So I saw the words ‘Helen Mirren’ and ‘Winchester’ together in movie news…

…and I thought to myself, Man. If only this was going to be a horror movie about that lady who built that crazy Winchester Mansion. But what are the odds that Helen Mirren’s going to star in a movie like that?

And LO! The universe provides.

The Winchester movie follows the story of firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (Mirren), who was convinced that she was haunted by the souls killed at the hands of the Winchester repeating rifle. After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, she threw herself into the 24-hour a day, seven days a week construction of an enormous mansion designed to keep the evil spirits at bay. But when skeptical San Francisco psychiatrist Eric Price is dispatched to the estate to evaluate her state of mind, he discovers that her obsession may not be so insane after all. Winchester will take audiences inside the labyrinth like house that is believed to be one of the most haunted places in the world.

Is somebody in Hollywood on drugs?  If so, find the pusher handling that particular account and have him expand to all of the other studios. Because of course I want to see something like this, likely heavy-handed subtext or no. This is going to be one of those productions where they have to sacrifice bits of historical accuracy because nobody would ever, ever believe that they happened in real life.  I always like to see a good reality-has-defeated-me flick.

4 thoughts on “So I saw the words ‘Helen Mirren’ and ‘Winchester’ together in movie news…”

  1. You just happen to think of something and HOLLYWOOD gives it to you???

    You, Sir, are beginning to scare me. Even if you only use this power for good (so far).

    1. It’s like the time I won the football pool one week because I wasn’t *trying* to win: I was aiming for having the consistently worst results of the entire office. And I was doing it! Four, five weeks in I was at the utter bottom of the ranking. And then came the Saturday where something like 8 of 9, or 7 of 8, ridiculous upsets happened. When the guy doing the pool called me Monday to let me know he had my money for me I legit thought that he was joking.

      I never managed to replicate my earlier successes, of course. I spent the rest of the season stuck in the middle of the rankings.

  2. Oh goody. Another movie that will insult me. Can’t wait.
    .
    Could a good movie be done of the premise? Sure.
    But the question is “Can Hollywood turn out a good movie based on the premise?” And the answer is no.

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