{"id":3374,"date":"2009-05-27T07:23:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T11:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2009-05-26T12:22:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:22:47","slug":"i-find-this-vaguely-depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=3374","title":{"rendered":"I Find This Vaguely Depressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/frightnight-126x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fright Night\" title=\"Fright Night\" width=\"126\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>DreamWorks is going to remake <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/film\/news\/e3id56fc6d97f8a77c169048a5c8aa2db4e\">Fright Night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They promise that the new version will keep the &#8220;comedy-horror tone,&#8221; and as nearly as I can tell it&#8217;s pretty much going to be the same movie but with updated special effects.  I really can&#8217;t imagine anyone capably filling Chris Sarandon&#8217;s or Roddy McDowell&#8217;s shoes, and rather doubt that shiny CGI effects will make up for their absence.<\/p>\n<p>I vote that we immediately institute some sort of official review panel that has to approve any potential remake of a movie before production can begin. And if they\u2019re presented with some kind of wacky &#8220;reimagining&#8221; of a much-beloved film, they\u2019re allowed to slap the writers.<\/p>\n<p>(Bonus Update: I find <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5269598\/buffy-remake-without-joss-whedonites-will-burn-la-to-the-ground-first\">this<\/a> really, <em>really<\/em> depressing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DreamWorks is going to remake Fright Night. They promise that the new version will keep the &#8220;comedy-horror tone,&#8221; and as nearly as I can tell it&#8217;s pretty much going to be the same movie but with updated special effects. I really can&#8217;t imagine anyone capably filling Chris Sarandon&#8217;s or Roddy McDowell&#8217;s shoes, and rather doubt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}