Donald Sutherland Blasts Don’t Look Now Remake Plans

Remakes of long-established classics don’t tend to be that well-received among devotees of the original - or, in many instances, with people that worked on the original.

This is most definitely the case with ‘Don’t Look Now,’ the revered cult horror masterpiece from director Nicolas Roeg, for which remake plans were announced earlier this year.

The original film’s leading man Donald Sutherland has nothing but contempt for the idea.

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Speaking to Metro ahead of his appearance in the upcoming ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2,’ the 80-year old actor advised the people behind the remake, “Don’t embarrass yourselves by making it. Don’t embarrass yourselves by participating in it. It’s bulls**t.”

Based on a Daphne Du Maurier story, ‘Don’t Look Now’ starred Sutherland and Julie Christie as a married couple struggling to come to terms with the death of their infant daughter, who come to believe her spirit is trying to reach them.

It’s widely regarded as one of the finest, and certainly most mature and sophisticated horror films ever made - and Sutherland certainly seems to concur with this:

“It was a piece of work indelibly written by Nicolas Roeg. It’s about a family. It’s about death; about having a child pre-decease you. It’s about love. It’s about extra-sensory perception.

“Don’t bother doing that [remaking it]. Why do they do it? It’s just people wanting profit, trying to profit off the back of Nicolas Roeg, and something that’s very beautiful. It’s shameful. They should be ashamed of themselves.”

Plans for a ‘Don’t Look Now’ remake were first announced in April, from Studiocanal and producers Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman (who are also working on the ‘Escape From New York’ remake).

However, little more has been heard of the ‘Don’t Look Now’ remake since, and no director or writers are known to be attached.

Picture Credit: Studiocanal, WENN