With the exciting sci-fi horror Body Snatchers, director Abel Ferrara directed the third of four film adaptations of the novel The Body Snatchers Come by Jack Finney. Even though the film was in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993, Ferrara was happy with the collaboration from Warner Bros. is anything but enthusiastic.
Still is an iconic alien horror emerged, the for the first time in 31 years on Blu-ray in German appears. The media book also includes the DVD, a booklet, as well as the trailer and a picture gallery as bonus material.
That’s what the alien horror film Body Snatchers is about
Marti (Gabrielle Anwar) isn’t thrilled about having to live with her stepmother on a military base in the deep south of the United States. But the private arguments are pushed into the shadows when she realizes that there is one in the camp creeping alien invasion takes place. Foreign organisms suck out the bodies of sleeping people and replace them with soulless doppelgangers. When Marti’s family also falls victim to the aliens, they go on the run.
Ferrara wants a remake of Body Snatchers
He was young and needed the money, which could perhaps also be said about director Abel Ferrara, who made his first feature film with porn The Nine Lives of a Wet Pussy turned. However, he made a name for himself through his relentlessly dark works, which often deal with the Catholicism with which he grew up, even though he himself converted to Buddhism in 2007.
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Body Snatchers in the media book
Not only are his films ruthless, but also his look back at his collaboration with Warner Bros. on Body Snatchers. The film was Ferrara’s first time working with a major studio. In his 2016 interview with Den of Geek, he criticizes Warner Bros. for changing the setting of Body Snatchers from a small town to a military base. According to Ferrara, they couldn’t have had a worse idea:
You’re going to make a $40 million movie about a random, stupid car chase that some idiot screenwriter wrote – who was fired anyway?
Ferrara also couldn’t believe the way novelist Jack Finney was treated. After all, in his opinion the novel is a superbly written masterpiece:
They gave him $500 and that was it. That’s all he has. Based on this idea, they made four studio films and the guy got $500.
When Ferrara consulted with Finney about ideas for the film, the studio intervened and prohibited contact because they They were afraid that Finney would ask for more money and they definitely didn’t want to give that to the author.
Finally, Ferrara says about Body Snatcher that he made the best of the possibilities and liked the film, but he could have done it much better. He also pulls from the leather last remake invasion with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig from 2007:
Would I like to do a remake? Yes. I think I could do better than that these clowns are doing it with invasion have made? I haven’t seen everything, but I’ve seen enough…
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