Salem's Lot to be redone!
 

TNT is apparently doing a remake of Salem's Lot.

From the article:

"LOS ANGELES (AP) - TNT is taking a new stab at Stephen King's vampire novel '``Salem's Lot.''

The cable network plans to produce a four-hour miniseries based on the 1975 book about bloodsuckers who slowly take over an isolated New England town."

Full article: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/2001...m_s_lot_1.html

I, for one, have been pretty pleased with the last few Stephen King mini-series'. I can't wait for this one.

-Steve

Yes! Something to look forward to.

That's good news! It's a good story, and hopefully they'll do a better job than the original did. If not, at least it won't look so dated!

Great news. I love this story and I liked the original TV Movie too.

I assume Barlow will look like he was intended (even though the Reggie Nalder version was more horrific).

New Salem's Lot in 2004
 

Salem's Lot

I never really liked the original movie adaptation of Salem's Lot and although I prefer the book to the movie I am looking foward to how it may turn out.

Some interesting casting either way:

Rutger Hauer
James Cromwell
Rob Lowe
Andre Braugher
Samantha Mathis
Donald Sutherland

I wish "they" would put their money to better uses than remakes, I think an adaptation of Talisman would be more welcome, you know?

Nice! :up:

My favorite King book.

The scene with the kids floating outside the windows, scratching on it, scared the hell out of me as a kid.

Oh man, does this ever sound like it is going to be baaaad. Plus, there is no way they can do the story justice and still walk within the confines of made-for-TV content standards.

It will probably suck - most King adaptions usually do - but since the original was never that great, I suppose it's worth a shot. Maybe they should get Frank Darabont to direct - he has about as good a track record translating King to the screen as anybody. But that cast doesn't look very promising. Most of them are about 10 years off their last hit.

You and me both!

Ok, I'll second (or third) that emotion! This ranks in the top 5 scariest movie memories as a child!

:up: Bingo! that was the scariest F'ing thing I had ever seen up until then.

After reading the book, watching the TV movie again really disapointed me. King created a kick ass vampire in his book and they changed it into a moronic monster.

The first TV movie was pretty lame. Because of this, I'm more interested in this one than previous ones like Carrie and The Shining, that were good films to begin with.

Damned good cast, by the way.

Re: New Salem's Lot in 2004
 

My god, I hope they never try a Talisman movie. As much as I loved the book, I know for sure they will have screw with it to get it made as a television movie and it just seems too grand to work as a two or even three-hour theatrical release. I am much more happy with the images I have in my mind than I would be in seeing it translated onto the small screen. Some things just should never be adapted in my opinion and this would be one of them.

Salem's Lot - a new adaptation of the Stephen King novel
 

This was reported in MovieTalk, but the adaptation will actually be on TV (a mini-series, I know not).

This time, Rob Lowe plays Ben Mears (the character David Soul) played in the 1970's version). Donald Sutherland as Straker, and Rutger Hauer as the un-man himself: BARLOW.

This will be finished next year, in 2004. Can't wait.

Anyone seen the old one lately? Does not seem like somethig that needs to be remade IMHO. But the cast sounds great.

I only hope they don't strech two nights into three as they seem to be doing since storm of the century and ever since.

The last good King adaptation for tv was the shinning....

I enjoyed Storm of the Century and The Stand, but didn't like The Shining because of that child actor. And It was just bad. Cheezy.

Have you ever read the book? It is really very different. If they stay closer to the book this time, it will definitly be worth it.

That being said, I first watched Salem's Lot when I was about 4. It scared the crap out of me. I vividly remember that boy coming back and scraping on the windo after the kid abandoned him in the woods. I just turned around and started screaming for my mother, who didn't know what I was watching. :)

holy CRAP that scared me as a kid!

Another guy scared by the floating kid. :D

Rutger Hauer
Donald Sutherland
:up:

yep, the floating kids ranks up there with Poltergeist's killer clown for me

And me! Every time I think of Salem's Lot, I remember that scene and I still get chills down my spine. See, there it goes again!

*scrich scrich scrich*

Add me to that list. Shutter.

It should be a theater release, IMO

Here's a review of Salem's Lot as it starts tonight:

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles...ot_of_quality/

I enjoyed the first half. It's been a while since I'd seen the original or read the book, but it seemed pretty faithful. The "updates" are kinda lame, though not too terrible. I'll be checking out the second half.

I watched it, it seemed pretty good. I'll definately check out the 2nd part. but, I did think the "kid at the window" scene was scarier in the first one. In fact, that's all I remember from the first one and I remember it scaring the pee outta me when I was 5.

I enjoyed it too. Definitely different from the 1979 version. Closer to the book in some ways but some characters are different, for instance Mark. I liked the old Mark better.

Overall, it's enjoyable, but for me the scares (so far) pale in connection with the earlier version. I think this has to do with the director not knowing how to set up suspense. There (1) are too many quick cuts, and (2) is too much overpowering background music.

Still, looking forward to tonight. It looks to be better than last night (as most King miniseries are).

I enjoyed the first part, I hope tonight's ending is decent. I have never seen the original in its entirety, just the chopped down version. Never read the book, as I didn't want to keep picturing David Soul as I read it, so nothing to compare it to.

I also liked it. The Vamps actually wigged me out a little bit (thats before they moved like The Flash, that was a bit cheesy). One of the better King made for tv movies so far.

The first half hour was horrible with all that heavy handed voice over.

Once Sutherland and Andre Whatshisface came in it got better though.

any Dark Tower references? I don't have cable, so I didn't get a chance to watch it.

The voice over wasn't that bad. It allowed for quick exposition. Since they only have about three hours for the whole thing, it's important not to dwell over the initial scenes.

Dunno but there was a dog named Cujo.

Worth a rental just for the commentary track though, very entertaining.

Worst. Titles. Ever.

Ditto! :eek:

It seems that every time they "adapt" something of King's they forget that it is supposed to be SCARY.

Man, both the novel and the original 1970s mini had moments that gave me goosebumps. These stuff? Nah...