US Remake of Thai Horror Shutter Starts Production In February

The US remake of Thai horror film Shutter - for which I bear a remarkable amount of fondness - gets before cameras next month and the first major names have finally been attached to the project. In the directors chair is Masayuki Ochiai, the Japanese director of Kansen - known on these shores as Infection - with Rachael Taylor in the lead. While I would have liked to see what the original Thai directors - and don't ask me to spell their names, because I can't - could do with this material with the increased budget a US production would give them they are currently tied up with both their jointly directed new film, Alone, as well as a pair of solo projects which renders them good and thoroughly unavailable and Ochiai is an interesting choice as stand in. It sounds as though the storyline has been modified slightly while also maintaining the core concept of spirit photography. In this version the lead characters are a young American couple on honeymoon in Tokyo who begin to find impressions of spirits in their photographs. Here's hoping they find a closing shot that matches the raw power of the original's ...

Thanks to Raihan for some of this.