Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments
Rosemary’s Baby
06/12/08 - Producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form updated the status of
several upcoming supernatural horror films, including The Horsemen,
The Unborn and a remake of Rosemary's Baby. As for
Rosemary's Baby--a remake of Roman Polanski's 1968 psychological
thriller, about a young woman (Mia Farrow) who discovers she's carrying
the devil's child--Fuller defended the effort against critics who say
they are setting out to desecrate a classic. Fuller and Form, working
with Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes production company, have been behind
several recent reboots of classic horror franchises, including The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror and the
upcoming Friday the 13th. "I want to address that," Fuller said.
"Because if we don't do Rosemary's Baby, somebody else [will].
They're not going to pass on it. And, like I said, being horror fans
like we are, we would want to take the opportunity and take a shot at
it, rather than read about someone else doing it. So all the s--t we get
for doing these things--it really just comes out of being huge fans and
wanting to take a shot, you know?" Fuller added that they have not come
up with a story for the reboot of Rosemary. "There are two or
three competing writers who we are talking to," he said. "If you would
say that Rosemary's Baby is a ... supernatural story, ... one of
our takes is supernatural. And then there's another that's not
supernatural, that kind of takes that story and roots it in reality. And
that's a decision we are going to have to make as soon as we wrap [Friday
the 13th] and go back to L.A. and start sitting down with Paramount:
... What kind of story do they want us to tell for them, and what's the
smartest way to tell that story? So I don't know if it's going to be
supernatural. It might, it might not be, and it might be called
Rosemary's Baby and it might not be, but at least ... Paramount was
gracious enough to give us the jumping-off point of taking a classic
film and seeing what we can do with it."
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