Magic - remake (D: Raimi)
09-28-22 | 06:12 PM
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Magic - remake (D: Raimi)
Released in 1978, Richard Attenborough’s Anthony Hopkins-starring Magic is one of the great evil doll horror movies, and it looks like a remake is on the way from… Sam Raimi?!
Producer Roy Lee let it slip on the latest episode of Post Mortem with Mick Garris that he’s producing a new take on Magic, and Raimi – a huge fan of the original – is directing!
“I’ve only worked with [Sam Raimi] as a producer on films… actually… the first time I’m gonna work with him as a director is on a remake of Magic,” Roy Lee tells Mick Garris. “Which is something that we’re working on now. The Anthony Hopkins movie. We’re just actually hearing the final versions of the different takes from writers next week.”
“[Sam] loved the original movie and the book written by William Goldman,” Lee adds.
In the original 1978 movie, based on Goldman’s book, “A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.”
Sam Raimi most recently directed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for Marvel, a horror-heavy superhero movie that brought the Evil Dead mastermind back into the genre.
And it sounds like he’s not going anywhere else anytime soon. Stay tuned for more.
Producer Roy Lee let it slip on the latest episode of Post Mortem with Mick Garris that he’s producing a new take on Magic, and Raimi – a huge fan of the original – is directing!
“I’ve only worked with [Sam Raimi] as a producer on films… actually… the first time I’m gonna work with him as a director is on a remake of Magic,” Roy Lee tells Mick Garris. “Which is something that we’re working on now. The Anthony Hopkins movie. We’re just actually hearing the final versions of the different takes from writers next week.”
“[Sam] loved the original movie and the book written by William Goldman,” Lee adds.
In the original 1978 movie, based on Goldman’s book, “A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.”
Sam Raimi most recently directed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for Marvel, a horror-heavy superhero movie that brought the Evil Dead mastermind back into the genre.
And it sounds like he’s not going anywhere else anytime soon. Stay tuned for more.
09-28-22 | 06:22 PM
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Re: Magic - remake (D: Raimi)
I was gonna say "No topless Ann Margret = No Sale" but she's 81 now, so nevermind.
09-28-22 | 06:43 PM
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Re: Magic - remake (D: Raimi)
The original creeped me out as a kid. I loves me some Raimi so I will give it a shot.
09-29-22 | 09:15 AM
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DVD Talk Hero
Re: Magic - remake (D: Raimi)
Can't believe I have zero knowledge of the original.
Goes to show the marketing power of a good DVD release on an old movie. That's how I discovered a lot of older movies.
Goes to show the marketing power of a good DVD release on an old movie. That's how I discovered a lot of older movies.
09-29-22 | 12:18 PM
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Re: Magic - remake (D: Raimi)
I think I know more people who remember being freaked out by the TV commercial when they were little kids than have actually seen it.
09-29-22 | 12:37 PM
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Re: Magic - remake (D: Raimi)
Yeah it was an early HBO staple. Freaked me out as well.
