Hammer

[robin_d_laws]

A new investment group has acquired the rights to Hammer Films’ back catalogue and properties. Like the group they bought it from, they’re promising to revive the venerable horror brand with new movies and a 21st century media strategy

Comments

[ffutures]

Another Captain Kronos film would be fun.

[princeofcairo]

If all it gets us is a decent DVD release of a Terence Fisher Boxed Set, it'll be worth whatever terrible dreck they decide to shovel out the door.

[richardthinks]

this reminds me rather of the rights to Gormenghast, which, IIRC, were in Sting's hands at some point. They eventually made some sort of BBC (or BBC-style) drama out of it, I think?

I don't know if it was any good... but maybe that's who should be taking on Hammer: the budget and set design are about right, and they've got plenty of quirky, lovable actors, and the rep theatre sensibility would fit a series of 1 to 2 hour teleplays perfectly (Inspector Morse proved that it's possible to do feature-length episodes on a regular basis).

They could do the complete stories of Poe. Or Lovecraft...

Sci-Fi channel?

[anonymous]

Maybe they could make films for the Sci-Fi channel, or do movies direct to video for the rental chains and video on demand.

[gamerguy]

When someone tried this with Universal's monster gallery, we got 'Van Helsing'. I can only imagine what kind of train wreck this idea could produce.