Max Nicholson at ign.com has an article titled, “Found Footage in the Carrie Remake?” in which he discusses some hints Roger Birnbaum has dropped about the upcoming Carrie movie.
The article re-emphasizes that the movie will be more of an adaptation of the Carrie novel than a remake of the 1976 horror classic.
Carrie is structured not only by Kings narration, but also with official documentsthat give the reader background and insights as to what is happening. Nicholson explains that the epistolary elements of Carrie are like “found footage.” How will this be handled in the new movie?
Nicholson then writes, “With that in mind, Birnbaum has implied that the new movie will feature found footage segments to be interspersed throughout.”
“. . . this will likely be done through a series of interviews framing the story as opposed to the traditional POV style that we've grown accustomed to over the last several years. But only time will tell how these scenes will be visually interpreted.”
The full article is HERE.
Interesting. It's novel approach, you got to give them that. To be fair, none of this would even be thought of without Blair Witch and t's related material.
ReplyDeletePersonally I'm still waiting to see what can be done with a book like House of Leaves. The obvious thing there is to make a similar mockumentary horror movie played straight.
Another idea is one I find more interesting. Can't you just see House of Leaves as an interactive computer game along the lines of Myst except with more video footage?
You could make you're way through the game collecting more video footage along with articles and interviews and items.
That's as far as I got on the details, but I still say the idea has merit. That was one of the few books that had me looking around my room whenever I finish reading a section.
ChrisC
Blair Witch was terrible!
ReplyDeleteMaybe, still you got to admit it started a trend. I mean would Romero have made film like Diary of the Dead if it hadn't been for Witch?
DeleteYou could make the argument that what came after perfected on a prototype and in some cases did a lot better, although with the knock offs saturating the market these days, well, they say hell is repetition. I still say "Leaves" would make a good interactive game.
ChrisC
"The Blair Witch Project" is one of my favorite movies. Not horror movies; movies of ANY kind. Absolutely terrifying.
DeleteAlso, King himself is on record as saying it scared him so badly he had to turn it off for a while. So I'm in good company!
But a lot of people hate it; I work at a theatre, and when it came out, I gave out so many refunds it was silly.
Here's how a found-footage element can work in this movie. If the investigation into the prom is used as some sort of framing device, they can be interviewing Sue about it all, and using footage that she and/or other people shot as evidence. For example, let's say that the prom footage itself is found footage, and that any scenes involving people testifying about Carrie is found footage.
ReplyDeleteThat would work just fine. Heck, even the final scene from the novel -- the letter from the random person in Kentucky or wherever it is, whose daughter has started showing signs of telekinetic ability -- could be done this way. It could be a YouTube clip or something.
Then, within that structure, a more traditional film narrative could be used for the scene showing Carrie's home life, and the relationships between the various characters (Sue and Tommy, Chris and Billy, etc.).
It COULD work really, really well.