Sep 23 2008'Rashomon 2010': The 'Rashomon' of the FUTURE
Whenever I learn someone I know hasn't seen Akira Kurosawa's 1950 classic, Rashomon, it usually turns out they've been avoiding it for one of two reasons: either because it's old and foreign, or because the title fails to imply there will be anyone in a giant, futuristic mech suit. Thank god Harbor Light Entertainment and Lotus are about to fix both those issues, remaking the film as Rashomon 2010:
Los Angeles-based Harbor Light Entertainment and Tokyo-based Lotus have assembled an international consortium to remake helmer Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic "Rashomon."Action will be moved from ancient Japan to contempo America, where a court must decide the facts about the rape of a woman and the murder of her husband.
Harbor Light and Lotus will be joined by L.A.’s Lexicon Filmed Entertainment and Singapore’s Upside Down Entertainment on the English-language project, "Rashomon 2010."
Yeah, what was Kurosawa thinking setting Rashomon in ancient Japan? It was already dated when he was making it! Every movie should be set in America, in modern times, with the date clearly identified in the title so that you know it's not set in ancient times. Rashomon is bullshit, but it's already clear Rashomon 2010's legacy will live on forever, until January 2011.
'Rashomon' remake finds a Harbor [Variety]
Reader Comments
1. Chris - September 23, 2008 4:24 PM
I hope instead of telling what already happened from alternate points of view, it tells us things that may happen in alternate future time lines.
2. Harry Coe - September 23, 2008 4:29 PM
It should star Adam Sandler with some sort of Magic Fisher-Price Varying-View-Point Veiw-Master (in 3-D)!
3. thanks for asking - September 23, 2008 5:29 PM
that picture looks dirty O_o
4. K lee - September 23, 2008 6:07 PM
@ 3
She's getting raped, you fucktard.
5. thanks for asking - September 23, 2008 11:27 PM
well shit I was just kidding! I've never seen the movie... that;s a chick!?!
6. james - September 24, 2008 9:35 AM
to hell with the original... how do they think they can improve on the Shatner-driven western remake?!?
SHATNER!
7. Hal - September 24, 2008 1:20 PM
If you are going to remake a classic, it will only work through the wacky kaliedescope of Hollywood science fiction. I'd be WAY more stoked about that Moby Dick movie if it was sci-fi. God willing it will be.
8. Aerialgreen - September 25, 2008 6:16 PM
Never thought one of the summoning techniques of Orochimaru could go on a solo-movie without the backup of the Narutoverse.
9. Amy - September 26, 2008 10:33 AM
Eerily similar to the proposal to make an updated Americanised Akira. Did anything ever come of that one?