Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt and Kyle Catlett Join "Poltergeist" Remake

[JamesG]

Sam Raimi To Produce MGM's Poltergeist Remake (Exclusive)
4/27/2012
by Borys Kit


The filmmaker, who got his start with The Evil Dead horror movies, will produce the remake of the 1982 film -- which Steven Spielberg produced and co-scripted from his original story -- with Nathan Kahane and Roy Lee.

Despite some reports, Raimi is not directing the remake but will help oversee the search for a helmer.

David Lindsay-Abaire, who worked on Disney's Oz: The Great and Powerful for Raimi, is working on the script, which focuses on a family whose house was built on a holy site and whosedaughter is taken by ghosts.





The movie is one of two horror remakes on which MGM is in active development, the other being Carrie.

Raimi is also currently producing a remake of The Evil Dead with Fede Alvarez directing. It is set for April 12, 2013.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...ergeist-317606

[JamesG]

Poltergeist Remake Gets Director
by Samuel Zimmerman
Mar 06, 2013


Gil Kenan, who helmed the kid-friendly animated spookshow Monster House and movie that time forgot City of Ember, has been hand plucked by MGM to direct the long-gestating remake of the 1982 classic haunted house picture Poltergeist.

That film, co-written and produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Tobe Hooper is a cinematic treasure, which has forever made it target for redo. It saw picturesque family the Freelings (led by Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams) truly understand the horrors of suburban development through menacing spectral activity atop a covered Indian burial ground.



A host of writers including Sinister's Scott Derrickson, David Lindsay-Abaire and The Possession's Juliet Snowden & Stiles White have previously worked on drafts of a new version (there was once even speculation Sam Raimi could take it on), but Deadline revealed little else aside from Kenan's involvement, so whether a pre-existing script or entirely new one will be used is unknown.

Also unknown, the film's goals. Kenan is arguably a director of younger-aged fare. While most parents wouldn't be uncomfortable letting their newly teenaged spawn watch the often fun, but frightening original, it does remain particularly layered, and frankly, great.

Will Kenan make a jump and shoot for such, or just aim lower?

http://www.fangoria.com/index.php/ho...ets-a-director

[JamesG]

Jared Harris Lands Poltergeist Lead
by JEN YAMATO
Wednesday September 4, 2013


Sherlock Holmes star Jared Harris has nabbed a lead role in MGM and Fox 2000′s Poltergeist, helmed by Gil Kenan.

Harris will play Carrigan, a larger than life TV personality who left the world of academia behind to become the star host of a basic cable show called "Haunted House Cleaners", in the horror remake.

Harris’s recent credits include a stint on AMC’s "Mad Men" as Lane Pryce, his role as Ulysses S. Grant in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, and Screen Gems’ The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/09/jare...tergeist-lead/

[JamesG]

Poltergeist Reboot Adds "The Following's" Kyle Catlett
9/4/2013
by Rebecca Ford


MGM's Poltergeist reboot has added Kyle Catlett, the young actor who starred in the first season of FX's serial-killer drama "The Following".

Catlett will play the middle child, Griffin, in the Bowen family, with Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt set to star as the Bowen parents.

The story follows the Bowens as their home is terrorized and their youngest child goes missing when a supernatural force takes over their home.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...gs-kyle-620961

[Tubehead]

they sure do ruin these movies into the ground now I heard their making a poltergeist tv series s when is it going to end?