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One Missed Call remake on the way

by Chris and Kris ⋅ April 28, 2006 ⋅ Comment now ⋅ Subscribe RSS

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Just came across this on Fangoria.

Variety reports that Alcon Entertainment, Intermedia and Kadokawa Pictures will produce and Warner Bros. will release an English-language remake of ONE MISSED CALL, Takashi Miike?s 2003 chiller. The original (pictured) was Miike?s entry in the post-RINGU cycle of supernatural films, in which a group of young friends receive mysterious calls on their cell phones which presage their own deaths. The story centers on one girl who gets the fateful message and must figure out how to cheat death within three days. The original is out on U.S. DVD from Media Blasters, which releases the Miike-less sequel ONE MISSED CALL 2 in a two-disc set May 16.

The director of the U.S. version is French filmmaker Eric Valette?an ironic choice, given that his own debut chiller MALEFIQUE is also slated for a redux (by Paramount and producer Neal Moritz, with John Pogue scripting) while the original still has yet to land an American distributor. The scripter of the new CALL is thriller novelist Andrew Klavan, whose books WHITE OF THE EYE (written as Margaret Tracy), DON?T SAY A WORD and TRUE CRIME have been adapted as features, and who penned the 1990 dark comedy A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM, starring Michael Caine. ?Michael Gingold

I don’t really know what a Miike-less, Shibasaki-less One Missed Call will be like, but I guess it was inevitable. You can read Kris’s review of One Missed Call here.

Other remakes on the way include Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle. Remake to be done by John Woo), Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, and Suspiria.