JJ Abrams, Producer of TV’s ‘Lost‘, ‘Cloverfield’ and the much anticipated ‘Star Trek’ revamp is teaming with original ‘Omen‘ scribe David Seltzer to “shake up audiences” for an earthquake disaster film. Abrams says that this film is NOT a remake of the 1974 offering Earthquake (seen in the poster above). Keeping with Abrams usual M.O. details are sketchy but if the innovative and creepy Cloverfield is any indication this should be at least an 8.0 on the richter scale (I’m such a hack).
Personally I like disaster films. I’m looking forward to this one. In fact I enjoy disaster films so much that my wife and I took in the original Poseidon Adventure (not the most recent excuse for a film of the same name) again recently. Billed as “Hell, upside down” Poseidon follows a band of clichéd one dimensional characters on a hacky formulaic quest to escape the bowels of a flipped over ocean liner lead by Gene Hackman as a hip minister who’s lost his faith. Crap, but fun crap.
Especially fun was watching for the ubiquitous mid-70’s morality messages in the film. What did we learn? We learned that even if you’re the hooker with a heart of gold who’s changed your ways, you should never pick on fat ladies. You’ll die.
Who dies picking on fat ladies in Abrams’ movie? I guess that remains to be seen.
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