From the webmaster:
I'm just wanting to let everyone know that I am not affiliated with Amicus Productions. I'm not a relative of Subotsky or Rosenberg. I am just a guy who believes that these films have their historical place in cinema history and should not be forgotten. Why do I say it's the ONLY Amicus website? I say that because it is the only website that is 100% dedicated to the legacy of Amicus Productions and it's creators. Of course it's not an official website, because the original company has been defunct now for over 30 years. It has just recently been revived as Amicus Entertainment.
Fangoria Radio's Tony Timpone reported this among his scoops:
"While co-writer Johnathon Schaech’s FROM A BUICK 8 Stephen King adaptation still looks for financing, he and co-writer Richard Chizmar are continuing to tweak the script for the Tobe Hooper film. 'We’ve done 15 rewrites,' Schaech said of the project, 'and Stephen King loves it. He says it’s a great screenplay, which is sort of THE GREEN MILE meets STAND BY ME meets FRIDAY THE 13TH.'”
You can also go to the Fangoria Podcast page on iTunes and download an interview with Johnathon Schaech, whre he discusses the screenplay.
It was bound to happen sooner or later with all the rumors of remakes and such. We knew Amicus would eventually be touched in some way or another. A new version (or remake, as it's being touted) of Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot is heading into production this week with actor C. Thomas Howell (The Outsiders, E.T., Red Dawn, War of the Worlds) behind the camera working from a script by Darren Dalton (The Day the Earth Stopped, Scanner Cop). The book was famously adapted for the screen in 1975 for Amicus Productions and spawned a sequel, which was also produced by one half of the original Amicus partnership - Max Rosenburg. It was also historically significant as the last film that original Amicus co-founders Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg worked on together, ending a partnership that was over 20 years old at the time.
The new version will star Howell, Christopher Showerman (Frankenbabe, George of the Jungle 2) and Timothy Bottoms (Land of the Lost, Vampire Bats, The Man in the Iron Mask). More additions to the cast are to be made soon.
The film is expected to premiere on DVD and is said to be following the original film's plot pretty closely. In the original Amicus version, "a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and Neanderthal."
We thought that it was only appropriate to report on this, being that Mr. Prowse appeared in The People That Time Forgot as The Executioner. He also donated some autographed 8x10's for my Hammer Horror Holiday I did as a charity event for a local food bank. May we all pray for his health and well-being. This was taken from SciFi Wire:
"David Prowse, who wore Darth Vader's black armor in the original Star Wars movies, revealed that he is battling prostate cancer but is responding well to radiotherapy treatment for his illness, according to a report in the British Daily Mail newspaper.
The 73-year-old-actor, who appeared as Luke Skywalker's nemesis, has been undergoing radiotherapy for the last couple of months, the newspaper reported. Speaking on a British radio show, Prowse added that he was feeling fine.
Prowse is being treated at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London.
Originally a bodybuilder, Prowse played the Dark Lord in all three original films. Producers decided not to use his West Country English accent for the role, instead giving Lord Vader's lines to deep-voiced American actor James Earl Jones."
Fangoria Radio's Tony Timpone reported this among his scoops:
