We talked about the fact that Fox were planning this quite some time ago, then we had vainly hoped it was going to be a new film, not a remake. Well not so according to Coming Soon:
20th Century Fox has hired Behind Enemy Lines and Flight of the Phoenix helmer John Moore to direct The Omen 666, reports Variety. The film is a remake of the 1976 horror classic about the arrival of the Antichrist in the home of an unsuspecting family. Dan McDermott is writing a script that contemporizes the story. The project is on a fast track
There’s a couple of things that worry me about the quote, first the plot description makes it sound like a comedy, “Hello there Dad! I’m the AntiChrist!”. However the big two worrying phrases are “contemporises the story” and “on fast track”. Bets on it being ruined are? Why can’t they leave these remakes and make some decent, original movies?
