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PLATINUM DUNES ANNOUNCES PLANS TO REMAKE EVERY HORROR MOVIE EVER RELEASED

October 29 2008

Hollywood, CA – With three remakes of classic horror movies behind them, and at least three more in active development, Platinum Dunes has announced an ambitious plan to remake every horror movie ever released over the next fifteen years. Co-founder Michael Bay made the announcement on Tuesday.

“We have had a tremendous amount of success with remakes and the fans have voted. They want a fresh viewpoint on their beloved classics and we will give that to them,” said Bay, director of such films as ‘Armageddon’ and ‘Transformers’. “It’s a daunting task to go through every horror film ever, and we will start with the more high profile titles first, but eventually we will get through everything. The eighties in particular will be tough, but at least the nineties and two thousands will be easy since hardly anything has been released.”

The company has previously produced remakes of ‘The Amityville Horror’, ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, and ‘The Hitcher’. Currently remakes of ‘Friday the 13th’, ‘The Birds’, and ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ are currently in production.

“'2000 Maniacs'? yes; 'White Zombie'? yes; Those are classics and we obviously need to exploit those properties, but we are also going to produce remakes of lesser known cult titles like ‘Slumber Party Massacre’ and ‘Cannibal Ferox’,” continued Bay. “There’s an audience out there for pretty much anything and we don’t want to disappoint fans of any film by not updating and changing it. We want to include everyone. There will of course be people that hate them, but we don’t really care about them. The paying customers are the important ones.”

Of course Platinum Dunes isn’t the only production company with an eye to horror remakes. Redo’s of classics ‘The Wicker Man’, ‘Prom Night’, and ‘Dawn of the Dead’ have all enjoyed recent box-office success, and rumours abound for the classic gore fests ‘Cannibal Holocaust’, ‘Hellraiser’ and 'Child's Play'. Bay though believes that his company is on the cutting edge of remakes and will be able to outdo any competition.

“There is nobody in the film industry as adept at moderately modifying existing properties and having success, so there is nobody more able to have success at this than we are,” continued Bay. “We will wrest those properties away from companies that own them, and in answer to the question that you haven’t asked yet, yes we will be remaking remakes, including our own.”

Aside from outrage that will inevitably result from the remaking and wide scale exposure of personal classics, many are questioning the logic of remaking every movie from a wholly pragmatic perspective.

“Where do you end? Do you make remakes of remakes that were already remakes? Theoretically you will be going forever just remaking the same movies over and over again,” said Scrape TV Entertainment analyst Tracey Temple. “Of course that wouldn’t be much different from what already goes on in Hollywood, but this is taking it a little too literally. I also don’t see a potential audience for ‘Psychomania’ or ‘Killer Klowns from Outer Space’, at least not an audience that would have anything more than hatred for the remake. Plus there are thousands of movies out there; seems a silly thing to do really.”

Platinum Dunes gave no time line for the productions, nor which titles will be first on the slate after the current crop of films have been released.

Bay also stated that while he will act only as a producer for the films, he was interested in remaking of his own pictures as a director.

“I feel that we could do something with ‘The Rock’. Every time I go back and look at that movie I see a few little things we could have done better, some subtleties that we overlooked. There’s a lot of potential there.”

Currently Bay is filming the sequel ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’, which was originally based on a cartoon, which was based on a line of toys.

Samantha Dryden, Entertainment Correspondent

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