Well. This is a surprise. Variety is reporting that Larry Fessenden has signed on to direct an English language remake of JA Bayona's horror tale The Orphanage with Guillermo Del Toro - who produced the original and groomed Bayona to direct - to once again fill the producer's chair. I have no idea how I feel about this, honestly. I don't think the original needs to be remade but I do enjoy Fessenden's work, so whatever keeps the guy busy and paying his bills is okay with me, I suppose. One things is for certain: Bayona and Fessenden are very different directors so don't expect anything along the lines of a shot-for-shot redo here if Fessenden is given any say at all.
If it's a redo, don't do it. If it's not a redo, call it something else (i.e. Fistful fo Dollars and Yojimbo)
I know how I feel about this: unhappy.
Yet another completely unnecessary remake.
think this pure and simply is a waste of everyone's time and energy
the orphanage is fine as it is and only a few years old as well
even if fessenden comes up with something decent it's a shame the whole hollywood money-game will have kept him from coming up with something of his own (and his last few movies have mainly made me want to see where his own development will lead him)
There were moment when the Orphanage worked for me, but when the credits rolled my feelings were that it was a piece of shit.
If somebody wants to take a stab at it and might produce a better film, I'm all for it. There was a kernel of goodness in the movie.
Really enjoyed the original, and as usual in these cases, I am completely uninterested in a remake, regardless of who is behind the camera. I wish that the Hollywood studio system would invest in developing their own unique visions for moviemaking. But at the end of the day, I believe that is an increasingly rare commodity in that system. I rarely watch mainstream studio pictures..and that isn't likely to change anytime soon.
This is bizarre indeed.
Saw Fessenden on the street in NYC once. He chained his bicycle in front of my building and I almost walked right into him and his trademark toothlessness.
Well, Larry Fessenden seems to be a bad director and I don't think he would be able to make this movie's end good. I think its going to be a failure. I bet 20$.
Remakes are butt.