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Steven Spielberg On Remaking ‘Jaws’…
There’s been chatter of Universal Pictures remaking Steven Spielberg’s 1975 Jaws since we launched this site in 2001.
Now, Spielberg is heading back to Universal with Amblin Partners, and out of this news came the question of whether or not Jaws was going to get the reboot.
Spielberg tells Deadline that he (personally) would never remake any of his own movies (even though films like Poltergeist still found a way to get remade).
“I would never remake one of my own movies — starting with Jaws — but there are Amblin titles in the library that could inspire new stories that were made popular by the films,” he said. “There isn’t a single title that I’ve earmarked, but yes, I would like to. I will be discussing that with Jeff (Skoll) and Ronnie (Meyer) and Donna (Langley).
“I would never remake Jaws,” he double clarified.
Adds the site: Besides, he joked, he’d have to get the permission from his attorney Bruce “Jaws” Ramer — which everyone knows is the town’s biggest legal shark — in order to use the name again.
What’s interesting here is that it sounds as if Spielberg is okay with mining the library for franchises to spin off. The latest Indiana Jones is the perfect example of him attempting to push the franchise in a new direction (with Shia Labeouf), even though it failed. I do like that he’s at least trying to keep Hollywood honest, even if that’s just smoke and mirrors.
Jaws is more than a financial success, it’s also historically important being that it was the first ever summer blockbuster. It’s because of Jaws that we get mega-huge blockbusters each and ever summer.
The Broadway stage production of Paranormal Activity can’t wait to scare audiences and is acting accordingly; Deadline reports that the opening date has been bumped up several weeks.
Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Stage is coming to Broadway for a limited 20-week engagement. The first preview performance scheduled for Friday, August 14, at the August Wilson Theatre, remains in place. Now the play will officially open on Tuesday, August 25, moving up from its initial September 15 launch date.
The official synopsis: “James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape their past, but they soon discover that places aren’t haunted, people are.”
Directed by Felix Barrett and written by playwright Levi Holloway, the stage show weaves “an original story inspired by the film franchise, Paranormal Activity reimagines the modern ghost story with an intimacy that only live theatre can provide.”
The Broadway production will follow a strictly limited pre-Broadway engagement in Boston at the Emerson Colonial Theatre from July 11 through July 30.
Both the Broadway and Boston casts will feature Cher Álvarez, Travis A. Knight, Shannon Cochran, and Andrea Syglowski. Understudies will be Caron Buinis, Caroline Hendricks, and Michael Holding.
Álvarez will play Lou, and Knight plays James.
Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Stage premiered at the Leeds Playhouse in the UK before transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End, where it received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination this year for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play.
Original Paranormal Activity stars Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat attended the Paranormal Activity play last year, and they both shared their thoughts over on Instagram.
Katie Featherston raved, “What a truly fun night seeing the new Paranormal Activity at the Ahmanson Theatre! We had a blast- so scary and so fun. The design and production was amazing and the cast did a fantastic job. Congrats to all involved!”
There’s also a brand new movie on the way.
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