Don't Look Now, but another remake in the works
06-27-05 | 09:29 AM
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Don't Look Now, but another remake in the works
From The Hollywood Reporter
June 27, 2005
Gordon spies 'Look' remake
By Gregg Kilday
Mark Gordon is planning to produce a remake of "Don't Look Now" for Paramount Pictures.
The 1973 film, directed by Nicolas Roeg and based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier, created a sensation in the early '70s thanks to a highly erotic love scene featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie.
Andrea Berloff will write the screenplay for the adaptation, which centers on a couple, John and Laura Baxter, who go to Venice, Italy, to recuperate after the sudden death of their daughter only to encounter strange visions that suggest their daughter's presence.
Gordon is producing through his Mark Gordon Co., with senior vp Josh McLaughlin overseeing for the Mark Gordon Co.
Paramount executives Wendy Japhet and Edward Goemans are overseeing for the studio.
McLaughlin said he and Gordon took the arrival of the new production team at Paramount as an opportunity to review titles in the Paramount library with an eye toward remakes. "I've always been a big fan of 'Don't Look Now,' and we thought it was a movie that could be updated. We owe a lot to Andrea Berloff, who (took the idea) and hit the ground running with the movie's ideas of death and life and looking for something just beyond life."
The original film, Gordon added, "was very much of its time, with a lot of atmospherics that wouldn't necessarily work today. But it has a great idea and a wonderful backdrop and setting. We hope to take the feeling of the story, continue to set it in Venice and make it contemporary."
Gordon recently completed filming "Casanova," starring Heath Ledger and directed by Lasse Hallstrom, for Walt Disney Studios in Venice, and despite the logistical challenges the waterlogged city presents, he hopes to return there to film "Don't Look Now." "The setting is part of what made the original movie," Gordon said.
The Mark Gordon Co. also produces the ABC series "Grey's Anatomy" with Touchstone Television. Gordon also is developing two other projects at Paramount, a new version of "The Ten Commandments" and "Killing Pablo," with Joe Carnahan as director.
Gordon spies 'Look' remake
By Gregg Kilday
Mark Gordon is planning to produce a remake of "Don't Look Now" for Paramount Pictures.
The 1973 film, directed by Nicolas Roeg and based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier, created a sensation in the early '70s thanks to a highly erotic love scene featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie.
Andrea Berloff will write the screenplay for the adaptation, which centers on a couple, John and Laura Baxter, who go to Venice, Italy, to recuperate after the sudden death of their daughter only to encounter strange visions that suggest their daughter's presence.
Gordon is producing through his Mark Gordon Co., with senior vp Josh McLaughlin overseeing for the Mark Gordon Co.
Paramount executives Wendy Japhet and Edward Goemans are overseeing for the studio.
McLaughlin said he and Gordon took the arrival of the new production team at Paramount as an opportunity to review titles in the Paramount library with an eye toward remakes. "I've always been a big fan of 'Don't Look Now,' and we thought it was a movie that could be updated. We owe a lot to Andrea Berloff, who (took the idea) and hit the ground running with the movie's ideas of death and life and looking for something just beyond life."
The original film, Gordon added, "was very much of its time, with a lot of atmospherics that wouldn't necessarily work today. But it has a great idea and a wonderful backdrop and setting. We hope to take the feeling of the story, continue to set it in Venice and make it contemporary."
Gordon recently completed filming "Casanova," starring Heath Ledger and directed by Lasse Hallstrom, for Walt Disney Studios in Venice, and despite the logistical challenges the waterlogged city presents, he hopes to return there to film "Don't Look Now." "The setting is part of what made the original movie," Gordon said.
The Mark Gordon Co. also produces the ABC series "Grey's Anatomy" with Touchstone Television. Gordon also is developing two other projects at Paramount, a new version of "The Ten Commandments" and "Killing Pablo," with Joe Carnahan as director.
06-27-05 | 10:34 AM
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Donald Sutherland in a love scene? Hard to picture, and not something I want to do anyway!
06-27-05 | 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by ddd
Highly erotic love scene? I don't remember that...I must watch this film again. I have the dvd 
are you kidding?!? it's pretty graphic! I think it burned a hole in my memory
06-27-05 | 11:52 AM
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I just bought the DVD in the DDD 20% off sale.
I saw this at a revival house in the 80s, and the print was missing the sex scene with Sutherland and Christie.
Agree that this is a very "70s" movie, so it will be interesting to see what is done with the story now.
Entertainment Weekly has done at least a couple of bits about movies that had great premises, but didn't turn out well for one reason or the other, and that these were the movies that producers should be clamoring to remake. The original "Don't Look Now" isn't perfect, but it held my interest and didn't suggest to me that it was crying out for a remake.
I saw this at a revival house in the 80s, and the print was missing the sex scene with Sutherland and Christie.
Agree that this is a very "70s" movie, so it will be interesting to see what is done with the story now.
Entertainment Weekly has done at least a couple of bits about movies that had great premises, but didn't turn out well for one reason or the other, and that these were the movies that producers should be clamoring to remake. The original "Don't Look Now" isn't perfect, but it held my interest and didn't suggest to me that it was crying out for a remake.
06-27-05 | 12:29 PM
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I've always been interested in checking out this movie-- is it worth a blind buy?
06-27-05 | 11:00 PM
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You know, I was at the movies this weekend and couldn't help but laugh that almost every release is a remake, sequel or spin-off from a TV series. I liked Don't Look Now, but do we have to redo everything?
I just bought Don't Look Now this past Halloween when BB had it on their Halloween sale - and the sex scene surprised me. I had not heard anything about the movie and thought it was a great blind buy. So for the article to say that it doesn't work as well now, I disagree.
I just bought Don't Look Now this past Halloween when BB had it on their Halloween sale - and the sex scene surprised me. I had not heard anything about the movie and thought it was a great blind buy. So for the article to say that it doesn't work as well now, I disagree.
