A Dead Ringer for HBO
11-23-05, 10:50 AM
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A Dead Ringer for HBO
Hadn't seen this posted yet...
http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/2608/2/
http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/2608/2/
A Dead Ringer for HBO
Written by Scott Collura
Friday, 11 November 2005
David Cronenberg has mellowed a bit in his middle age, I suppose. How else can you explain the announcement today that his 1988 oddball gynecological thriller Dead Ringers is going to be turned into an HBO series?
HBO has ordered a pilot script for the proposed show, Variety reports, which Wesley Strick (Cape Fear) will pen. Cronenberg will actually direct the pilot, while also executive producing the show with Strick and Carol Baum.
Dead Ringers starred Jeremy Irons in the dual role of twin brothers, both gynecologists, who specialized in disturbingly unusable (one hopes) surgical tools, and who went just a bit crazy after meeting Geneviève Bujold, who of course has her own issues too.
One can only hope that this will finally lead to the much-hoped-for Scanners TV series. They can show exploding heads on HBO, right?
Written by Scott Collura
Friday, 11 November 2005
David Cronenberg has mellowed a bit in his middle age, I suppose. How else can you explain the announcement today that his 1988 oddball gynecological thriller Dead Ringers is going to be turned into an HBO series?
HBO has ordered a pilot script for the proposed show, Variety reports, which Wesley Strick (Cape Fear) will pen. Cronenberg will actually direct the pilot, while also executive producing the show with Strick and Carol Baum.
Dead Ringers starred Jeremy Irons in the dual role of twin brothers, both gynecologists, who specialized in disturbingly unusable (one hopes) surgical tools, and who went just a bit crazy after meeting Geneviève Bujold, who of course has her own issues too.
One can only hope that this will finally lead to the much-hoped-for Scanners TV series. They can show exploding heads on HBO, right?
11-23-05, 02:04 PM
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I just read about this in Entertainment Weekly. I'm surprised they would make a TV series out of this (but surprised in a good way). It is one of my favorite Cronenburg films and I am really looking forward to this one.
11-23-05, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by auto
I loved the film but where, exactly, are they planning to go with this?
but I'm a huge Cronenberg fan.....and Dead Ringers is my favorite Cronenberg film, so I am very very excited!!
11-23-05, 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by auto
I loved the film but where, exactly, are they planning to go with this?
Which sometimes smells vaguely fishy, or at least that's what I've heard.
11-25-05, 10:55 PM
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I'm willing to give the creators bonus points if they can get the Hennessy twins to show up nude on the series. Heck, they'd get the same points if they could get any set of twins so beautiful to show up in similar roles. 
11-26-05, 10:05 AM
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Has anyone read Twins, by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, the novel on which the film is based (which in turn is very loosely based on a real story)?
Having read the book years before, which I thought was one of the best horror novels I had ever read, I was disappointed with the film adaptation.
Here's an interesting article by one of the co-authors of the novel:
http://www.avguide.com/film_music/fi..._review_65.jsp
The book is still in print in a rather expensive edition:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...books&v=glance
Cheap copies of the old mass market paperback are readily available:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...books&v=glance
Having read the book years before, which I thought was one of the best horror novels I had ever read, I was disappointed with the film adaptation.
Here's an interesting article by one of the co-authors of the novel:
http://www.avguide.com/film_music/fi..._review_65.jsp
The book is still in print in a rather expensive edition:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...books&v=glance
Cheap copies of the old mass market paperback are readily available:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...books&v=glance
Last edited by movielib; 11-26-05 at 10:10 AM.
