Since the company was founded in 2001 by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, and Brad Fuller, Platinum Dunes brought contemporary remakes of classic horror films like The Amityville Horror, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, The Hitcher, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to the big screen. But now, coinciding with the success of their new film A Quiet Place, the studio says they’re done with horror reboots.
In a recent interview with Cinepop, both Form and Fuller expressed their commitment to new, original content over rehashes of classic properties. When asked directly about upcoming reboot projects, Brad Fuller did not mince words:
“We’ve rebooted enough. We’ve done all of our horror movies rebooting. We’re not gonna be doing that anymore.”
Andrew Form explained what it is about A Quiet Place and original material that has them focused on this new direction:
“For us as a company, we’re always looking for original material. And the idea of finding something original was important to us… We made a film where there’s two to three minutes of talking in the movie, where sound is a full character in this movie, and it feels like audiences are really responding to those ingredients in this movie.”
You can watch the entire interview below:
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