I’ve always loved the 1983 film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Cujo, it did for St. Bernards what Jaws did for Sharks in my eyes. Now we have gotten word seemingly out of left field there is a remake of Cujo in the works, and we have not heard anything about this until now, wow! We have the details and a nifty sales video for you to enjoy below.
From The Press Release
Lang Elliott, President & CEO of Sunn Classic Pictures, Inc., announced that Sunn plans to produce the remake of “CUJO” this year representing the 30th Anniversary since Sunn produced and distributed the original “CUJO” motion picture in 1983, based upon Stephen King’s novel. The 1983 version was highly successful at the worldwide box-office and, compared with today’s inflation and higher ticket prices, the box-office would be well over $225 million even without ancillary sales (i.e., DVD, cable, free television, pay-per-view, etc.).
“CUJO” is the story of a large, playful St. Bernard dog that is transformed into a hideous killing machine after being infected by rabies. Donna Trenton’s car is on the fritz, and she and her son take her ailing automobile to their mechanic. Upon their arrival, the car stalls and refuses to restart. The mechanic fails to appear so Donna searches for him. The transformed, maniacal “CUJO” reveals himself; he is highly agitated and very aggressive. Donna hardly recognizes this filthy, monstrous creature foaming at the mouth. Suddenly “CUJO” charges Donna, who barely makes it back into the car for protection. Trapped with her son and the windows rolled up, the sweltering heat begins to take its toll. “CUJO’s” powerful state of insanity and violence await.
I’m sure we’ll have more on this as it comes in!
I’m definitely interested to see where they go with it, but at the same time I’m really annoyed with all these remakes these days. All the classics from the 80s and 90s are being remade and most of the new versions unfortunately suck. I mean the Nightmare on Elm Street remake was unnecessary and awful. I want to see something fresh, something that’s never been done before. As a young filmmaker I am hoping to bring that in the future and show people that horror isn’t dead.
Really hoping that there’s no CGI. Also, it’d be great if the movie had the same ending as the book…just sayin!
They had better hurry up and start filming if they plan for it to be “coming in 2013”.