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 Posted:   Mar 12, 2025 - 11:19 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Remake in process from Netflix.

No attached director yet, just a producer.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/stephen-king-cujo-remake-netflix-1236161363/

No IMDb page yet.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 12, 2025 - 7:58 PM   
 By:   Zach79   (Member)

Another unnecessary remake. The original is all we need. I’m not sure the story would even work in this modern day and age. Cameras would trace Donna’s every movement and she’d likely have a mobile phone on her.

 
 Posted:   Mar 12, 2025 - 9:15 PM   
 By:   SchiffyM   (Member)

A few years ago, I was cleaning out boxes in my attic and I found a copy of Variety from about 1998 that I had no idea why I'd kept. So I thumbed through the whole issue looking for some clue (never found it – maybe it had just fallen into the box?).

Anyway, there were dozens of movies announced in that issue, starring the likes of Mel Gibson and coming from A-list directors. The only thing they all had in common is that twenty years later, not a single one of them had ever actually been made.

Maybe this Cujo will happen, maybe not. But really not a lot of reason to think about a score for it at this point.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 12, 2025 - 10:55 PM   
 By:   Tobias   (Member)

Another unnecessary remake.

That is something I disagree with. The reason is that there is always one positive thing about remakes that most people forget and that is thanks to remakes people who does not know about the original and because of that have not seen the original can now discover the original. So the original movie always benefit from remakes.

For example back when Steven Soderbergh was making his Ocean`s Elevern remake I had heard about the original one but not seen it so because of the remake I went on to watch the original Ocean`s Eleven and that is something I would have never done if Soderbergh had not made the remake.

So younger audience who are not aware of the original movie now can discover the original thanks to the remake. Just because we are old enough to have seen and or at least heard of a specific old movie that does not mean that everyone else especially younger people know and seen what we have seen so therefore I totally disagree with your statement.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2025 - 12:16 AM   
 By:   Randy Watson   (Member)

Maybe this Cujo will happen, maybe not. But really not a lot of reason to think about a score for it at this point.

Yeah, I really don't understand this obsession for creating a thread for every film that is rumored to be made. It's not like this Reddit and you get karma points for every thread that you start.

By the time a composer will actually be announced, nobody will take the time to search the forum to see if a thread already exists and they will just create a new one.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2025 - 12:33 AM   
 By:   haineshisway   (Member)

But no one mentions The Faculty remake? Huh, Justin?

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2025 - 12:40 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Yeah, I really don't understand this obsession for creating a thread for every film that is rumored to be made. It's not like this Reddit and you get karma points for every thread that you start.

Yes, it's rather strange, especially for something on such an early stage.

By the way, I see no issue with a CUJO remake, should that happen. It's just another take on the book. Several books have been made into films multiple times.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2025 - 1:28 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

If it's still a remote farm, all they have to do is have the phone battery die or show No Signal and they're covered.
Be interesting to see if they stick with the original King 'downer' ending which the Lewis Teague film copped out on.
The original film isn't great, but it's pretty decent for a Stephen King movie around that time (a lot of them were terrible, IIRC).
The Charles Bernstein score is terrific though, one of my absolute favourites by him, and I wonder who's got to come in and drone away against THAT precedent.
And yes, the great NEW FILM THREAD race (I think LeBlanc and Boggin lead the field by miles) is pretty funny.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2025 - 1:47 AM   
 By:   Randy Watson   (Member)

By the way, I see no issue with a CUJO remake, should that happen. It's just another take on the book. Several books have been made into films multiple times.

I re-read the novel recently and actually thought a new take on it could be interesting. It definitely has the potential for tight and visceral horror-thriller, especially if they keep King's original ending. I do hope they stick to the novel's time period so they don't have use cheesy things like a dead phone battery or no signal.

And besides, it's not like the original is such on an iconic film on the level of The Shining or Carrie or anything (which also hasn't stopped people for remaking those)

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2025 - 3:37 AM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

she’d likely have a mobile phone on her.

They can have her not get any service where she is. Or accidentally leave her phone at home... for reasons.

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2025 - 9:14 AM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

"Look out, here comes Cujo...!"

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2025 - 9:18 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Make him has super bad guydog powers and he can fight Super Dog.

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2025 - 10:47 AM   
 By:   drop_forge   (Member)

Road House, Point Break, The Fog, Firestarter, Psycho, Overboard, etc. The originals get lauded, the remakes get blotted. I'll be here all week.

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2025 - 10:52 AM   
 By:   SchiffyM   (Member)

Road House, Point Break, The Fog, Firestarter, Psycho, Overboard, etc. The originals get lauded, the remakes get blotted. I'll be here all week.

Yeah, but you could make an alternate list with The Thing, The Fly, A Star is Born, True Grit, Ocean’s Eleven, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Cape Fear, and Dune, couldn't you?

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2025 - 11:09 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

But no one mentions The Faculty remake? Huh, Justin?

I selectively start threads for films coming/developing, not cover everything.


So, who would make a god Cujo composer? Director and producers aside.

I guess it would depend on what type of film is made, style seems to dictate what type of score will be applied, so it seems a little to much.

If it's a serious approach, not full jump scares and awful clichés and plot holes so big AlGore and Shamoo could fit threw it and still have room left over, I would go out of left field and chose James Peterson. Yes, specifically I am obviously thinking of his score to The Red Canvas.

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2025 - 2:02 PM   
 By:   drop_forge   (Member)

Road House, Point Break, The Fog, Firestarter, Psycho, Overboard, etc. The originals get lauded, the remakes get blotted. I'll be here all week.

Yeah, but you could make an alternate list with The Thing, The Fly, A Star is Born, True Grit, Ocean’s Eleven, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Cape Fear, and Dune, couldn't you?


I could also wax about McDonald's terrible bestselling food.

Some of those movies have been remade more than once. The Body Snatchers films in the wake of 1978's perfect iteration by Philip Kaufman fall far short of the mark.

The 2011 version of The Thing they insisted over and over wasn't a remake of Carpenter's remake was awful.

Aren't the two most recent remakes of A Star is Born (Streisand, Lady Gaga) regarded as the best? I've yet to watch either.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 14, 2025 - 12:04 AM   
 By:   Randy Watson   (Member)

Make him has super bad guydog powers and he can fight Super Dog.

You joke but about ten years ago they tried to make a very different take on Cujo, namely C.U.J.O. (Canine Unit Joint Operations)

 
 Posted:   Mar 14, 2025 - 2:30 AM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)


Remake this instead.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 14, 2025 - 9:52 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

John Scott?
Laurence Rosenthal?
Stu Phillips?

 
 Posted:   Mar 14, 2025 - 9:53 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

John Scott?
Laurence Rosenthal?
Stu Phillips?


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What are: Composers to good for this film, Alex?

 
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