Switching from one of the most high profile thrillers of all time now to one of the more overlooked mystery films released, screenwriter Jonathan WC Mills replied to Shannon & Swift's thread stating that he'd pitched a remake of The Last of Sheila to Warner Bros. The project sadly never got off the ground but, as Mills notes in his tweet, the success of Knives Out last year may invite the studio to give the project another shot - even if it's not his original pitch.
Remakes are rarely ever not divisive, but there's a lot working in favour of a Last of Sheila reimagining. It's relatively overlooked for starters, and, given the right treatment, it wouldn't be difficult to see how it could work in a post-Knives Out climate.
The basic premise of the film revolves around a movie producer inviting his friends onto his yacht the year after his wife's passing in a hit-and-run incident. A tense mystery then ensues, as all the members of the yacht come to realise that the person who killed the titular Sheila is also onboard the vessel with them.
It's a great film if you can track it down, and one we can probably expect to see grace the big screen again in the future.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
