John Moore directing another frikkin' remake

by Matt Holmes

HACK director John Moore who has already helmed remakes to The Omen and Flight of the Phoenix, has according to Variety set plans to redo the 1978 Peter Hyams directed conspiracy thriller Capricorn One over at New Regency.

The original movie was about a fictional first manned mission to Mars which was actually just a hoax on the public as the astronauts really went to a film studio in the desert as the NASA ship wasn't 100% safe to fly off to the planet, and they didn't want to inform the taxpayers about their failures. The astronauts are under pressure on the set to make the landing as believable as possible, whilst Elliott Gould plays the journalist who has a sneaking suspicion that something fishy is going down. Peter Buchman, who wrote Steven Soderbergh's two-part Che Guevara biopic has penned the screenplay.

Such a pointless remake but doesn't that sum up Moore's whole filmography so far?

He is next directing Max Payne with Mark Wahlberg which is due out in October. Can't say I'm looking forward to that either.

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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.