Adam Berg To Direct Remake Of Cronenberg's VIDEODROME

Todd Brown, Founder and Editor
The first rumblings of a planned remake of David Cronenberg's Videodrome began to circulate all the way back in 2009, rumblings that most people tended to brush off at the time because, hey! It's Videodrome! And Videodrome is clearly too weird for a major studio to take interest in, right?

And for the next couple years there was silence on the matter, encouraging people to believe that their initial response was correct. Well, no more.

Universal have attached commercial director Adam Berg to direct the remake from a script by Ehren Kruger, who is also on board as a producer. There is no word who will replace original star James Woods.

This will be Berg's feature debut but he has been in high demand for quite some time now thanks to a string of award winning commercials and short films. You want a taste? Check out Carousel below.
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  • https://www.google.com/account

    As much as the last horror remake.

  • ChevalierAguila

    So, how much is this going to suck?

  • iatethirtybugs

    Just re-watched this movie a couple weeks ago. Great movie. I'd like to keep it that way. why can people just make their own films?

  • VyceVictus

    Your great movie wills stay great. Nothings going to happen to it. It's not going anywhere.

  • It's on my shelf right now, in fact, in a lovely Criterion edition that I really do need to dive into one of these days ...

  • Ard Vijn

    And in case you think I'm mad, look for yourself:

    http://ee.twitchfilm.com/site/forums/viewthread/10/P15/#1815

  • VyceVictus

    That is super rad. (Also I never even realized there was a forum.)

  • Ard Vijn

    It's dormant at the moment (used almost only as an image archive) but we have a few plans to restart it... soon!

  • Ard Vijn

    That Criterion edition made me panic when I opened the package. It looked like I had accidentally ordered the VHS (my heart jumped even further when I thought I saw a Betamax tag...).

  • koay.allan

    yeah, i loved Kent and even have their 10-CD box set. but they've become a crap dance music group.

  • MarsHottentot

    RAHHHH!!! I'm bleeding! From the nosal area!

  • Joshua Chaplinsky

    I'm not die hard anti-remake, but this just seems silly.

    Also, I was a HUGE Kent fan, until they went all electro-pop.

  • per.samurang

    Adam Berg has made many of swedish rock group Kent music videos. He also did a TV movie called "In" very dark tale..

    I´m not much for remakes but I hope he can do something dark and twisted of this project. Hope he can make his own mark on it and not just a carbon copy.

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