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David Cronenberg May Direct Ultra-Violent Time-Travel Remake

David Cronenberg (The Fly, Crash) is in talks to direct the American remake of the Sundance scifi crime movie Timecrimes, according to original director Nacho Vigalondo. Which would be amazing news for Timecrimes as Cronenberg could bring a lot grit and darkness to the American version, as long as it's not as bewildering as eXistenZ. More »

8:20 AM on Wed May 14 2008
By Meredith Woerner
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Time-Travel Thriller's Auteur Plans A UFO Movie Spanish time-travel thriller Time Crimes sounds more awesome all the time. Director Nacho Vigalondo calls it "a DePalma story with a time machine," and "Tarkovski for teenagers." In Timecrimes, an ordinary guy gets attacked by a pink-bandaged weirdo, then stumbles into a contraption that turns out to be a time machine. Vigalondo's next film, The Ramp, is a dark comedy about a guy who builds a ramp to jump his car onto a UFO. We're so there. [IndieWire]

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Time Travel Turns Ordinary Guy Into Monster

Time travel corrupts absolutely in Time Crimes, the new movie from Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo. A guy travels back in time by accident and meets himself, along with a mysterious creepy figure whose head is wrapped in pink rags. The ability to exist in an infinite number of circumstances thanks to time travel inevitably draws our hero towards evil, according to the Sundance-bound movie's official site. It sounds like a darker, scarier version of time-travel thriller Primer. Click through for a gallery of stills. More »

8:20 AM on Tue Jan 8 2008
By charliejane
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Latest by Plague: If you didn't understand Primer or the ending, you weren't paying close enough attention. And you have to have a villain in a movie? Hmm. Must of missed that memo. more »