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Has this movie been remade in Hollywood yet?


I'd really like to see it..
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/anders from sweden

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I have heard that M. Night Shyamalan (director of Signs and The Village) is going to make a hollywood movie of this Swedish film.
I hope it's true...

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It was announced last month that Disney has picked up the US version, to be helmed by director David Goyer (Blade Trinity). Production starts this September.
Here's the URL for the article on comingsoon.net: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=10168
And here's the URL for the IMDb page: http://imdb.com/title/tt0435670/

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can someone tell me..why do a remake on swedish films?"Like my life as adog" for example..that serie sucked..the movie was much beter.They are good as they are..especially this one.

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i am watching this movie right now and it is so cool!! words cannot describe how good this movie is. if anyone knows how to buy it in australia please let me know!!!

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chachaparismonkey2 yeah i just watched it on SBS...i saw it ages ago, and wanted it...

Why make a remake? i bet the remake will be *beep*

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i know! i went to dymocks today and they said it hasnt been released?!!
so anyone out there pls keep me updated!
thanks

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I saw it on SBS too - I really want it. How come nowhere in Aus sells it?

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Yeah i've watched it on SBS twice now. I thought it was superb. Very hearfelt, moving & extremely well acted. I just saw the trailer for the US version & it looks generic Hollywood.
i want the Swedish version on DVD as well.

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The scandinavian DVD release of DEN OSYNLIGE, aka THE INVISIBLE (2002) contains embedded english subtitles, as well as the Academy Award nominated short film VICTOR (1988). The DVD can be purchased internationally from any of the two following stores:

www.dvdsverige.com

http://english.megastore.se/

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How dare they even attempt to remake this fantastic film.

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I believe they just made a hollywood version of it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435670/

Just watched the trailer, it looks good.

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This makes me really angery. What's the point of Remakes? Do who ever is sponsoring this "new" pic, add something to the story ? I whould guess that is not the case, then I ask myself, why make this film "again"?

I understand why one might be interested in remaking old or otherwise severly out of date films. (But i'll be the first to agree on the fact that this seldom does the original justice).

this film is not out of date nor is it old, the only reason for some production company to "remake" this film would be to expose it to the US (and other english speaking markets). This is really unfair, both to the makers of the original (who is robbed of having their film showcased) and to the english speaking audience that is reduced to fools whom are assumed incapable of reading subtitles and need the cultural eqvivalens to pre-chewed baby food, whitch of course is not the case.
However if one was to Hop on to this train of thought, one could just as well do a bunch english Bergman remakes, what is the english translation of "Sjunde inseglet?" Haaha

Instead of a remake thay should have distrubuted the original swedish film to the US maket. And in doing so given it and it's future english speaking audience a lot more respect.

in the words of Forest Gump: well, that's all i have to say about that.

( Even though i spent a good 20 mins writing this reply, i just realised that I didn't like this film all that much. It odd what you get your self in to in order to stop studying...)

//Kristoffer (swedish by the way)

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While I agree with some remakes being crap, there are a few that are as good or better than the originals. ("The Departed" was just as good as "Infernal Affairs.")

I, too, loved Den Osynlige. However, the screenplay was written by an American who sold his script to a Swedish company. It is his script (although I'm sure tweaked) that is also being used in the American remake. So to say that the remake is robbing the makers of the original is incorrect. Also, the company that made the film had to sell the rights to the US production company. If they didn't want the film remade, they wouldn't have sold it. It's not like the US stole this movie out from under them.

That said, yes, remakes are done to expose an audience to a great story. (This is probably a benefit for the original writers because their stories now get exposed to a wider audience.) Anyway, Den Osynlige, even if granted a US theatrical release, wouldn't have found a large audience because it is subtitled. Unfortunately, that's how it is in the US. Kids don't want to read their movies. So to remake it, they now will see a great story, that, based on the trailer, looks very very similar to the original. Also, the remake might increase interest in the original which will undoubtedly get a US dvd release because of the remake. And that wouldn have happened had there been no remake. So, is it really such a bad thing?

And to restate the most important point... the original screenwriter was American and he is also doing the American verison of the script.

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"The Invisible" is the hollywood remake. Should come out soon starring the kid who played Tom Cruise's son in War of the Worlds

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Its called "The Invisible". It looks almost exactly the same, except it stars Justin Chatwin.

Everything good is yours, Bruno.

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Both movies are fine.

I saw the remake 1st then i looked up the original.

The ending was changed incase people saw the original just to add something different.

The remake seemed to have more action and the original was a bit edgier, European movie are like that it makes them more realistic, plus the original is slower paced but has less loop holes.

Unfortunately alot don't get the publicity especially if they are in a non English language. Thats probably why they remade it as they saw it was good and wanted it to reach a greater audience.

Neither movie was awesome and neither movie was awfull, as i said both were fine.

Just one annoying thing about both movies , especially the remake was how dumb the police were and how easy Annelie/Annie gets away from them.

Just one more thing to say, Jenny Ulving who plays Sussie in the original is gorgeous.

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its called the invisable

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its called the invisable


Uh, no, prick. It's called "the Invisible."

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sorry bitch

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yes but they changed the end. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?????????

KIRA IS JUSTICE

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Spoiler

















It's probably because of the euthanasia. Remember all the fuss about Million Dollar Baby when that came out.

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Yeah I know, but still. It´s one of those subjects that just is there but you never talk about, this would had been a great opurtunity to bring it out in the light and start a discuccion.

KIRA IS JUSTICE

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Because American audience, obviously (my apology to American true film lovers) aren't capable of handling European endings.

They may remake a movie almost line by line (like Klatretosen), or just keeping the basic idea (like Himmel über Berlin), but when it comes to ending they will adjust it to American taste: it simply has to be a kind of happy-end the way that Americans might feel what the happy-end for particular story would be (and the criteria of happy-ends are also continent-depending).

It seems that Americans would refuse to buy tickets for a movie without a happy-end, and their producers couldn't afford such a waste. Probably the Europeans are, living only in Europe and not in Dreamland, more often handling unhappy things in their lives, and can tolerate such things in movies as well. However, if anything in the world is not as Americans might think that it should be, one of two things happen: a) Oprah appears on TV and tells Americans that it is just the way it has to be and it's the best for USA, or b) G.W.Bush sends American troops to correct it and make things be the way that Americans decide to be the best. And American remakes are made in that spirit.

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There's a difference between American viewers "not being capable of handling European endings and American film studios THINKING American viewers are not capable of handling European endings.

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I have already apologized to those Americans that really care for movies as an art, and I've really meant it. My words can insult this minority, and I have met a lot people on these boards that don't fit into usual image Europeans have about Americans. However, they are still a minority, otherwise American producers (having no art in mind and heart, just profit) would change the way they make movies. And we must remember a big brain-washing influence that certain people and structures have on average audience, so I am afraid that in one or two generations people that ARE capable of handling not only endings, but also plots, characters, style of European movies won't be minority but an endangered species on the edge of extinction.

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Well, maybe independent films will counterbalance the generic Hollywood ones. With distribution moving more towards downloading/streaming (vs. theater and DVD), the little folks could potentially reach a broader audience and get on a similar footing as the big studios.

(Not that I have any insider knowledge. I'm just a regular ol' American who happens to like artsy films, foreign and domestic.)

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