From one Shyamalan story to another…
Back in September Daniel Stamm (THE LAST EXORCISM) had been officially hired to direct the second installment of M. Night Shyamalan’s “Night Chronicles,” a picture tentatively titled REINCARNATE. Now, three days after learning Stamm is also in line to remake French torture picture MARTYRS, the German filmmaker spoke to the L.A. Times and divulged a bit of juice on REINCARNATE. Peep it…
About his relationship with M. Night on the thriller billed as a supernatural 12 ANGRY MEN – Stamm says:
“Night is aware of the person that he is, and the challenge for him is to keep himself out and be there as a mentor. He’ll never tell me to do this or that, but if he has ideas he will call and I just had this idea, ‘What do you think of this?’ He’s an idea guy. It’s always about little bits of inspiration.”
Okay, but what about possibly tainting the name of an undisputed classic (Sidney Lumet’s 1959 masterwork)?
“It’s like ‘The Exorcist’ with ‘The Last Exorcism,'” Stamm explains. “Both are classics that people still have on their minds so you don’t want to step on that. But there’s no reason not to acknowledge it. Our protagonist can borrow from it as long as someone in the movie catches him borrowing from it.”
So, self-conscious cribbing? I can see how that might take a bit of the sting out the situation.
Stamm goes on to speak about the marketing of LAST EXORCISM and how he’ll be more aware of the big picture this time around:
“With ‘Exorcism’ it was so intimate that we never thought about rating, we thought about target audience, we never though about trailer moments. Everything about studio movies we completely disregarded,” Stamm says. “But I think it’s smart to think about these moments instead of realizing in editing you don’t have them and then going to the marketing department and saying, ‘What do we do now?'”
Stamm then goes on to address his desire to work with big name actors, including Michael Cera in a serial killer flick. Don’t believe me, read the rest of the article HERE.
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