Fright Night

Buffy producer Marti Noxon will remake Fright Night. She's a writer on Mad Men now, but obviously she has plenty of spare time. The remake will "keep the comedy-horror tone while modernizing the effects."

"Modernizing the effects"? Come on, remake. You can do better than that. That isn't remakey enough.

Let's check out the trailer for the original. Yep, better take all that stuff out.

Exorcist

William Peter Blatty told Cemetery Dance magazine that he whomped up a miniseries version of Exorcist. (Order the issue here.)

Blatty said William Friedkin agreed to direct, and he wrote some "rather spooky new material," and a "totally new (and perhaps much more satisfying) ending."

More satisfying? So he's definitely putting in a Bollywood dance number.

Gattaca

Gattaca will be a TV series, by writer Gil Grant from NCIS Los Angeles and 24. The movie was about eugenics, with Valids (the elite class) and the downtrodden Invalids. He said the show will be about a Valid cop partnered with an Invalid. He said the original director Andrew Niccol is not involved: "I don't know him," Grant said. Ouch!

I hope every episode is like the movie, where it makes me think, then somebody incinerates himself.