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The Hitcher
Release Date:
January 19, 2007
June 27, 2005
Director, writer sign up for remake
Rogue Pictures, the specialty arm of Focus Features, has chosen a director and writer for its update of the 1986 horror film The Hitcher. Dave Meyers, who has previously directed music videos for such bands as The Dave Matthews Band, will helm, while Jake Wade Wall will handle the script. The original movie starred Rutger Hauer and C. Thomas Howell in the story of a teen who picks up a hitchhiker from hell - a man who is actually a serial killer who implicates his young driver in his crimes. The updated version of the film is being produced by Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes, which also did the remakes of The Amityville Horror and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Source: Variety
April 18, 2005
Rogue Pictures set for Hitcher remake
Platinum Dunes, the production company formed by Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller that has released such low-budget horror stuff as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Amityville Horror, is next set to do a remake of the 1986 film The Hitcher. Rogue Pictures will distribute for Focus Features. The original film was directed by Robert Harmon and starred C. Thomas Howell as a normal teenager who picks up a hellish hitchhiker, portrayed by Rutger Hauer. The man is a serial killer and torments the kid by seeing that he is implicated in his crimes.
Source: Variety
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