I Walked with a zombie 2010

Jacques Tourneur's extraordinary 1943 film I Walked with a Zombie (which was based partially on Jane Eyre) will be remade next year. The project is a RKO/Roseblood & Twisted Pictures production with Andy Fickman as executive producer, written by Andy Fickman and Debra Sullivan (based on the previous 1943 story by Inez Wallace) and directed by Adam Marcus. It's difficult to imagine how a masterpiece like this can be improved or the necessity of an 'update'. Nevertheless, these are the details:

Andy Fickman has made a deal with Roseblood Movie Company and Twisted Pictures to godfather four remakes from RKO’s horror heyday, including three that were produced by horrormeister Val Lewton. Fickman will direct at least one of the films.
Roseblood is the horror/thriller division of RKO Pictures, and Twisted is the horror division of Evolution Entertainment, financiers and producers of the “Saw” series. The companies will co-finance the films.
The remake properties are the Jacques Tourneur-directed “I Walked With a Zombie” (1943); the Robert Wise-directed Bela Lugosi-Boris Karloff starrer “The Body Snatcher” (1945); the Mark Robson-directed Karloff starrer “Bedlam” (1946); and the John Farrow-directed Lucille Ball-John Carradine starrer “Five Came Back” (1939). (Michael Fleming in Variety)

The producer Andy Fickman says about the film:

I'm producing and writing on these RKO remakes with Twisted Pictures of the Val Lewton Library and the first one up, "I Walked with a Zombie" that Adam Marcus is going to direct and I'm producing. We're just getting ready to start going out for casting on that. We'll film that in New Orleans in the spring and just the notion of being on the set and focusing on it as a producer, and trying to give my director as much support as I possibly can. Now I'll start looking at what the next movie will be on my development slate, which one will be ready or is there another one coming up? Hopefully in the summer or the fall I'll start getting back behind the lens. (Edward Douglas in ComingSoon.net)

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