{"id":38417,"date":"2016-04-28T22:11:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T02:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=38417"},"modified":"2016-04-28T22:11:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T02:11:30","slug":"omen-prequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/28\/omen-prequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Setting Up An OMEN Prequel Because Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/the-omen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38418\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/the-omen.jpg\" alt=\"the-omen\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/the-omen.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/the-omen-339x191.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twentieth Century Fox is the process of assembling a team to bring a prequel to the classic horror film <strong>The Omen<\/strong> titled <strong>The First Omen<\/strong> to the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/omen-movie-prequel-works-888321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a> is stating that the studio is in negotiations with Antonio Campos, the indie filmmaker who brought the drama Christine to this year&#8217;s Sundance Film Festival. Ben Jacoby, who wrote this years&#8217; indie horror flick <strong>Bleed<\/strong>, has provided the screenplay for the prequel.<\/p>\n<p>The original 1976 film from director Richard Donner starred Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as parents who discover that their child Damien is not a figurative spawn of Satan but the literal spawn of Satan. Two sequels, a 2006 remake of the original film starring Liev Shrieber and Julia Stiles and a currently running TV series, titled <em>Damien<\/em>, have followed. So by default, the first film is somewhat of an origin story. And that leads me to wonder, outside of the obvious business considerations, why do we need a prequel anyway? The original <strong>Omen<\/strong> pretty much spells out how Peck and Remick&#8217;s son was swapped out for Damien at the hospital and how Damien was created by satanists in the first place. Has the TV series airing on A&amp;E really proved that popular that the studio feels now is the time for some corporate synergy and is cashing in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Do we need a prequel telling us about the Antichrist&#8217;s days before he was a child?<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/28\/omen-prequel\/\" title=\"Fox Setting Up An OMEN Prequel Because Money\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38418,"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":[8261],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-the-first-omen"},"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\/38417","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=38417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38417"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=38417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}