Winter Tackling The Gate Remake in 3-D?
Source:Production Weekly February 11, 2009
There's a new director on board the remake of The Gate and it's a perfect fit. According to Production Weekly, Alex Winter (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure & Bogus Journey) is tackling the redo of the hellish 1987 creature feature. Furthermore, he's doing it in 3-D.
Winter's been juggling an acting, writing and directing career for years since his "Bill" days. In '93 he helmed the FX-heavy comedy Freaked (a fave of mine) and Fever in '99. Recently he's been directing episodes of Ben 10 for the Cartoon Network. Winter's sensibilities seem ideal for The Gate's tale of three kids who open a portal to hell in their backyard.
Stephen Dorff starred in the original film directed by Tibor Takács.
Randall Cook was once attached to the redo, but as he told us in September, he was not pleased with the script and backed off the project.
Q: Regarding Jason's mental capacity, is he just horribly deformed? Or is he, as Ginny posited in Friday the 13th Part 2, "a frightened retard"?
Derek Mears ("Jason"): I think there's a mild retardation, but he's a smart guy -- he sets people up [in the film]. I think it would be more of a deformity with a mild retardation. Even though Jason does kill people, the filmmakers wanted to lend him an air of humanity -- something with which the audience could empathize. You know, he wears the mask to hide his pain and all that. That's a symbol of -- "That's my protection from society". I don't know what the writers intended, but that's what was going on in my head.Damian Shannon (co-writer): He's a sympathetic character. We understand his backstory -- he was neglected, he was ostracized, he was different. He was neglected and supposedly drowned, and then they cut off his mother's head. That would make anyone very angry, so we understand his reasons for killing.
