Movies | April 11, 2011 | 10 comments

You won't even recognize Cloverfield director's They Live reboot

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The director of Cloverfield has just signed on to make his next movie, and it's based on the same material that inspired John Carpenter's cult classic They Live.

Deadline reports that Matt Reeves will write and direct a movie based on the 1963 science fiction short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by Ray Nelson. The story follows a man who wakes up one morning and realizes that there are aliens surrounding us and controlling every move we make. The story was used as the starting point for Carpenter's 1988 film, in which an underground resistance used special glasses to be able to detect the aliens hidden under human disguises.

Apparently none of the business with the glasses will find its way into Reeves' film, so the studio (Universal) is not looking to market this as a remake. The story will serve as the basis for Reeves' own take on the concept.

Reeves said about the project, "I saw an opportunity to do a movie that was very point-of-view-driven, a psychological science fiction thriller that explores this guy's nightmare. There could be a desperate love story at the center of this. Carpenter took a satirical view of the material and the larger political implication that we're being controlled. I am very drawn to the emotional side, the nightmare experience with the paranoia of Invasion of the Body Snatchers or a Roman Polanski-style film."

The filmmaker, whose last effort was 2010's critically acclaimed Let Me In (itself a remake of the Swedish vampire tale Let the Right One In), also said he was still interested in doing a sequel to Cloverfield, adding, "If we crack a story we all love, we'll do it."


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10 comments // You won't even recognize Cloverfield director's They Live reboot

  • IrishmanHorror
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      IrishmanHorror  

    • "So Im thinking about maybe remaking this amazing movie because it seems all the more poignant in todays world, except im going to take out everything that makes any sort political stance, you know the thing that made They Live a poignant story"

    • 1 year ago
  • aaron1972
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      aaron1972  

    • I know this is going to sound really dumb... but here goes...

      I was a sophomore in high school in 1988 when John Carpenter's They Live came out the weekend before Election Day. (George Bush beats Dukakis in a landslide). I had grown up as a child in Reagan's America. I was living in a suburb of Chicago... heavily white and Republican.

      I was already a fan of Carpenter's work... from Halloween to The Thing to Prince of Darkness etc. I took several of my friends to see "They Live"...

      ...and I kid you not... that film helped shape my political leanings to this day.

      The satirical concept of the Reagan Revolution being masterminded by corporate-profit loving aliens determined to exploit our natural resources and turn our planet into their third world did more to steer me towards Democratic politicians and policies than any amount of convention speeches or newspaper editorials ever could. I know it sounds ridiculous... but I was at the right age, at the right time to have this "influence" in my consciousness.

      On its surface, They Live is an erratic and uneven film. I would not stand in anyone's way if they didn't like it or appreciate it.

      I just know... there was a cosmic confluence that my favorite filmmaker managed to convince me Republicans were not of this world and had to be stopped.

      "You see them on the streets. You watch them on TV. You may even vote for one this Fall. You think they're people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong." (tagline from the film)

    • 1 year ago
  • KB723
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      KB723  

    • Hmmmm. Don't know what to say... I have never heard of or seen any of these movies mentioned... Thanks for posting this, now I have a new venture to follow...

    • 1 year ago
  • dudefromtherock
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      dudefromtherock  
    • KB723:

      Are you serious ? You haven't seen "They Live" it's fackin' awesome! A true trip down 80's sci-fi and a awesome story. Annnnd it stars Rowdy Roddy Piper of WWF Wrestling fame.

    • 1 year ago
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