EYE 2 REMAKE LOOKS LIKE A GO

It's not just the Pang Brother's EYE that's getting a remake, now it looks like their THE EYE 2 is getting the remake green light via New Line. Vertigo (Roy Lee, the remake king's company) and Gold Circle are producing the movie and New Line is distributing.

Gold Circle is the company that has brought box office winners like THE WEDDING DATE, WHITE NOISE and JIMINY GLICK IN LALAWOOD to the silver screen. The only box office hit I can find their fingerprints on is MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING.

Gold Circle president, Paul Brooks, is so excited by THE EYE 2 that he erupts in a barrage of cryptic corporate speak, “We think this takes the Asian sub-genre in a whole new direction. It is a chilling and surprising experience.” I have no idea what he's talking about.

Todd Stein is writing the movie and he's the only name attached to the project so far. But who is Todd Stein?

According to his bio, Todd Stein has "...been living and working at Pema Osel Ling, a Tibetan Buddhist Retreat Center in the Santa Cruz mountains, devoting his time and energy in helping to preserve the spiritual and cultural heritage of Tibetan Buddhism."

He won a 2003 Monterey County Film Commission’s “Hollywood Connection 2003 Screenwriting Contest” Award for a spec script called UNBOUND with the logline: " A successful businessman’s life is turned inside out after meeting a mysterious stranger who predicts that he will kill someone…by the end of the week."

Then he got all metaphysical with his script 2:22 - "A frustrated artist starts to realize that the casual events that happen in his life repeat themselves on a daily basis.  He begins to connect this to a murder that took place on the day he was born."

This movie was bought by Gold Circle's Paul Brooks in 2004, and now he's on THE EYE 2. Yay.