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EXCL: Producer Embarks on True Terror Train Remake

Source:Ryan Rotten
September 12, 2008


Okay, class: If one Terror Train remake leaves the station in 2007 and another one is getting ready to depart in 2009, which one will reach its final destination first?

Confused by the question? Let me explain: There is a producer right now currently putting on his conductor's hat to make a true Terror Train remake. Why true?

You may recall Nu Image going into production last year on a project that began as a remake of the Jamie Lee Curtis-starring film. Writer-director Gideon Raff climbed aboard, the story changed, Thora Birch was cast and the film is now simply called Train. And from what I saw at last year's AFM, it looked like is "Hostel on the rails."

I got word this week producer Phillip Goldfine of Steamroller Productions is moving ahead on remake of Terror Train that will stay true to the spirit of Roger Spottiswoode's 1980 slasher entry. Goldfine's credits include The Art of War II: Betrayal, Lost Boys: The Tribe, a handful of Steven Seagal actioners and Disturbing Behavior.

Goldfine, we're told, has not snared a writer or director yet but he would like to get Terror Train ready for release in the fall of 2009. Nu Image's Train, meanwhile, has no set release date.

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Posted by: AUTOPSY on September 12, 2008 at 11:09:18

Think they'll bring David Copperfield back in?

>: )

Posted by: thorn on September 12, 2008 at 11:42:42

maybe they could use cris angel for the remake...

Posted by: Ryan Rotten on September 12, 2008 at 11:48:14

That's exactly what I was thinking. Angel or David Blaine.

Posted by: Doctor Splatten on September 12, 2008 at 12:16:54

Yet another spook flick from my childhood is being exploited. Nothing new here.

Posted by: Doctor Splatten on September 12, 2008 at 12:49:56

Okay, I meant spooky. Give me a break, I didn't sleep much last night. Anyways, I was looking at Goldfine's "credits", and it became clear (just now?) why so many of these remakes are horrible: too many lousy filmmakers are getting these jobs at a dizzying rate. True filmmking artists wouldn't dare remake a film (especially a classic) unless there was reason and he/she has a vision. And since more and more remakes have become money-makers, studios more and more have turned to less capable people to just simply churn these films out. They've now become an industry, ensuring that films that do need an update (like "Terror Train") are denied quality talent.

Posted by: djblack1313 on September 14, 2008 at 16:17:26

i LOVE the original, and never got WHY, for the remake TRAIN, they changed it to "HOSTEL on the rails". i love the fact the killer changes costumes after each kill (for the most part).
judging by Goldfine's other ventures (Steven Segal movies and the Lost Boys sequel) i'm not holding my breath for a decent remake.

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