‘They Live’ again, but as a remake (arghh!)

Universal and Strike Entertainment are vying for the rights to ‘They Live’ in an effort to bring the 1988 sci-fi flick back for modern audiences. Here’s an idea… rent the original! Anyway, The rights are currently held by music biz entity Les Mougins and if the deal goes through, John Carpenter will serve as an executive producer. Carpenter directed the 1988 original, which tells the story of a struggling construction worker (played by Rowdy Roddy Piper) who finds a pair of sunglasses and discovers they allow him to see an alien invasion secretly taking place all around us. Roddy must now beat the clock to somehow stop the invasion from happening.

The original film is famous, in part, for a fight scene which is best summed up as follows:

The fight between Nada (Roddy Piper) and Frank (Keith David) was only supposed to last 20 seconds, but Piper and David decided to fight it out for real, only faking the hits to the face and groin. They rehearsed the fight for three weeks. Carpenter was so impressed he kept the 5 minute and 20 second scene intact. — IMDB.com

[source: HollywoodReporter.com]