Tags:akira kurosawa, edgar allen poe, hollywood remakes, mask of the black death, rashomon
The good news: Akira Kurosawa’s final script, a film based on Poe’s short story “The Masque of the Red Death” but set in Russia, will be getting the anime treatment in 2010. Kurosawa was working on getting the script produced when he died in 1998, but it was shelved after he passed away.
The bad news: Hollywood is planning a remake of Rashomon. What the fuck? How do you remake perfection?
To wrap it up: Kurosawa goes anime, Hollywood screws up a great story AGAIN. Seriously, are you even surprised anymore?
