{"id":202,"date":"2007-12-12T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=202"},"modified":"2018-12-08T15:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T20:02:44","slug":"metropolis-to-be-rebuilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/12\/metropolis-to-be-rebuilt\/","title":{"rendered":"METROPOLIS To Be Rebuilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fritz Lang&#8217;s 1927 gotchic science-fiction classic <strong>Metropolis<\/strong> has influenced numerous other films that have followed in the eight decades since its premier. Everything from James Whale&#8217;s original <strong>Frankenstein<\/strong> (1931) to the futuristic noir <strong>Blade Runner<\/strong> (1982) and beyond owe a debt to some aspect of the film, be it production design, story or themes. It has also inpired a Japanese comic series, which was later turned into an animated feature, and a stage musical.<\/p>\n<p>However, in all this time, no one has attempted a direct remake of the film until now. According to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121117031452\/http:\/\/www.variety.com:80\/article\/VR1117977386?refCatId=19\">Variety<\/a><\/em>, <strong>Alexander<\/strong> producer Thomas Schuehly has aquired the remake rights to Metropolis and is already working with producer Mario Kassar in finding a director for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Schuehly feels that the future world depicted in Lang&#8217;s film still resonates with present times.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the overwhelming role technology plays in our daily lives, the growing gap between rich and poor, including the gradual elimination of the middle class, the story of <strong>Metropolis<\/strong> is a frightening reflection of our society that takes place in an all too possible not too distant future. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Strong words, and it certainly sounds like Schuehly plans on sticking with the film&#8217;s themes. However, there is always the possibiblity that the remake&#8217;s development process may wind up turning it into yet another souless action picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Fritz Lang&#8217;s 1927 gotchic science-fiction classic Metropolis has influenced numerous other films that have followed in the eight decades since its premier. Everything from James Whale&#8217;s original Frankenstein (1931) to the futuristic noir Blade Runner <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/12\/metropolis-to-be-rebuilt\/\" title=\"METROPOLIS To Be Rebuilt\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[6,8,32],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-classic-film","8":"tag-remake","9":"tag-silent-films"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}