Could We Be Getting Another David Cronenbeg Helmed ‘The Fly’ Movie?
David Cronenberg’s ‘The Fly’ starring Jeff Goldblum was critically acclaimed. However the sequel that followed did not quite receive the same praise. Since then it’s had an aborted sequel and remake. In 2009 it was rumored that Cronenberg would be directing a second remake of the film. Addressing the rumors he stated that it wasn’t exactly a remake but more a “sort of” sequel.
In 2011 Cronenberg stated in an interview “I have written a script that is more of a strange lateral, let’s say oblique sequel than it is a true sequel, and it’s certainly not a remake of the original. It’s financed by Fox, and whether it will get made or not, I cannot say at the moment because there are a lot of up-in-the-air factors that deal with internal studio politics and a bunch of other things that I’m not in control of. But I would make it if they greenlight it, let’s put it that way.”
And in a recent interview with Empire he further elaborated:
“Well, I did talk to Fox, because my agent found out that they were approaching people to do a remake of my film. He sort of said, ‘Well, you know, what about David?’ And they said, ‘Well, we never thought of that!’ I think they’d been to Guillermo del Toro and Michael Bay. I said, ‘Long ago I proposed a sequel to Mel Brooks when he said he wanted to make a sequel.’ He didn’t like what I proposed because he said it wasn’t the same as the original movie. ‘A sequel,’ he said, ‘should be more of the same.’ And I said, ‘Well, Mel, then I’m not interested.’ And he went off and did his sequels and they had nothing to do with me and they weren’t very successful. But I still had this idea in mind – which no, I won’t tell you – and I said to Fox, ‘I’ll write that idea up because, as I think of it, it could be interesting.’ And they were excited about it enough to pay me to write a script. And then for various reasons it kind of got bogged down. I don’t know exactly why. It seems now that it’s not going to happen. But it’s a script that I like and would do. It’s not exactly a sequel, and it’s certainly not a remake. More a meditation … it involves teleportation.”
