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The Fog & Smallville in Sci Fi Magazine
Fri August 19th 2005 @ 1:30AM - James - Tom Welling - 0 Comments
Along with an article about Smallville's fifth season (quotes from that can be found on KryptonSite), the October 2005 issue of Sci Fi Magazine also features an article about The Fog, entitled "Hit or Mist?" Tom's everywhere these days!
Unfortunately the article doesn't include many quotes from Tom - aside from his old chestnut about how they've "taken the ages of the original characters and divided them in two." However it's still a really good read. John Carpenter in particular has some insightful comments about why a remake was, in this case, not such a bad idea:
Big thanks to Cindy for letting me know and to Craig for passing along the quotes.Although Carpenter admits that the original Fog was not a favorite among his own films, he still feels the concept is a strong one that deserves a chance to be reimagined for today's audience. "It's a pretty fireproof idea in terms of what happens," he says. "It's an old ghost story. The idea in this case is to freshen it up. There's a cultural mindset that says anything that's more than 15 years or older is old-fashioned and old-school. But we've sort of heard of it. The audience has maybe heard of it. So the thing to do is to take it out and prop it up, put a fresh coat of paint on it. See if it goes."
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