He must find a way to reverse the spell before he gets so small that he “disappears.”Oh remake train, cursed remake train, when will you fall off your tracks and plummet into the canyon of yesterday. When Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him. Check out our list of the month's most anticipated films and shows to stream from home. Scott is advised to sell his story and he begins keeping a journal of his experiences. Louise prepares to move out and asks her brother, Charlie, to help. Universal held the rights to Richard Matheson's celebrated 1956 sci-fi novel The Shrinking Man for a couple decades, but was never able to get a remake or new adaptation off the ground (probably for the best, seeing how one planned version was a family-friendly comedy starring Eddie Murphy). Coming to America, Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places were all hilarious and films I will still watch over and over again.
With Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton. I suppose they are easy to whip off, and the title already has a familiarity for advertising purposes; but it’s really just starting to feel wrong.
A look at the plague that decimated New York City and gave birth to creatures known as the Infected.
A flippant, half-assed remake is not in the best interest of anyone other that those cashing the checks.
Brett Ratner is in negotiations to direct Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment’s remake of The Incredible Shrinking Man. Reading movie news is a lot like watching the weather channel during hurricane season. . If I were Eddie Murphy I would however think twice about signing on for this particular project. When Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him. The film grossed $1.43 million in the United States and Canada and was among the highest grossing science fiction films of the 1950s.
These included The Amazing Colossal Man and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. It's one of those fantasy concepts that does not age.
Directed by Jack Arnold.
MGM To Remake 'The Incredible Shrinking Man,' Sci-Fi Legend Richard Matheson To Co-Write.
The water heater bursts, but when Charlie and Louise come to investigate, Scott is too small for them to hear his screams for help. In the early stages of the KV Pandemic, an imprisoned terrorist is deliberately left behind at the prison to die, with no information on the outbreak.
Scott is referred to a medical research institute, where it is determined Scott's exposure to the mist, combined with his later exposure to a pesticide, rearranged his molecular structure, causing him to shrink. The Incredible Shrinking Man is to be seen on the big screen once again after it was announced that Richard Matheson, the 86-year-old sci-fi novelist and … Ratner has reportedly signed on to direct a remake of Jack Arnold’s 1957 film The Incredible Shrinking Man (based on the novel by Richard Matheson).
A remake/send-up of The Shrinking Man, Richard Matheson’s acclaimed 1956 science-fiction novel that was the basis for the classic film version The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), The Incredible Shrinking Woman was conceived in the late ‘70s as a comedic vehicle for Lily Tomlin, already one of the most celebrated comic voices of her generation.
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Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment are going to remake the classic 1957 Incredible Shrinking Man as a comedy vehicle for Eddie Murphy . "That still holds today, where all these advancements that are going to save us will be our undoing.
Louise returns and assumes Butch ate Scott after she finds a bloody scrap of Scott's clothing.
A loose comedic remake, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, followed in 1981 with Lily Tomlin in the lead and the original film also inspired 1989's Honey, I …
"Studio MGM, currently cash-rich following the enormous box office success of the latest films in the James Bond and Middle Earth series, Matheson Sr is a writer whose work is almost as popular with Hollywood genre producers as the ubiquitously adapted Philip K Dick. I lament passing on news of them, and wish they would stop.I love Eddy Murphy and very much want this prodigal son to return to excellence.
In post apocalyptic LA being rampaged by zombie like cannibals humans that have some kind of genetic infection local man renchard is forced to live a daily struggle as he trys to locate radio signals and find a cure. Science fiction-related comedies don’t seem to be good for Murphy’s career.
We get this sombre news from our friends at comingsoon:. 12 years ago. The Incredible Shrinking Man is to be seen on the big screen once again after it was announced that Working with his son Richard Matheson Jr, the author plans an "existential action movie" that will hold true to the cold war themes of the novel and the Hugo award-winning 1957 film which followed it, while taking account of advances in science such as nanotechnology. Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
Brian Grazer is producing the project, which has Eddie Murphy attached to star, says The Hollywood …