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Post by phantomdroid on Dec 14, 2007 23:40:42 GMT 10
DarkHorizons.com has reported that special effects guru Randall William Cook ('The Gate', 'Gate II', 'King Kong', 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy) is set to direct a sequel to the 1987 cult-classic 'The Gate'. No word yet on who will be penning the film or what studio will be releasing it. Here's the report... Cook helming "The Gate" remake by Dark Horizons And here's the original JoBlo article... The Gate Remake? at JoBlo.com 'The Gate' is one of my all time favorite films...and who better to direct the remake than the special effects creator/ supervisor of the original 1987 movie Randy Cook himself! This is the best news I've read all year! This new version is gonna be AWESOME! ;D |
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Post by phantomdroid on Jun 4, 2008 1:49:10 GMT 10
UPDATE: This just in from Cannes. H20 Motion Pictures (Gate producer Andras Hamori's company) have officially greenlit a third Gate film. The new installment will be produced under the title 'The Gate: 20 Years Later'. As mentioned earlier, Oscar winning FX master Randall William Cook will helm the project (his directorial debut) which, as you might guess, takes place two decades after the original film (I think it's safe to assume that it will ignore the inferior sequel 'Gate II: Trespassers' aka 'Gate II: Return to the Nightmare'.) Will Stephen Dorff, Louis Tripp and Christa Denton be back to battle the pint-sized demonic Minions once again? Well, I certainly hope so! Lol! ;D
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Post by phantomdroid on Sept 24, 2008 0:31:06 GMT 10
UPDATE: Randall William Cook has left the new Gate sequel project. Here's the unfortunate news from iconsoffright.com: "Randy Cook was present for a recent Fright Night commentary session for ICONS OF FRIGHT, which took place prior to the Fright Night reunion screening at the Nuart Theater and admitted to ICONS staffer Tim Sullivan that The Gate sequel wasn't happening anymore. At least not with his involvement. Apparently, the "script was terrible" and the producers putting the project together wouldn't give Cook the opportunity to work on it further to get it more to his liking. Looks like we'll just have to break out the original movie if we want our Gate fix." Man...I'm literally weeping right now.  |
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Post by phantomdroid on Mar 27, 2009 21:25:17 GMT 10
UPDATE: Several months ago, WETA FX guru Randall William Cook let the word out that he was no longer attached to direct the new film 'The Gate: 20 Years Later'. Since then a frustrating uncertainty has surrounded the production. The project was reported to be at first a 3D remake, then a regular 2D sequel and then finally was relegated to production limbo seemingly for good...that is, until a post on ProductionWeekly.com fired things up again. The publication says that actor/ director Alex Winter is now attached to direct. While most genre fans may recognize Winter's work in front of the camera in such films as 'The Lost Boys', 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure' and 'Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey'...the former actor eventually made the segue into directing with his weird-fest debut 'Freaked' and later followed it up with the highly underrated 'Fever' starring 'E.T.'s' Henry Thomas. Most recently, Winter directed several episodes of the Cartoon Network's 'Ben 10' animated series as well as it's live-action counterpart 'Race Against Time!' Hmmmm. Sounds interesting...although unfortunately the new information cannot be substantiated at this time. Stay tuned...I'll see what else I can dig up.  |
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Post by phantomdroid on Mar 27, 2009 21:49:17 GMT 10
UPDATE: The IMDb (Internet Movie Database) has a new movie board for The Gate remake up and running. You can view it here... The Gate <-- Click on link Among the confirmed details is the year of release which is 2010. |
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