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Just face facts. Everything you ever loved will eventually be remade. Except Jaws. If they remake Jaws then we riot and burn it all down, right? Shakespeare’s The Tempest was itself remade… kind of… as Forbidden Planet, and now Warner Bros. are going to try again. Because their recent track record is so awesome, right?
The rights issues have been so complex that over the years they put off such talents as James Cameron. Now comic book and screenwriter Brian K. Vaughan and Emma Watts have managed to untangle things, and Warner Bros. has closed the deal for the project.
Vaughan will write, and Watts will produce.
The 1956 science fiction classic Forbidden Planet tells the tale of a 23rd-century expedition sent from Earth to check on a colony of scientists on the far-off planet of Altair IV.
When they arrive, they discover only two survivors – a man who has found alien technology that doubled his intellect, Dr. Edward Morbius, and his beautiful daughter – both of whom have managed to survive the invisible monster roaming the surface. When it starts killing members of the crew, the starship captain must solve the mystery behind what is really going on, all of which is somehow related to an ancient alien relic.
Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen starred in the film. It is considered an exceptional example of early sci-fi and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2013.
Deadline reports that this project matches Watts’ ambition to produce big tentpole features now she is no longer a studio chief.
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