Tim Burton to direct Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman remake written by Gillian Flynn
The movie will be a "reimagined" version of the 1950s sci-fi film
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With Beetlejuice Beetlejuice wrapped up and heading to theaters in September, director Tim Burton is ready to line up his next project—and it’s one that makes a lot of sense for him, up to a certain point. According to Deadline, Burton will be directing a “reimagined” version of Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman, the 1958 sci-fi movie about a woman who becomes giant after getting exposed to space-radiation and proceeds to murder her cheating husband and his mistress.
That all seems like it’s in Burton’s wheelhouse, since (as Deadline points out) he’s done the ‘50s sci-fi thing before with the great Mars Attacks, but there’s another twist: This reimagining will be written by Gillian Flynn, best known for writing dramatic crime stories like Gone Girl and Sharp Objects. When you see that there’s a new Gillian Flynn movie, you don’t think “I assume it’s about a giant woman.” You might assume it’s about a woman killing her cheating husband and his mistress, though, so maybe this does all make more sense than we thought it did.
Then again, it is a “reimagined” version of the original, so maybe it won’t follow the exact plot. Deadline notes that it’s coming from Warner Bros., which also put out Barbie, so it predicts that this will be “another female power event” like that movie. That’s entirely possible, but it also seems dramatically premature… we don’t know if this movie is going to be an indictment of giant women or a celebration of them. The latter seems like a better idea, but who knows? Burton got a legacy sequel out of the way, so maybe he’ll cook up something wild this time.
Maybe it could be a spiritual sequel to Mars Attacks and Jack Nicholson can play multiple characters? He hasn’t done a movie in a decade, but he could play a giant woman.
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Anybody have a gif of that time on Harley Quinn when Poison Ivy grows into a giantess and Dr. Psycho starts yelling “put me in your pocket”? I’m expecting a lot of those reactions.
This is my reaction
Yeah right it’ll probably be a ‘woke’ version called ‘The 15.24 Meter Woman Makes Avocado Toast’ so all the Millennials will watch it!/s
With how many avocados she’ll need for that toast, she’s definitely not gonna be able to save for a house.
And the Starbucks coffee, oh god the Starbucks coffee!
Then again, it is a “reimagined” version of the original, so maybe it won’t follow the exact plot.I mean, the original’s…not good, so, I’d -hope- they don’t follow the exact plot. But that just gives them more room (ha.) to go crazy which, they better.
Just when I thought a 50-foot-woman was going to awaken something in me, Tim Burton ensures that she probably will not.
It was remade once, with Daryl Hannah. For SyFy (nee: SciFi Network), I think?
Is classic Burton back!? Only time will tell, but I’m cautiously optimistic.
Unexpected and interesting team-up!! Gone Girl was a fantastic novel.
Christopher Guest already directed an interesting slightly-reimagined version in 1992 starring Daryl Hannah. (I fuzzily recall it being an HBO movie that screened theatrically for a few engagements.)
Please cast Florence Pugh. She’s perfect!
I will not stand for this Daryl Hannah erasure.
I would not have guessed a movie like this would ever be remade, but I’m sure there are plenty of people that will be horny excited to see it.
Burton directing a screenplay that might actually be good? Somebody get me my snuff box, I might just faint.