John Carpenter talks The Fog Remake

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Our colleagues from ComingSoon had the chance to talk to legendary director John Carpenter about the remake of his cultmovie "The Fog", which will be directed by Rupert Wainwright. He talked about casting younger Hollywood stars, why he doesn't want to direct this film, and why the movie is designed to be a PG-13 film.

Here's a little clip from the interview:

Why remake "The Fog"?

John Carpenter: Why not? If everybody else is making remakes and they want to pay me money to make a remake of an old movie of mine why not? It's a good idea. Seriously that's part of the answer, but my ex-partner, Debra Hill, who just recently died, had been trying to get this off the ground. We hooked up with David [Foster] here who did finally get it off the ground and it was kind of nice for her to see this being made.

Can you talk about the key differences between this version of The Fog and the 1980 version?

JC: The styles are different. The actors are different. The director is different. It's essentially the same story with some basic changes in it. Its fog, ghosts.

Was there creative solutions you had to find to bring across the horror you wanted [because of the PG-13 rating]?

JC: I'm just a producer on this. I just sit home and watch basketball games on TV. These guys go out and make this movie. It's designed to be a PG-13 film. Horror has really changed a lot. It used to be a lot much more hard core. Today it's drifting towards PG-13 and you know getting girls in and girls don't like yucky stuff, you know what I mean.

You can read the whole interview here.

Another Remake, another PG-13. Sounds very bad for me. Why PG-13? Why design for little girls? Isn't this supposed to be a horror-movie? You can discuss this topic with us at the boards here.

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