It?s Only A Movie!
From variety.com
Finally, after a long search for the perfect writer/director, Wes Craven has opted for Dennis Iliadis to direct and Adam Alleca to write the remake of his 1972 horror film Last House On The Left. The film, being produced for Rogue under Craven?s Midnight Pictures, centers on killers who inadvertently seek refuge with the parents of one of their victims. Craven says the film will carry a more realistic tone while still keeping the spirit of the original.
According to variety.com, Midnight is finalizing a deal for Dennis Iliadis to direct the redo, with Adam Alleca on board to rewrite.
Craven is producing with Midnight cohort Marianne Maddalena and Sean S. Cunningham. Latter produced the 1972 original.
He said they chose Iliadis because they found his pic Hardcore "so compelling and real." Alleca has another project in development at Midnight called Home, and had previously approached Craven about revisiting The People Under the Stairs, his 1991 pic. There are no plans yet for that to be remade, but Craven hasn't ruled it out. He recently revisited his 1977 pic, The Hills Have Eyes, in a sequel for Fox Atomic.
"It's kind of working its way back," he said.
He said part of the reason he's revisiting earlier films is that those are ones over which he had more ownership control, and partly it's because he figured, "Why not?"
Craven expects to begin production on The Last House on the Left early next year.
Craven formed Midnight a year ago with the mission of finding new voices for horror pics with budgets of less than $15 million. The remake for The Last House on the Left was included in his Rogue deal (Daily Variety, Sept. 28, 2006).
