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Gordon spies 'Look' remake
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com
By Gregg Kilday
Mark Gordon is planning to produce a remake of "Don't Look Now" for Paramount Pictures.

The 1973 film, directed by Nicolas Roeg and based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier, created a sensation in the early '70s thanks to a highly erotic love scene featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie.

Andrea Berloff will write the screenplay for the adaptation, which centers on a couple, John and Laura Baxter, who go to Venice, Italy, to recuperate after the sudden death of their daughter only to encounter strange visions that suggest their daughter's presence.

Gordon is producing through his Mark Gordon Co., with senior vp Josh McLaughlin overseeing for the Mark Gordon Co.

Paramount executives Wendy Japhet and Edward Goemans are overseeing for the studio.

McLaughlin said he and Gordon took the arrival of the new production team at Paramount as an opportunity to review titles in the Paramount library with an eye toward remakes. "I've always been a big fan of 'Don't Look Now,' and we thought it was a movie that could be updated. We owe a lot to Andrea Berloff, who (took the idea) and hit the ground running with the movie's ideas of death and life and looking for something just beyond life."

The original film, Gordon added, "was very much of its time, with a lot of atmospherics that wouldn't necessarily work today. But it has a great idea and a wonderful backdrop and setting. We hope to take the feeling of the story, continue to set it in Venice and make it contemporary."

Gordon recently completed filming "Casanova," starring Heath Ledger and directed by Lasse Hallstrom, for Walt Disney Studios in Venice, and despite the logistical challenges the waterlogged city presents, he hopes to return there to film "Don't Look Now." "The setting is part of what made the original movie," Gordon said.

smudge

Given the pretty poor state of a high number of modern re-makes (ITALIAN JOB/ALFIE etc...) perhaps this one should simply be called, "DON'T LOOK !"

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SMUDGE

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Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...

ollie

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cheers Ollie.

"Bullseye !!"

Clinton Morgan

That's complete arsehole speak of the highest Peter Bazelgatte order. It sounds similar to bitter television producers who are fed up of being expected to come up with the goods. The usually give Television Society speeches on the lines of "We must not look at the past with rose tinted glasses after all 'Civilization' was a bit boring and today 'Steptoe and Son' comes across as being a bit slow." And then near the end of the speech talk about how today's televison, the one they happen to be working in, is television at its best. As Mike S wrote on 'The Mausoleum Club', " Of course there is a Golden Age of Televison, it is the one I'm working in right now." So who's wearing the rose tinted glasses.

Why do we denigrate past films? What purpose does it serve.

Updating films, my arse.

David Challinor

...remaking Don't Look Now!!!!! Is NOTHING sacRED!!!!!