Those of you who have seen the cult classic 1990 film Jacob’s Ladder starring Tim Robbins, already know how much of a mind f*&k that film is. Well, news has come out today that there is a remake in the works from the writer of The Midnight Meat Train film, Jeff Buhler, read on for more details.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mickey Liddell’s LD Entertainment is financing a remake of the 1990 movie that starred Tim Robbins which will be produced by Michael Gaeta and Alison Rosenzweig. Liddell is also producing with the company’s Jennifer Monroe.
Jeff Buhler, who wrote the Clive Barker adaptation The Midnight Meat Train, is penning a script building upon an earlier draft by Jake Wade Wall, the scribe behind the 2006 remake of When a Stranger Calls.
The original Ladder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Adrian Lyne, ostensibly told of a Vietnam vet who suffers increasingly bizarre hallucinations and attempts to discover the truth behind them. The movie, which has a twist ending, was made by Carolco and achieved cult hit status.
The producers are looking to make something more akin to an homage and not mimic the original. The plan is to contemporize the story with new situations and characters but still maintain a story that examines issues and poses existential questions.
For me, this fall under the category of Why? There’s far too many remakes today, I wish these Hollywood writers would focus on original ideas instead of bastardizing older films and using someone else’s ideas.
