how this progresses.
-Quint
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