Reboot

[Morbid Misery]

Since we are seeing a vast deluge of reboots and remakes in film lately is it not time to see some in terms of supernatural fiction. I was thinking about this after seeing the film version of Twilight and while the Twilight series is good in places it just rehashes old ideas and repackages them as new. What I would like to see is a writer who is prepared to go out on a limb and try to inject new ideas into this sub genre perhaps even rewrite old myths and make them more updated while still keeping them true to their origins.

Case in Point - Vampires. Now their is so much garbage out there and 90% of it is not at all scary. Come on if Chris Nolan can do it for Batman and Joker why can't a writer do the same with Vampires or Werewolves or Zombies.

MM

[delboy]

I suspect we wouldn't have so many remakes in the movies if technology hadn't moved on and special effects have become so good that they become the engine around which these remakes are made. In fiction the same thing doesn't apply. The special effects have always been good, so why is there a need to rewrite Dracula or Salems Lot, The Strange Case of Doctor Jeckyll or Darker Than You think, Damnation Game or ... well, I don't know any other zombie novels of distinction. More to the point, should there be a question mark at the end of that previous sentence or not? 

Derek