It appears that DISTURBIA scribe Christopher Landon is working on a reworking of Stephen King’s CHRISTINE (read the Arrow’s review of the 1983 John Carpenter flick). If you remember correctly, CHRISTINE is the charming tale about a boy’s love for his possessed and homicidal automobile.
Apparently the remake of CHRISTINE has been riddled with all sorts of pre-production problems, including where the movie will be utilized; more specifically if it will be making it’s return for the small screen or the big screen. In a recent interview with Comingsoon.net, Landon had this to say: “[‘Christine’] has been all over the place,” he says, alluding to the property’s travels as a rumored SCI FI Channel Original to Sony and NBC’s plans to turn it into an event telepic. “If it happens or not we’ll see, but when I came in what I wanted to do was really go back to the book, the source material. I’m a fan of the Carpenter version, it is fun. But the book was much more of a possession story than it was just a killer car. That’s what made the book so great is that what was so terrifying was that it wasn’t just about an inanimate object running around and killing people, it was a boy who was sorta being taken over by the former owner of the car – and there was something more terrifying about that. Also, I just love the dynamics of the characters and so forth. Right now it’s way too soon say anything else about it. We’re so in the thick of deal-making, I don’t want to blow anything else!”