Today Fangoria posted an interview with Crispin Glover on the remake of Herschell Gordon Lewis’ THE WIZARD OF GORE, which will star Glover alongside Bijou Phillips, Brad Dourif and Jeffrey Combs, and is being directed by Jeremy Kasten (ALL SOULS DAY).
Remarking on the original, Glover said that he could see where VIDEODROME came from. “I haven’t read a lot about David Cronenberg, but I imagine that because of his age, and what his interests were, he would have seen [the original WIZARD],” says Glover. “There are certainly reality plays within that original film, which are interesting—there is stuff to do with television in the first WIZARD, people being hypnotized through TV, so there are similarities between that and VIDEODROME.”
In the remake, Glover is cast as Montag the Magnificent, an underground illusionist whose bloody stage tricks come true for their unfortunate subjects. With regards to the similarities between this update and the original, Glover explains that while there are similarities, there are a number of differences as well. “There are scenes in the original that I liked a lot, and which weren’t in this new screenplay [by Zach Chassler]. However, I requested that they put them in there, and one of those was with Bijou Philips. It’s the showdown scene from the first film, between Montag and the girl; that wasn’t in the new script, but I felt it was really important and I didn’t sign the contract until it was written.” Proof once again that Glover knows his horror, and knows hit shite.
To read the entire interview, head on over here. For the remake’s official page, head on over here.