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Cell: The Movie

Anamnesis

Anamnesis

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Yet another of Stephen King's novels will now become a feature film.

Dimension Films has acquired rights to Stephen King's latest novel "Cell" and has set "Hostel" helmer Eli Roth to direct it.

Rights deal followed King's usual movie rate, $1 against a seven-figure purchase price with enhancements built in.

King's novel is a throwback to his early apocalyptic horror novels. In a single moment, a pulse sent out through cell phones around the world turns every phone user into a crazed, murderous zombie.

Mike Fleiss and Chris Briggs, who with Roth produced "Hostel" and are readying the sequel, will produce "Cell."

Deal marks Dimension's second deal with King, as the studio prepares to cast the Mikael Hafstrom-directed adaptation of the King novella "1408," which Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski adapted. Dimension topper Bob Weinstein said the fast progress to production on that thriller helped the studio's cause with King's new bestseller.

"The combination of technology and horror is fun high-concept," Weinstein said. "And Eli will make it right after he finishes 'Hostel 2.' "

Roth wants to write the pic or co-write it, depending on the time constraints created by his horror sequel, which shoots in Prague.

Roth first dialed in with Bob and Harvey Weinstein when they were pitched "Hostel" by exec producer Quentin Tarantino. The brothers felt the film was too violent, but Roth said they told him later they'd made a mistake and they were determined to get the next one.

Roth said King is his favorite writer and accepted right after reading the book.

"I couldn't put it down. It was such a balls-out horror movie with a smart take on the zombie genre," Roth said.

Project will be steered by Dimension production head Richard Saperstein, senior veep Matt Stein and Brendan Deneen, with CAA repping both the book and director.
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I wasn't too crazy about Roth's previous movies, nor did I think Cell was one of King's finer efforts. Hmm...
 
Roth said King is his favorite writer and accepted right after reading the book.

"I couldn't put it down. It was such a balls-out horror movie with a smart take on the zombie genre," Roth said.
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So, the book's just a movie in disguise?
 
You know, I'm reminded of a scene in King's Bag of Bones, where the protagonist, who is a writer, writes several novels in a spurt of effort, but releases them one at a time. So he builds a repository of his own novels. At times when he doesn't do anything, he can still meet the publisher's book deadline by simply taking out one from his novel repository.

I'm pretty certain King works the same way. The Cell was probably written 10 years ago.

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The original Crash is one weird movie. Worth seeing for the novelty. Didn't know Spader had that lusty look about him until that movie (my first movie with him in it was Stargate).

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direstraits said:
The original Crash is one weird movie. Worth seeing for the novelty. Didn't know Spader had that lusty look about him until that movie (my first movie with him in it was Stargate).

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It was odd wasn't it? I just recently watched it.
 
Stewart said:
What was odd about Crash?
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You mean apart from the people getting turned on by accident scars and having sex in wrecked cars? I suppose by Cronenberg standards that's not THAT odd... I mean, there are no leeches turning people into sex-crazed zombies or typewriters turning into giant bugs... ;)

As said above, there are two movies called Crash. Two VERY different movies. I personally prefer the first one... they're both good, though.
 
Stewart said:
There was already a movie called Crash.
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Not to mention a movie in 1990 called Gladiator, which was about professional boxing.
Anyway since the book is just called Cell I wouldn't expect any changes to the title.
 
beer good said:
You mean apart from the people getting turned on by accident scars and having sex in wrecked cars? I suppose by Cronenberg standards that's not THAT odd... I mean, there are no leeches turning people into sex-crazed zombies or typewriters turning into giant bugs... ;)

As said above, there are two movies called Crash. Two VERY different movies. I personally prefer the first one... they're both good, though.
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No no, that's not the odd part, of course.

The odd part was the car wash taking so long that a quickie was over and done with by the time the car came out the other end.

Now either it was a damn long car wash, or Cronenberg took the word quickie too literally.

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