GeekTyrant feels that this “looks a little cheesy,” and they’re not wrong, but…
…let’s be honest. It’s not like VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (either one) wasn’t cheesy, either. The concept is cheese-friendly. I’m more interested if this version of THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS is any good.
#commissionearned
David Farr, the writer behind films such as The Night Manager and Hanna, is set to develop an adaptation of John Wyndham’s sci-fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos. If that novel doesn’t sound familiar, this is the novel that inspired the Village of the Damned movies.
Deadline reports that the series is being produced by the broadcast network Sky, and it will be an eight-part series.
Having read the book and seen both movie versions (made in 1960 and 1995): I’m OK with this. The 1960 movie was good, but it couldn’t really tackle all of the stuff in the book. The 1995 movie… well, even when John Carpenter doesn’t succeed with a film it’s at least interesting to see. Which is my polite way of saying that I think we could get a good flick out of this. Besides, twenty-five years between versions isn’t actually too bad, for Hollywood. Especially when it’s really sixty.
It was going to be Taken
