No Vampires for “The Informers”
So we’ve been talking quite extensively in the third row lately about the studio’s involvement with Where the Wild Things Are and how they want it re-done without Spike Jonze’ “darkside” attached to it. Now imagine if they’d removed all the mosters from the movie completely. Pretty weird right?
Well not quite to that extreme, but apparently the film makers for Bret Eastin Ellis’ (American Psycho, Rules of Attraction) new adaptation, The Informers have decided to remove any of the supernatural creatures (vampires, monsters, zombies) from the story.
We get this from an interview with Jon Foster, playing Graham in the movie, over at comingsoon.net, via Dark Horizons:
“There are no more vampires. They took the vampires out. There are no zombies or monsters either. This is more about the narcissistic side of people’s characters. God knows why they took the vampire characters out. I can’t say if I was pleased or displeased, that is just the way it is.”
Now I haven’t read the book, but apparently one of the main thrusts of the story is the creature element; so much so, that in some parts of the world, the book is actually entitled “Zombies.” So it’s kind of perplexing as to why it was removed (assuming this is true). And since Brandon Routh (Clark Kent in Superman Returns) was slated to play the head vampire, I guess he’s out eh?
The film also stars Billy Bob Thornton, Mickey Rourke, Rhys Ifans, Kim Bassinger, Winona Ryder and is also the last film to include the late Brad Renfro.
Has anyone read the book and know what kind of impact this might have on the movie, if any?
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