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Jacob's Ladder Remake Planned

posted 11 years ago by mikekaraoke23
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Adrian Lyne's 1990 cult hit Jacob's Ladder is set for the remake treatment, says a story at The Hollywood Reporter. Jeff Buhler (The Midnight Meat Train) is providing the latest draft of the screenplay.

The original film starred Tim Robbins as a Vietnam veteran living in New York City named Jacob Singer. Haunted by his past, Singer begins a descent into madness that threatens to blend reality and delusion with the threat of a Dante-inspired damnation.

The new take on the property is said to reexamine the themes of the original against a contemporary backdrop. When a Stranger Calls screenwriter Jake Wade Wall is said to have worked on an earlier draft of the new script.

Michael Gaeta, Mickey Liddell, Jennifer Monroe and Alison Rosenzweig are set to produce. No director is currently attached, but check back for details as they become available.

[–] mobocracy 10 years ago

I don't know if I can ever be completely against all remakes, ever.

I'm generally opposed to the weak, shot-for-shot remakes that merely attempt to re-shoot the old script with whoever the latest shirtless hearthrob is and a bunch of new CGI. Those fail because they just want to put a gloss on the old product without actually improving it at all.

I do think that remakes can be done without ruining the original. Scorsese's "Cape Fear" was excellent as an example of a remake done right.

I do think that Jacob's Ladder could possibly be remade, but I think it would have to be less of a remake than a borrowing of the basic ideas. Fortunately we've fought some recent feckless wars for dubious reasons over the last decade and a half. It's not hard to come up with the conspiracy backstory for a remake.

[–] Miscella 9 years ago

I do think that Jacob's Ladder could possibly be remade, but I think it would have to be less of a remake than a borrowing of the basic ideas.

The basic idea has already been borrowed in several films. Stay (2005) comes to mind...

[–] thebigbeercan 9 years ago

Just watched it after having not seen it since watching it on VHS about 20 years ago as a kid, back then it was a bizarre horrifying experience which it still is but now you notice things in it more, certainly aged well.

Anyway is this remake still coming the page for it is blank?, hope its canned as this is one film that should influence but not be remade or whatever they want to do for one thing CGI for effects wouldn't work.

[–] Sarpedon99 9 years ago

Why? What the matter with the first installment??