You just never know what Hollywood is going to give us. First, we get the rarely emotive Keanu Reeves set to take on the world of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which wasn't an idea that pleased many readers. Almost a week later, we're getting another remake of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and this cast might surprise you more than the first -- although it's still sure to be better. Variety reports that Abel Ferrara is re-imagining the story into a contemporary setting, calling it Jekyll and Hyde, and getting Forest Whitaker and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson to star. (To be fair: Fangoria got the scoop a few weeks ago.)
Variety just says they'll play "the lead roles," but the Fangoria link fills in the particulars. While I would love to see Whitaker really command the role and both Jekyll and Hyde,...
Variety just says they'll play "the lead roles," but the Fangoria link fills in the particulars. While I would love to see Whitaker really command the role and both Jekyll and Hyde,...
- 5/14/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
In the course of covering Dan Fogler’s Hysterical Psycho at the Tribeca Film Festival (see our review here), Fango chatted up actor Nicholas De Cegli (a.k.a. Nicky Dee, pictured left), who plays “The Giant” in Psycho. He has also appeared in several movies by cult fave Abel Ferrara, and gave us the scoop that the director will soon be revisiting a classic horror icon.
“It’s a takeoff on Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, with Forest Whitaker as Dr. Jekyll and 50 Cent as Mr. Hyde,” the actor tells us, adding, “It's gonna be played totally straight. In this movie, it’s the rich white people who get terrorized, and I’m going to be playing one of those white guys. This is a really great project; he wrote it as a modern-day version of the story, and he’s just waiting for the green light on it.
“It’s a takeoff on Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, with Forest Whitaker as Dr. Jekyll and 50 Cent as Mr. Hyde,” the actor tells us, adding, “It's gonna be played totally straight. In this movie, it’s the rich white people who get terrorized, and I’m going to be playing one of those white guys. This is a really great project; he wrote it as a modern-day version of the story, and he’s just waiting for the green light on it.
- 4/28/2009
- Fangoria
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