{"id":27000,"date":"2013-03-07T11:43:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=27000"},"modified":"2013-03-07T11:43:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:43:53","slug":"poltergeist-remake-gets-director-gil-kenan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/07\/poltergeist-remake-gets-director-gil-kenan\/","title":{"rendered":"POLTERGEIST Remake Gets Director Gil Kenan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Poltergeist.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Poltergeist-300x187.png\" alt=\"Poltergeist\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27001\" \/><\/a>MGM has finally found a director for their long in development Poltergeist remake. Taking the helm of the film about a suburban family who disciver their home is infested with not so friendly ghosts will be Gil Kenan. And interesting choice as Kenan&#8217;s 2006 animated feature Monster House explored simliar stpry territory, albeit with a more kid-friendly tone.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Raimi has been attached to the film as a producer for a while and some were starting to suspect that the director would wind up taking the reins of the film himself.<\/p>\n<p>This <strong>Poltergeist<\/strong> remake has been in the pipeline for so long that a number of writers have taken a pass at the screenplay including David Lindsay-Abaire (<strong>Oz, The Great And Powerful<\/strong>), Scott Derrickson (<strong>Sinister<\/strong>), Juliet Snowden (<strong>The Possession<\/strong>), Stiles White (<strong>Boogeyman<\/strong>) and Paul Harris Boardman (<strong>The Exorcism of Emily Rose<\/strong>). The Writers Guild arbitration should be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The original Tobe Hooper 1982 horror classic starred Craig T. Nelson and Jobeth Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The MONSTER HOUSE helmer will take on one of cinema&#8217;s most famous haunted houses.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/07\/poltergeist-remake-gets-director-gil-kenan\/\" title=\"POLTERGEIST Remake Gets Director Gil Kenan\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27001,"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":[6221,5119,467],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-gil-kenan","9":"tag-poltergeist","10":"tag-sam-raimi"},"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\/27000","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=27000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27000"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=27000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}