Despite some dubious casting choices, there’s still hope that Craig Gillespie’s FRIGHT NIGHT refitting may turn out okay. Remember, our man Matt Withers’ was rather impressed by the script by Marti Noxon (seen right), who knows a thing or two about vampires, having contributed a great deal to TV’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” And that’s not all. You see, Noxon recently spoke to our horror brethren at FEARnet and divulged a bit of info on a 3-dimensional FRIGHT NIGHT for a new generation. Check it…
When asked about the current status of the film and why she elected to get involved, Noxon stated:
“Yeah, it’s about to start production. It’s starting to film in a week in New Mexico. It’s in New Mexico because we’ve revamped the movie and decided to set it in Las Vegas. But more in Clark County and the surrounding areas, the suburbs – dare I say it, Spielbergian surburbia – that also happen to be in Las Vegas. [Laughs.] They came to me saying that they were interested in doing a revamp of the movie, and I was intrigued, and since I’m a big fan I was thrilled to get the opportunity to talk with them about it. I think it’s very faithful in many ways, it’s absolutely recognizable as the original, but it’s also been updated. Obviously time has passed and there’s a lot of interesting stuff to talk about in the genre right now. There’s a lot of vampire stuff. I’ve avoided doing vampire stuff only because what I was hoping for is the vampire who’s not a romantic vampire, but a truly predator type of scary, scary vampire. This gave us the opportunity to go there.”
Nice…we’re definitely with ya there Marti. Screw all the vampire romance bullsh*t. And staying on the topic, Noxon added:
“I think that’s by implication more than directly. I love the Twilight series. I just felt, for myself, that I also just like that kind of more ruthless/less emo kind of guy. But yeah, there’s a little bit of fun-poking to be had.”
And perhaps most intriguing, when grilled about the gay subtext in the original FRIGHT NIGHT, Noxon responded:
“It’s interesting… I think they actually decided to stay away from it. Because times have changed so much. If we had gone there, I think it would have felt too precious and a little coy. There’s already so much gay subtext in vampire stuff. [Laughs] We’ve covered that in Anne Rice, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. We’ve done that. So I think we just kind of moved away from that.
One of the things we did – that was in the original movie but we mined it more – was really about the relationship between Ed and Charlie. We were interested in what happens when you leave your friends behind. A lot of the movie now has a focus on “What does it mean to be a real man?” There’s a lot of stuff in it with more of a focus on masculinity and what it means to be a man.”
There ya go yo…from the writer herself. Now just give us a rated-R version and I’m sure more than a few of us horror hardcores will wanna do business.
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