THE HUNGER sequel?

Tony Scott is just about the hackin'est hack director around... But he does have one jewel on his resume. Way back in 1983 he directed The Hunger, one of the most sexy and disturbing vampire pictures ever. (Click the image at left to buy the film on DVD.)

Now, in a rather surprising development, he tells Coming Soon he's working on a sequel. Not a remake, not a reboot. An actual sequel. Even more interesting, he implies that the original cast could maybe be involved somehow.

As far as that sequel to the 1983 horror movie, which starred Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon, Scott remained mum about whether or not any of the original cast would make it into the sequel--many of them are vampires after all--and how they'd accomplish that, but he did give us a few tidbits: "I'm not going to tell you how we're doing it, but I'm controlling it and it's gone to the next level. It's not a reinvention or reinterpretation, it starts in New York and it ends up in Sao Paulo, so it's a very different movie, but it springboards off the original. We're writing it right now and we've got a great writer, Erin Wilson." (We're not sure if this is the same Erin Wilson who wrote Secretary, but it would be pretty interesting if it was.)

I'd be very curious to learn how this would work. Deneuve, Bowie and Sarandon are all 26 years older now, after all. (Not such a problem in Bowie's case of course, since he was falling apart in the original film anyway and they could just cover him up with a lot of horrible old man makeup. But Deneuve and Sarandon don't have that option.)

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