The 1980s favourite 'WarGames' will be given a high-tech makeover, moving away from its Cold War origins. Set upon by a werewolf, despite British police insisting Goodman was killed and Kessler attacked by a madman, pretty soon Kessler is howling at the moon and growing hair in strange places.įittingly, Landis’s writer and actor son, Max Landis, will make his directorial debut with the remake, in which a young woman travelling across the UK with her boyfriend gets bitten. Written and shot by John Landis, it starred David Naughton and Griffin Dunne as David Kessler and Jack Goodman, two American backpackers from New York, who don’t beware the full moon as advised by the regulars at the Slaughtered Lamb pub on the Yorkshire moors. With special effects considered groundbreaking on its release in 1981, the film went on to win the first Academy Award for Best Make-up. 'An American Werewolf in London' won the first ever Academy Awards for Best Make-up, thanks to its groundbreaking special effects in transforming actor David Naughton into a werewolf.

Russell Brand was the most recent actor connected with the remake, although he has since dropped out. Slammed as “easily one of the worst films I’ve ever seen” by the Chicago Tribune’s film critic Gene Siskel, and a “largely uninteresting and unfunny comedy” by the Radio Times, over the years it has become a cult classic. The 1991 film starring Phoebe Cates and British comic actor Rik Mayall as her childhood imaginary friend come to life was roundly panned on its release. ‘Drop Dead Fred’īritish comic actor Rik Mayall starred as an imaginary friend come to life in 'Drop Dead Fred'. The latest iteration of the classic, set to be released in 2022, stars German-Spanish actor Daniel Bruhl, last seen lighting up the small screen as Baron Zemo in Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

A 1979 TV movie followed, starring Ernest Borgnine, and the tale frequently features in “best films” lists, owing to its portrayal of German soldiers’ physical and mental stress during the Great War. The classic First World War novel, published in 1928, was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1930. The 1930 film 'All Quiet on the Western Front' was a critically acclaimed look at the First World War from the German soldiers' perspective.

The remake will star A Quiet Place’s Noah Jupe and Defending Jacob’s Jaeden Martell, and will be helmed by British director Jonathan Entwistle, who lensed the recent critical hit I Am Not Okay With This.

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