Classic horror becomes miniseries
If classic – and other – movies didn’t already have to watch their backs with the remake beast hunting them all down, now what American telly networks are calling “limited series” (miniseries to us mortals) are on the lookout for fresh blood too. The latest announcement finds Rosemary’s Baby on track to become a TV project.
NBC boss Bob Greenblatt revealed at the Television Critics’ Association summer press tour that the network is planning a re-telling off Ira Levin’s novel, which provided the fuel for Roman Polanski’s beloved 1968 chiller about a young wife (Mia Farrow) who becomes mysteriously pregnant and discovers it’s all part of a terrible supernatural plan. The new version, which has yet to begin casting, finds a young couple moving to Paris and undergoing similar horrors.
And that’s not the only title set for a reboot, as the network will also look to try a new version of Stephen King’s 1987 novel The Tommyknockers. The tale of a small Maine town whose inhabitants fall under the sway of a buried UFO was already tried as a miniseries back in 1993, but will surface once again alongside a series with Diane Lane playing Hilary Clinton and a sequel to the successful Bible miniseries, which helped kick-start the current fad among the major networks across the pond.
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