‘I Walked With a Zombie’ to Get Remake

ComingSoon.net/Shock Till You Drop recently spoke with Andy Fickman about the four films RKO will be remaking. Â  The producer revealed the first one up will be ‘I Walk With a Zombie’, based on the 1943 classic from director Jacques Tourneur and producer Val Lewton.

The film is about a young nurse who goes to the West Indies to care for  the wife of a plantation manager.   The wife seems to be  suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result of fever.   When the nurse falls for the plantation manager, she  determines to cure the wife even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony, to give the husband what she thinks he wants.

“We’re just getting ready to start going out for casting on that, and we’ll film that in New Orleans in the spring,” Finkman said.

On a personal note, I really don’t want to see this. Â  I love everything Val Lewton produced, and I really hope his creations don’t get ruined by lame attempts at remakes. Â  If you haven’t seen any of his films, you are missing some of the best, classic horror films ever made.

Adam Marcus (‘Jason Goes to Hell’) is directing the remake with a tentative 2009 release date.

Source: Coming Soon