David Cronenberg Wrote A Semi-Sequel To ‘The Fly,’ Not A Remake
Two years ago, in September 2009, we heard thefairly surprising newsthatDavid Cronenbergmight direct a remake of the 1986 filmThe Flyfor Fox. Thing is, that ‘86 film (which wecelebratednot long ago) was also a remake, and also directed by Cronenberg. And if the idea of Cronenberg directing a remake of his own remake was pretty wild, that’s because the story wasn’t exactly correct.
Fox may have been thinking of making a newFly, and the idea may have been to do something like what Universal has done with the prequel to the ‘82The Thing, with this year’s release also calledThe Thing. Because now Cronenberg says what he wrote was a semi-sequel to his great ‘86 film.
Speaking toSTYD, Cronenberg said
‘The Fly’ is not exactly a remake, it’s sort of a sequel, kinda. Yeah, that was a thing. I’ve written a script of that, and I don’t know if that’s going to really happen, but that has to do with Fox.
That doesn’t sound very encouraging — how crazy that a studio has a script in the vault by a master filmmaker who is willing to revisit one of his most recognizable films. Guess Fox decided to pull all its chips on Ridley Scott andPrometheusinstead. That makes a sort of sense, asPrometheusis probably a lot more easily marketable than anything Cronenberg would make for Fox at this point. But I’d love to read thatFlyscript.
The director also addressed the possibility of a sequel toEastern Promises, which is something that has been mentioned off and on for a couple years:
That is also possible. Steve Knight wrote an ‘Eastern Promises 2,’ he’s writing a second draft of that. Focus are interested in it, and we’ll see.
