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Dark Horizons reported that Gus Van Sant is keen to do another remake, this time set in a punk rock scene. Sure…okay…..just let Elfman do a punk rock inspired version on Herrmann’s music, and that’s all I care about….
Doubt it will happen….
Is it a remake of the original Psycho or one of the sequals? (I know this sounds like a stupid question, but so is “Is the remake going to be exactly like the original?)
I think what he means is another Hitchcock remake.
Ryan
VanSant must be out of his mind. . . Again. I think the only time a remake of a Hitchcock film is justified is when it is a clever reworking of the plot and pays clear homage to the original film, like what Danny DeVito did with Throw Momma From the Train.
A remake of psycho, and Batman on broadway? Some things just don’t seem right….
Yeah, and Nick Mann will do a remake of “Edward Scissorhands”, this time
set in a hip hop scene (in 2073) with a score by Carter Burwell. Main cast: Chris Klein and Ali Larter.Sounds weird. But if any composer can handle it, it’s Carter Burwell.
Are you sure this headline didn’t say,”Gus Van Sant Was A PSYCHO To Do A Remake?”
Seriously though, Gus Van Sant, really justified the movie. Those cut-shots of the cow during the shower-scene, having Anne Heche dress “conspicuously” like she was headlining the Mummer’s Day Parade while trading in her car, and of course the “slappin’ the salami” sound FX in Dolby Digital, really showed what a talentless hack Hitchcock really was. He improved that flick a 100% … I mean Hitchcock didn’t include ANY livestock in HIS movie. DANNY ELFMAN WAS THE ONLY AWESOME THING ABOUT THAT LAME MOVIE. I mean, the guy actually channeled Bernard Herrmann. How about the little opener before the MAIN THEME … there’s like this macabre plucking of random strings … I loved that! If I ever become a FILM director (not just a stupid TV director) and I get to redo KING KONG … I’d love to have Elfman redo Steiner’s score for it. He could re-orchestrate certain parts of the original but then write up NEW music in the style of Steiner for all the new and different sequences. He’d be the only guy that could pull it off in my book!
I was actually disappointed by Elfman’s reworking of Herrmann’s score. Although I did like the Logos music, I thought it lacked the energy of other Herrmann re-recordings (for the best version of Herrmann’s Psycho, get the Varese Sarbande soundtrack conducted by Joel McNeely).
What’s wrong with TV directors? I plan to be one in the near future and feel that it is a very noble profession.
Oh, that’s not a put-down to anyone ELSE who’s a TV-director … I’m really sorry if that’s how it sounded. I WAS a TV-director for almost 10 years … I made TV commercials for all these local mom and pop businesses until the monotony of the whole thing almost drove me insane. You heard the stories about how Tim Burton was stuck in the Disney Animation Dept. and forced to draw CUTE pictures for “The Fox and the Hound” until he almost snapped? Well, it’s like that, except even more pathetic!!! All these clients wanted their commercial to look like the other client’s commercial … and so on and so on … Hopefully you won’t have to make stuff like that. I wish you luck … it’s possible you might find something in TV you really like doing. On the PLUS-side, it gave ME experience … I was a one-man production crew!!! I’m working on a music-video for someone now … where I’ll actually be able to express myself and maybe put forth something … dare I say it … original! Oh yeah … and I also have the McNeely version of PSYCHO. I had to get that one ’cause Elfman didn’t put forth an album of the complete score … at least to my knowledge. Yeah … I did like that CD … McNeely did a great job!!! Once again, sorry if I offended anyone about the TV putdown … I should have been more specific that it was MY job I thought was stupid … certainly not anyone else’s!
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