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re-make

posted 18 years ago by kerr-perry
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Does anyone know if there was a re-make to this movie? If so, who wrote the screenplay or treatment for it?
If anyone has ideas about this, please be sure to post.

[–] thetal1ne 18 years ago

there has not yet been a remake, but a certain high level producer in the US (can't remember the name) already owns the option on the remake. So if you were thinking of doing it yourself, well... that producer beat you to it. : )

Personally, I believe this would only work as an "inspired by" and not an outright remake.

[–] 18 years ago

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[–] isaac32767 18 years ago

It doesn't really matter if the remake is good or bad. What's important is that a remake would mean that the original would finally get released on DVD!

[–] ffonda 17 years ago

The film has been released on DVD in Italy

[–] Arca1943 17 years ago

Any remake of this films is doomed to fail because it is simply impossible to find an actor who can stand comparison with the mad-as-hell, high-voltage performance by Gian Maria Volontè in this movie ! The craziest show of force by any actor on any screen since Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh in the first version of the Bounty !

« There's been a call for a murder.
- Ah. When was that?
- Well, about 10 to 20 minutes.
- Now was it 10 minutes or 20 minutes? (Angry:) It is because of this kind of imprecision that murderers can escape arrest ! (In calmer voice:) You'll see that I'm right when I'm no longer here. »

[–] Invernomuto 16 years ago

in Italian is simply WONDERFUL!
speaks with a very strong Sicilian accent!

we miss you so much Gian Maria

[–] Anna86 15 years ago

yeah we all do!!! :(

[–] overlookfm 15 years ago

Paul Schrader wrote a screenplay for a remake entitled INVESTIGATION in the late eighties. Cannon Films were going to make the film, with Andrei Konchalovsky attached to direct and Al Pacino--making a then screen comeback, having taken a hiatus after REVOLUTION--set to star. The film never materialised and Konchalovsky ended up making TANGO AND CASH instead.

More information here: http://www.cannonfilms.co.uk/

Check out the hyperlink on the left hand side under 'Paul Schrader's Investigation'.

[–] Conspirator_Slash 17 years ago

Remake THIS?! Sacrilege!

Nobody can be as good as Volonté. He was a half-god.

[–] overlookfm 15 years ago

I agree, there's absolutely no reason to remake Petri's original - it's one of my favourite films.

That said, with Schrader involved with the screenplay, it would have been worth seeing at the very least.

[–] Eumenides_0 12 years ago

Paul Schrader was one of the best, smartest and most corageous screenwriters in American cinema's history. I'd trust him to make an interesting remake of this movie, even if surpassing the original is impossible.

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