It’s hard to escape this new trend. There are more and more serial adaptations of films. After Millénium announced a few days ago, it’s time to bring Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist to the small screen with the Amazon platform.
The screenwriter has not been announced yet variety Clarifies that Darryl Frank and Justin Folvey are producing the program with Amblin.
This isn’t the first time Poltergeist has been adapted for the big screen. In the late 1990s, a TV series called Poltergeist: Adventurers of the Supernatural followed a team of experts battling unexplained and sinister phenomena. Four seasons were produced.
Released more than 40 years ago, Poltergeist is a classic of American horror cinema. Its popularity is based on its numerous special effects – already very impressive at the time – but also on all the strange stories that surround the production.
First: Steven Spielberg, as producer and co-writer, would secretly direct the film in place of Tobe Hooper.
Other stories are far more tragic. Many sources have long claimed that Poltergeist is a cursed movie. During filming, young actor Oliver Robbins is almost estranged from the clown doll.
In 1982, when the film was released, actor Dominic Dunne, who plays the teenager in the family, was killed by his partner. Two other actors who appeared in the sequel, Poltergeist II, also died.
Finally, young Heather O’Rourke, the saga’s angelic and emblematic figure, died at the age of 12 from an infection during surgery. Three Poltergeists will remain the only films in his filmography.
Source: Allocine
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