{"id":26,"date":"2007-08-16T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=26"},"modified":"2012-11-06T10:58:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T14:58:49","slug":"rko-returns-audiences-to-isle-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/16\/rko-returns-audiences-to-isle-of-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"RKO Returns Audiences To ISLE OF THE DEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1945 Boris Karloff cult classic <strong>Isle Of The Dead<\/strong> is the next project from RKO Studios to receive a modern updating. The studio has been recently raiding its vaults for films to be remade in an attempt to become a major production house again.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by one of RKO\u2019s best, Val Lewton, the original told the story of a Greek general (Karloff), who orders an island quarantined when a mysterious and deadly plague starts striking down residents. As conditions worsen, many start to believe that a vampire or demon may be the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Newcomers Brian Horiuchi and Matt Lazarus will be scripting the new version. No director has been hired yet.<\/p>\n<p>The studio currently has several other remakes in various stages of development. The Ice Cube-starring comedy <strong>Are We Done Yet?<\/strong>, a remake of the classic <strong>Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House<\/strong>, underperformed at the box office earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em> article, the island setting of the original is going to be changed to landlocked Afghanistan, so presumably a title change can be expected.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/News\/2007\/June\/RKOHorrorClassicsRemakes.htm\">RKO Horror Classics Set For Remake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The 1945 Boris Karloff cult classic Isle Of The Dead is the next project from RKO Studios to receive a modern updating. The studio has been recently raiding its vaults for films to be remade <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/16\/rko-returns-audiences-to-isle-of-the-dead\/\" title=\"RKO Returns Audiences To ISLE OF THE DEAD\">[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":[12,8],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-cult-film","8":"tag-remake"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}