In seems like moments ago I just wrote about the push forth on the new FRIDAY THE 13TH film. Well now it seems that Platinum Dunes, production company of the Voorhees vehicle, has finally found a director for their next remake, the Eric Red scripted NEAR DARK.
Music video director Samuel Bayer, who’s directed for The Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, Metallica and others, will step behind the camera for this remake of the Kathryn Bigelow directed, Eric Red written film of the same name.
Matt Venne wrote the screenplay that follows a young man who reluctantly joins a traveling “family” of evil vampires, when the girl he’d tried to seduce is part of that group. This will be the next film from Platinum Dunes, which is headed by Brad Fuller and Andrew Form.
Platinum Dunes have been on the remake binge for a while, pumping out THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, THE HITCHER, THE AMITYVILLE HORROR and the upcoming THE BIRDS. It will be interesting to see what DUNES and Bayer will do with this film, though I may just feel tired of all these remakes very soon.