Script Completed for NIGHT OF THE COMET Remake at Orion
Most of us who came of age in the 1980s have a soft-spot in our black hearts for Night of the Comet, written and directed by Thom Eberhardt. At the time, critics dismissed it as a product of the “Valley Girl” phenomenon, but horror fans have always seen it as way a
Now, we’re learning that Orion has their eyes on a Night of the Comet remake—and the script has already been completed. The studio retained Roxanne Benjamin (Southbound, The XX) who’s at SXSW supporting her directorial debut, Body at Brighton Rock. Our friends at MovieWeb were around and get some interesting details about the Night of the Comet remake script:
“I actually turned it in already. It’s already done. I like making girl buddy movies. I’m really drawn to female relationships and the complexity of female relationships, and how they change. And how their interactions can be both, we’re like terrible to each other and then we’re loving to each other at the same time. I don’t know. It’s very complex, female relationships throughout your life. So that’s just fascinating to me, in terms of how that works within a horror or genre setting, and I don’t feel like we get that much out of our genre. It’s always, it’s the trope. It’s the final girl. It’s one girl on her own. Obviously [Body at Brighton Rock] has one girl, so I can’t knock those kinds of movies, but that relationship in a scenario of the end of the world is fascinating to me. And I love the movie, the first movie. There are so many great one-liners in that movie. The visuals are amazing and for a B horror movie of the time, I’m always shocked when people don’t know about it, or haven’t heard of it. It’s very confusing to me because it’s like you said you’d never heard of Weekend at Bernie’s or something. I mean, most people have heard of that, right? It’s not just me. I’m very excited about the prospect of that becoming a real thing.”
Her enthusiasm is certainly infectious! We’ll be keeping our ears to the ground in order to bring you all Night of the Comet-related news as details emerge. Stay tuned! In the meantime, check out the trailer and synopsis for the original Night of the Comet (released in 1984) below.
Synopsis:
After a rare comet sighting, teen sisters Regina (Catherine Mary Stewart) and Samantha (Kelli Maroney) find that they’re among the only survivors of a zombie attack. The girls partner with another survivor, Hector (Robert Beltran), but as they try to avoid the zombies, they’re sought by scientists who want to experiment on their bodies in the hope of finding an antidote. Dodging both the doctors and the undead, they keep moving in the hope that they can continue to stay alive.
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