Not Again!

The Royal Palace, Bangkok
I just saw a poster for the new Daniel Craig/Nicole Kidman movie. No, not 'The Golden Compass'. 'The Invasion'! I checked IMDB and sure enough it was what I suspected; yet another version of 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'! Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of 'Body Snatchers', all three of them, even Abel Ferrara's lesser 90s version. And the new one may even be good; early indications are that it is. With such a strong story behind it, it would want to be a pretty crap director to mess it up (the director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, made the excellent "Downfall"). But why again? Why? Surely Hollywood's pursuit of money must some limits! Well, apparently not. Really three remakes is too much. And then bear in mind all the unofficial ripoffs ('The Faculty', etc. Even Donald Sutherland, star of the 1978 version, appeared in 'The Puppet Masters'). To add insult to the whole injury, they try to disguise its origin (Finney, the original writer, not to mention the original movie, aren't mentioned on the poster), they use the only part of the original title not used in isolation before (Ferrara's version was 'Body Snatchers', I believe); 'The Invasion'. People should speak out! (I know I'm being melodramatic.) But if the only thing Hollywood understands is money, let's tell them a thing or two. Avoid this movie. Don't go. Watch any of the other versions if you are tempted (Siegel's and Kaufmann's are brilliant), but boycott this movie. Please, don't be a pod person! Keep your humanity! Stay away! They're coming for you, and you. They're coming for everybody! Watch the skies, keep watching the skies!