NBC releases 'Rosemary's Baby' teaser

NBC releases 'Rosemary's Baby' teaser

And they've set it in ... Paris??? It was so much about the New York setting and the ominous world of the Dakota that if Ira Levin were still alive, I wonder if he would sue for false advertising.

As I posted at the time, I attended a repertory screening of Roman Polanski's classic film in Cambridge's Brattle Theatre (originally founded by a group including our own Thayer David!), and I was very tickled to learn that the Witches Coven in the movie acclaimed 1966 as Year One of Satan.  Given that that was also the founding of our favorite show, the coincidence amused me very much.  (Especially given that a few fundamentalist religious groups targeted DS back in the day as "Satan's favorite TV show."  LOL!)

G.

kind of a brief "teaser". what is anyone supposed to take away from that???

what's funny is on some of the FB boards a chorus of know-it-alls(who, as usual, know nothing)are insisting that Ira Levin's' original novel was set in Paris, Roman Polanski "moved" it to New York for his filmed version of the story, and now this is "returning" it to it's original location...


whatever.

Pretty banal teaser.

what's funny is on some of the FB boards a chorus of know-it-alls(who, as usual, know nothing)are insisting that Ira Levin's' original novel was set in Paris

All anyone has to do is read the first sentence on the inside flap of the hardcover to know that's not true because it says:

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse were delighted at the chance to move into the Bramford, one of Manhattan's oldest and most celebrated apartment houses.

 

there's another of this type on one of the DS boards who, no matter how many times he' been corrected, insists that Liz is Victoria's mother because he "read it" in 'shadows on the wall'.

'Rosemary's Baby': See the first footage from NBC's remake

Well, I don't know.  There isn't much in that trailer to go by.  That being said, often I disagree in calling an adaptation of an original work into another film a "remake."  It's another adaptation of the original work (in this case, Levin's novel), not a remake of the previous classic cinematic version.  It's like Spielberg's adaptation of HG Wells The War of the Worlds.  It was an adaptation of the novel, not a remake of the classic 1953 film - although it paid homage to it).  The same with Carrie.  The first film adaptation came in 1976 with the classic DePalma film.  Then came the 2002 version, updated but closer to the novel than the first film (but also paying homage to it, since Larry Cohen who was involved in the first was involved in the second), and then the latest with Chloe Moretz brought into the twenty-teens that was the flattest.  Maybe there's a reason why the newest Rosemary's Baby had its locale moved from New York (as in the novel) to Paris (and whatever changes also occur).  I guess we'll have to wait and see.  This could be a better adaptation of the novel and we need to wait.  I consider the 2002 version of Carrie superior to the classic 1976 version (and I know that's heresy).

Gerard

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VIDEO: Watch the First Trailer for NBC's Rosemary's Baby Miniseries

Finally more than brief glimpses.

It looks so schlocky... not a hint of the atmosphere that made the 1968 film so memorable... I see the role of Minnie Castevets has been rewritten as Margaux and a French actress cast... She's a year older than me so middle aged and no doubt much more glam than the funky yet frightening persona the immortal Ruth Gordon projected...

G.

my god. that looks absolutely DREADFUL.

WAY worse that I could have imagined it.

We need to give it a chance.  This is not a "remake" of Polanski's film; it's another adaption of Levin's novel.  Let's wait and see.  As good an Polansski's cinematic version was, there's nothing to say a better one couldn't come along.  I enjoyed the '02 version of Carrie much more than the '76 which is a classic on its own standing.  The '13 version was a dud.  Let's wait and see.  We've had four versions of DS.  The original stands on its own with all its many, many foibles.  The '91 was a Hammeresque brought-down.  The '04, from what we've been seeing here so far has been admirable.  The '12, to me, was among the best.  Let's wait and see.

Gerard

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