So, at what point does Regan’s head explode?
Maybe they can have Bruce Willis drill a hole in Regan’s head and stick a nuclear weapon in there!
Ooh, ooh, Shia LaBeouf will make such a cool Father Merrin. I can’t wait. Your mother sews socks that smell!
I don’t understand remaking these masterpieces? For what reason? It’s like putting Venice in Vegas, I guess.
And, I think that’s called The Venetian.
You know, the internet is giving me a headache today. I can’t decide what’s April’s Fools and what’s legit. I think I want to go back to bed and pull the covers over my head until tomorrow.
A stupid question, I know, but what’s the need for this exactly? It’s only been four years since the last Exorcist movie, and that was apparently such a trainwreck that it became two separate, equally unsuccessful movies.
Michael Bay’s mother sucks cocks in hell!
I don’t get it.
Why remake something that turned out great the first time and is timeless?
(Gus Van Sant’s Psycho anyone???)
You would think they’d pick movies that were made that had great stories/plots behind them but were made hopelessly bad and show their age.
Maybe remake the 1960 or 1995 Village of the Damned into something great.
Um, to make money. Duh! Michael Bay always makes money except for The Island for his partners. Just like Hyman Roth.
Besides, Michael Bay will make it AWESOME! Things that you didn’t even realize are combustible will spontaneously explode into flame, and at least two cargo ships worth of exotic sports cars will be destroyed in the ultimate chase scene where Father Merrin leaps from car to car with a GAU-12 Equalizer on each arm while pursuing Megatron and Bonecrusher. (The Transformers tie-in is necessary to appeal to the key 9-13 year old demographic.) I can’t wait until he remakes Chinatown.
The sad thing is, the possibility is sufficiently plausible that it is hard to tell whether it is really an April Fool’s prank or not.
Stranger
I simply don’t believe this story. If it’s not exposed as an April Fool’s prank tomorrow, then I’ll assign it some credibility, but not before.
It’s definitely an April Fool’s prank (of which Dark Horizons’ Garth Franklin is fond) – mouse over the link to “Screen Annual” in that story.
Oh come on people! It’s clearly an April Fools Joke.
I refuse to believe it. Today, tomorrow, yesterday.
FUCK YES!
I would TOTALLY see that, and I’m 33.
I don’t get the hate for Michael Bay. His Verizon commercial summed him up AWESOMEly.
Let me tell you all something right now: each and every one of you would rather see:
“Michael Bay’s The Other Boleyn Girl”
“Michael Bay’s Atonement”
“Michael Bay’s Gone With The Wind”
or
“Michael Bay’s Pretty Woman”
than the originals.
And I will detonate a quarter-million pounds of TNT under anyone who says otherwise.
Well, I do think that he couldn’t do anything to make Pretty Woman any worse. And I’ll admit to a little curiosity about Bay’s take on the American Civil War, which would no doubt include cruise missiles, supersonic stratobombers, and large-bosomed women wielding Desert Eagle pistols in each hand. Now, if he can just work the wisecracking team of Martin Lawrence and Will Smith into the storyline somehow, it might be a hit.
Don’t let him touch Lawrence of Arabia, though.
Stranger
Some of us don’t have quite your appetite for shit.
So, is it an April Fool joke? Problem is, in today’s movie business, it’s entirely plausible.
Sorry; that was overly harsh and sounded like a personal comment. I should have just said, “We don’t all like a steady diet of moronic shit, and I kinda wish that those $150 million budgets wouldn’t keep getting wasted on said moronic shit when there are so many good scripts going unproduced.” That’s better.
Who’s going to go to see a remake of a movie that sucked the first time?
Not that I don’t agree with you, but when you go for the popular stuff you already have a built-in audience–the movie can be shit and it doesn’t matter, because there’s enough initial interest that it’ll still make money.
Happy, I don’t entirely get the Bay hate either (I thought he did an awesome job with Transformers), but I don’t know that this is the type of film he’d be a good director for.
Yeah… the headline does say “April Fools,” and the link for “related news” connects to Wikipedia’s entry for April Fools Day. I’m guessing that wasn’t there yesterday though. 
Not everybody is as entertained by stuff blowing up as you are, and even aside from that his directing style sucks. I think fight sequences suck when you can’t even tell who’s hitting who because the cuts are too fast and random.
Those Michael Bay Verizon ads are, in fact, awesome.