Videodrome
Hollywood is so damned creatively bankrupt. Universal is now developing a remake of Videodrome, which just so happens to be my favorite film of all time. This masterpiece written and directed by David Cronenberg is now being updated to involve nanotechnology while the plot is being turned into some kind of large scale sci-fi action-thriller. It seems like the hired writer Ehren Kruger (who most recently co-wrote Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen…) doesn’t even understand that Videodrome might not be entirely literal. And what the fuck does nanotech have to do with media consumption anyway? I’d be laughing my ass off this weren’t so offensively stupid.
To top it off, the short little blurb Variety uses to describe the original is completely and factually inaccurate.
Argh.
Long live the new flesh!
