Peter Hyams To Remake Capricorn One
Well now here’s a movie I certainly didn’t think would ever get remade. Back in 1978, Peter Hyams (End of Days, The Relic, Timecop) directed a sci-fi conspiracy thriller called Capricorn One. The movie starred Elliott Gould, James Brolin and yes, everyone’s favourite spaceman O.J Simpson, as NASA astronauts who discover that an Apollo Mars mission was faked. It’s definitely a cool subject for a film; there are theories that the Apollo moon landing was not real, and Hyams managed to make a movie about this by changing the story a bit and adding some fairly exagerrated fictional twists.
Well now, nearly 30 years later, Hyams is developing a remake of the film called… Capricorn Two. So I guess it’s kind of like Evil Dead 2, in that it’s a remake masquerading as a sequel. Peter Buchman (Jurassic Park III, Eragon) is writing the script. Personally I’d love to see a good movie about the actual moon landing, although a direct remake of Capricorn One doesn’t seem all that interesting… or marketable. Who knows, maybe the upcoming Billy Bob Thornton flick The Astronaut Farmer will rekindle interest in movies about astronauts. What do you think?
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Comments (4)
I hope you’re right and that “The Astronaut Farmer” gets people interested in making good space movies again. And though I like the idea about a moon landing movie though I like this even better. The conspiracy theorists would have a field day with this one.
Posted by Marina on February 9th, 2007I love Capricorn One. It is one of those seminal movies from my youth when I was just becoming aware of their power. Not that C1 is a great movie, but it had a big impact on me. Plus it has Jack McCoy..I mean Sam Waterston.. as one of the astronauts.
Posted by thesnowleopard on February 10th, 2007I am sooooo excited that this film is being remade!! Capricorn One is one of my ALL time favorite movies. Now if could only be in the remake….so cool.:)
Posted by bridget on May 29th, 2007Oh I do wish Mr. Hyams would run his script remake by me first so I can help as a sounding board before he invests any money in it.
Posted by Susanna Leslie on May 18th, 2008I just rewatched the film for the first time in thirty years courtesy of its TCM premiere. There is so much potential for a first rate political thriller and so many wonderful visuals in this film, along with a magnificent Jerry Goldsmith score, but the film is undermined with too many plot loopholes and distracting sprinkles of forced humor that unfortunately work against it all of which could have been corrected and should be for the remake.
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