What is up with all these remakes… doesn’t anyone have an original idea anymore… 🙄
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NEW YORK (Variety) – Nicole Kidman will be joining the ranks of “The Stepford Wives.” She’ll star in Paramount’s remake of the 1975 thriller, which revolves around a group of husbands who transform their feisty wives into robots that cater to their every whim.
Frank Oz (The Score) is directing.
The concept will be contemporized by more than having the wives carting kids around in minivans and SUVs instead of station wagons. While the original adaptation of the Ira Levin novel was a straight thriller, the revamp is considered to be more of a sophisticated black comedy. It was scripted by Paul Rudnick, who has mined that genre with the comedies “In & Out,” “The Addams Family Values” and “Marci X.”
Kidman will play the role originated by Katharine Ross, a newcomer to the neighborhood who realizes something is amiss with the housewives who seem a bit too interested in household chores and other ways of pleasing their hubbies. Aside from comedy, the new film will feature special effects involving the femme transformations.
Kidman next will be seen alongside Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore in the Stephen Daldry-directed “The Hours,” which Paramount will release in December. The plan is for her to step into “Wives” right after she completes the Jonathan Glazer-directed “Birth” for Fine Line Features.