*Hollywood appears to be fresh out of ideas as studios continue to churn out remakes and “re-imaginings” of the classics… but “with a spin.”
Usually the “spin” is simply casting Blacks, gays or transgenders for leading roles and calling it “diversity.”
Will the same unauthentic, contrived casting be used in the Universal Pictures and Sentient remake of “The Others”?
The 2001 Nicole Kidman supernatural, psychological horror film is currently in development for a remake.
Directed by Alejandro Amenábar, in “The Others,” Kidman plays a woman in post-war 1945 who lives with her two photosensitive children who fear their home is haunted, and it leads up to an unexpected ending. The movie was a box office hit, grossing over $209.9 million worldwide.
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According to TheWrap, it’s unclear how or if the film will be updated, but reportedly the studio plans to revamp the film by setting it in the present day.
Will they cast young social media stars for this new version? Time will soon tell. #StayTuned!
In the meantime, Kidman can next be seen in David E. Kelley’s “The Undoing,” in which she plays a wife and mother named Grace whose perfect life is shattered when a friend is brutally murdered, and Grace’s husband becomes the prime suspect.
Here’s more about the plot via Yahoo:
Grace’s world turns upside-down the day after a young New York City mother is gruesomely murdered the night after her glitzy private school benefit. (Yet another “Big Little Lies” parallel.) The media, salivating over the details of a crime implicating the city’s most elite social strata, can’t get enough coverage of the aftermath and ensuing court case, i.e. the stuff that tabloid dreams are made of. Pundits debate the hazy facts of the case, pointing out that the victim, Elena Alves (Matilda De Angelis), was unlike the other manicured mothers at the elite Reardon School, being Latina and poorer. When turning to the prime suspect (Hugh Grant), they make sure to highlight that he’s not just a charming children’s oncologist, but a white and obscenely wealthy man.
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