Production Weekly is reporting that writer/director
David Ondaatje is set to remake the early
Hitchcock silent movie
The Lodger. The movie was based on a novel by
Marie Adelaide Lowndes and was a fictional take on the
Jack "The Ripper" Killings. More info taken from
Cinematical..
"the film will examine a series of mysterious, Ripper-esque killings from two different points of view. The first is that a of a detective who is both trying to solve the case and dealing with the fact that he's one of the prime suspects in the killings; the second comes from a landlady, who becomes increasingly convinced that one of her tenants is the killer". For the most part, I hate remakes. I hate them with a vengeance. I'm dredding seeing
The Wicker Man remake this week because everything I have seen from trailers etc, it looks like they have butchered the whole essence of the original. For some reason though I like the sound of this remake. I had never heard of the original silent movie until today, so I can see that their would be potential in remaking the movie in sound and in colour with a new take. It is possible for remakes to be good but they have to be both respectful and add something new to the original which is extremly hard to pull off, and only a few have managed it. Let's hope it's better than
Gus Van Sant's shot by shot remake of Hitchcock's classic
Psycho anyway. source -
production weekly,
cinematical