Plan 9 From Outer Space Trailer

[GeneralCinema]

It's finally out, and you can see it here.

[monkeyghoul]

Wow.  I, uh... Wow.

Couldn't view the trailer on my old-ass computer, but the fact that someone's even doing this is jaw-dropping news to me.  Thanks, GC.

(And here I recently bought the original on DVD... only to learn now that the remake team is also releasing a 2-disc edition of the original.  Oh well...)

Since they're apparently planning to make a "serious" movie, I don't see how they can include my favorite line: "'Stronger'... You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!"

If only Bela could come back from the grave -- again -- for a cameo, it'd be perfect.

[Splatterscribe]

I actually watched the online trailer for the new "Plan 9" for the first time last night. What was really weird is that footage I saw reminded me more of Dawn of the Dead than anything else (until some sort of bizarre, globular floating whatsit showed up).

[GeneralCinema]

I liked the "This is for Ed and his crew" at the end.

[monkeyghoul]

Just rewatched the original... Damn, I love that movie.

This just occurred to me: With Bela Lugosi in a posthumous performance as "the Old Man," and Ed Wood's chiropractor playing most scenes of the same character after zombification (the "Ghoul Man"), what we have was (sort of) a case of a character played by a dead actor when he's alive and by a living actor when he's dead.  Backed up by the credits, the living actor was also playing the dead actor by pretending to actually be Bela Lugosi (as though the audience could be fooled).

I'm jazzed about the remake.  I still can't view the trailer, but it's great how seriously and how affectionately they're taking the whole project.  I'm down with anyone who's down with Ed Wood and Bela Lugosi.

[Splatterscribe]

I'm jazzed about the remake.  I still can't view the trailer, but it's great how seriously and how affectionately they're taking the whole project.  I'm down with anyone who's down with Ed Wood and Bela Lugosi.

Funny little story: Back when Tim Burton's Ed Wood came out, I was called upon to give my picks for who would take home an Academy Award that year in the various catagories. When the topic turned to Best Supporting Actor, I didn't hesitate to name Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi. My brother (and several other people I know) practically ridiculed me, assured in their apparently superior knowledge of cinema that Samuel L. Jackson was a dead lock to win the award for his role as Jules in Pulp Fiction. I leveled a gaze at these people and told them directly that, although I'm not really a fan (I prefer Karloff), I know something about Bela Lugosi, having seen the man in action, and that Martin Landau was Lugosi in that film.
Oh yes, I did enjoy that satisfying moment when Landau won.

[monkeyghoul]

Great movie and great performance by Landau.  I also thought he deserved the award (w/no disrespect to my man Sam Jackson).  But I had to shake my head sadly at the irony that Hollywood would honor Landau for playing an actor whom Hollywood had earlier typecast, scoffed at, and effectively ruined.

[gorific89]

Wow, if only it's coming out to theaters. I will point out though that I totally have the exact same radio from the trailer... And no way in hell is the audio really that clear...lol

This is the kind of remake I don't mind, because as great as Ed Woods' story's were they never really had the budget to make them as real as they could have been. Also dug the tribute towards the end... now if only they have a needle thin vampira...