 Originally Posted by Cereval
Totally. And if you've read Cell, you know there's more to it than the zombie aspect ... King brings his flavor ... 
And you can bet that this film won't break the number one rule of remakes and adaptions: Forget the flavor, it's not what makes you the money.
This is exactly why I get queezy about the thought. Even more, they chose Eli Roth, who is nothing special and another one of those kiddie guys who can't doing anything beyond these cheap horror flicks. I wonder who will write this thing...James Gunn? The apparent "big fan" of something, but can't follow it. Here's my prediction into the comparison to Dawn of the Dead and its remake.
Dawn of the Dead was its own entity. It accidently slammed consumerism, and it had a deeper meaning than just "let's have a kill fest of zombies". The remake just stole the mall idea, and there wasn't much for meaning through the film. The meaning was left out. James Gunn was a bad writer. I hate to make comments like that, but he was. His original draft had undead birds and zombies who could climb. The development was even worse than it was in the film.
Now you've got a kiddie director tackling a Stephen King book, which is more than just the zombies, as Romero had. What happens when a veteran of the genre creates something with more of a meaning than just the zombies? But you know what will probably happen with the Cell movie? There will be no meaning. Eli Roth, through his directing which lacks any greater meaning besides lets boast gore, will leave out major tidbits. Sure he sounds like a horror buff. Well, that's not enough. James Gunn claimed to be a big fan. He massacred Dawn of the Dead with a cruddy remake, which was saved by a couple revisions and a director who wasn't bad considering his lacking experience. The boys at Taurus Entertainment claim to be devoted to sticking to Romero and claim to be big fans. Well, look at Day of the Dead: Contagium. It has NOTHING to do with Day of the Dead.
I have a bad feeling about the Cell movie. It's not going to be as great of the book. Not even close.
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