And Yet Another Remake – Fright Night

Just yesterday it featured in Martyn’s Top Ten Vampire Films, today it’s back again, yes, FRIGHT NIGHT is getting the remake treatment!

According to THR, “Mad Men” writer-producer Marti Noxon has been signed to pen the script for Dreamworks’ remake of the 1985 original:

Before her work on AMC’s “Mad Men,” Noxon was a writer-producer on the bloodsucker series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel,” so fangs and stakes are in her blood.

Producers Michael De Luca, Michael Gaeta and Alison Rosenzweig set up the “Fright” project in May. DreamWorks executive Mark Sourian is overseeing for the studio.

The original “Fright,” released in 1985, was written and directed by Tom Holland and starred Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall and William Ragsdale. Ragsdale played a teenager who discovers his neighbors are vampires.

The new version will keep the comedy-horror tone while modernizing the effects.

It seems every other project coming out of Hollywood at present is another remake, not one requested by the audience, but thrust upon them by an industry devoid of imagination. What do you think? Will Fright Night be yet another worthy addition to the remake pool or are we looking at another dead weight?

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