The horror genre is no stranger to remakes, with tons of them bring released over the years. Some of these remakes have made sense, others not so much.
Well today
another remake has been confirmed via Bloody Disgusting. A remake of the 1978
evil doll movie Magic, set to be directed by…Sam Raimi?!
Roy Lee, the
producer of this project, let it slip during an episode of the Post Mortem with
Mick Garris podcast that he is producing a new take on Magic and that Sam Raimi
himself is directing!!
“I’ve only
worked with [Sam Raimi] as a producer on films…actually…the first time I’m gonna work with him as a director is on a remake of
Magic,” Roy Lee tells Mick Garris. “Which is something that we’re working
on now. The Anothony Hopkins movie. We’re
actually just hearing the final versions of the different takes from writers
next week.”
“[Sam] loved
the original movie and and the book written by William Goldman,” Lee adds.
In the
original movie, which is an adaptation Goldman’s book of the same name from
1976, “A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to
renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.”
I’ll be
completely honest with you all…until I saw the report from Bloody Disgusting, I
had no clue that this movie even existed.
But now??
This film just jumped to the top of my watch list, and I’ll be putting out a
review of it soon.
You can listen to the full episode of the Post Mortem podcast with this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/roy-lee/id1204949508?i=1000580882539
Roy Lee has
produced countless horror movies over the years including, but not limited to: Don’t Worry Darling, Barbarian, His House,
IT, IT Chapter Two, Doctor Sleep, Blair Witch, and the upcoming Salem’s Lot remake.
Sam Raimi
recently directed the smash hit Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
for Marvel, a horror-heavy superhero movie that brought the mastermind behind
the Evil Dead Trilogy back into the horror genre.
And from the
sounds of it, he isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Stay tuned for more updates
on this project as they develop.
Thank you so much for reading, and I’ll see you in the next issue.
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