Fox To Remake The Great Adventure Movie "Romancing the Stone"

04 Dec, 2008

Fox To Remake The Great Adventure Movie “Romancing the Stone”

Posted by: Roya In: Movie

The 1984 adventure movie “Romancing the Stone” was a beginning of exciting careers for such stars as Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito, and Kathleen Turner.

Now Fox studio is to remake the movie, tapping Daniel McDermott, who has thriller “Eagle Eye,” in his resume and currently working on Tom Cruise’s new adventure movie, “Adventurer’s Club,” and a remake of “Soylent Green,” to write the script.

Originally written by Diane Thomas, the movie tells the story of a novelist who travels abroad to find her missing sister and ends up meeting an American soldier of fortune.
The writer wrote the script while working as a waitress in Malibu. It was her only produced screenplay; she died in a car crash the year after the film’s release. [Via The HollywoodReporter]

This might be one of the early sexiest movies I’ve seen. I remember being obsessed with it when I first watched it at the age of 12.

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Mary Fagan 1 month ago 1 point
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Yes, Romancing the Stone was a very exciting and romantic adventure move. But when you consider over 397,000 works are published every year in the English-speaking world alone (Wikipedia’s stats for UK, USA and Canada), why not move on? Why mess with the classics? RARELY do the redos match the quality of the originals.

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roya_ghp 1 month ago 1 point
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Unfortunately movie industry is not always about what might interest audience or publishers. Sometimes it's merely a challenge for a director or a production company to demonstrate their ability in recreating some of the popular movies.
And sometimes economically speaking, they don't want to take risks, esp. ever since internet emerged , the production companies became more conservative in their choices, maybe since they can't really decide in this vast sea of information , what might be an interest of the mainstream.
I agree with your opinion, but it's really not up to us.
Thanks for the comment.

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