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Marti Noxon Penning Fright Night Remake

Source:  The Hollywood Reporter
Fright Night Getting a RedoMad Men writer-producer Marti Noxon will script DreamWorks Studios' remake of the 1985 horror comedy Fright Night.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, before her work on the hit AMC series, Noxon was a writer-producer on the bloodsucker series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, so fangs and stakes are in her blood.

The original Fright Night, released in 1985, was written and directed by Tom Holland and starred Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall and William Ragsdale. Ragsdale played a teenager who discovers his neighbors are vampires.

The new version will keep the comedy-horror tone while modernizing the effects.


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Vanboy's Profile
Vanboy
November 14th, 2009 4:33pm
Nobody can fill Roddy McDowall's shoes in this role. Nobody!
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Oli's Profile
Oli
November 12th, 2009 11:13pm
Bleh.
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Flukey106's Profile
Flukey106
November 12th, 2009 8:07pm
mm very true messenger
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err's Profile
err
November 12th, 2009 12:40pm
apathy comes with age, i think.
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Brian's Profile
Brian
November 12th, 2009 10:57am
This one I can see.
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Newkill200
November 12th, 2009 10:35am
Yeah, I'm with you, err. Before, I just used to get pissed when I heard one of my favorites were getting remade. Now, i just throw my hands up and say fuck it.
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err's Profile
err
November 12th, 2009 10:29am
hell even if it is a crapfest i'll still check it out.
i just don't seem to care anymore.
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Darko
November 12th, 2009 9:03am
10 to 1 odds they make it PG-13
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Todd89
November 12th, 2009 8:59am
I won't be watching the remake, I rather see the original.
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buriblazing
November 12th, 2009 7:54am
better not screw this one up!
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Messenger's Profile
Messenger
November 12th, 2009 7:32am
Flukey, it's not the filmmakers or the directors or the writers it's mainly the producers. They have the money and they want to make sure they get more of it back, hence the reason why we have so many remakes and sequels. As for the writers and directors, if you name isn't Spielberg then you are just SOL on making an original movie.
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err
November 12th, 2009 6:51am
yep.
vampires are all the rage right now.
whatever, i guess, as long as its funny and not a crapfest i'll check out the dvd when its released.
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Flukey106
November 12th, 2009 1:45am
That's all i hear these days, remake that and remake this, sequel this and prequel that. We need a new breed of filmmakers, directors, writers and producers. Sick of hearing Saw 7, Scream 4, etc etc
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