Anybody keeping score on these?
Hannibal
Psycho
Goodfellas
What am I missing?

We already had this as a movie with Psycho IV.

simplicimus: Anybody keeping score on these?
Hannibal
Psycho
Goodfellas
What am I missing?

Yeah, that's the round up. They're supposedly doing a Star Wars live action series set between the prequels and the original trilogy so it's a prequel of sorts.

Because The Sarah Chronicles did so well.

/liked The Sarah Chronicles

dletter: We already had this as a movie with Psycho IV.

Really though, do we have to deconstruct everything? Whatever you think of the prequels, Darth Vader did have a character arc, granted. But Hannibal Lecter, Norman Bates, even the Halloween remake gave Michael Myers a tortured back story. What ever happened to just crazy?

Kanemano: I hope it focuses on the secretary that steals from her boss and runs away to a Holiday inn for a good night sleep every week,
She can arrive at the Bates motel in season two

You know what I love best about the first act in that movie?

This woman is a thief. She stole from her employer, and she's on the run. She's having an affair, she lies, she cheats, and she bamboozles every person she encounters. In every measurable instance of what you know about this woman so far, she is almost a psychopath herself. She doesn't care about others, she has questionable morals and judgment, and she's trying to get away with it. She has no redeeming qualities whatsoever -- she is effectively the villain.

BUT YET -- for some reason YOU, the audience, is PULLING for her. You WANT her to escape, you want her to be free, and to succeed. Why? She's a criminal, why do we want her to win? The best scene is when the state trooper pulls her over. He's got his giant reflective sunglasses on, so he looks at once menacing and dehumanizing. He asks her lots of probing questions, and all you the audience can think is "that mean ole' cop, doing his job, getting on this woman's case! How dare he!"

It's part of Hitchcock's mastery storytelling that he could manipulate you into feeling this way about these characters, how the woman in every sense is the antagonist yet is still portrayed as the hero. It makes her shower scene that much more evocative and shocking and multi-dimensional, because on the one hand you didn't want it to happen, but on the other hand she had it coming. She was a rotten person.

/Psycho should never have been a franchise
//The first movie is one of the most perfect movies ever made. But the story ends there..... there's not really anything left to tell.

Nowhereman: When is she having an affair? Sam Loomis is her boyfriend.

Oh was he? ....I coulda sworn she was married and he was her extra-marital lover. Although that doesn't make sense because when she goes missing he and her sister are the only ones who look for her (and not her husband?), so maybe I'm misremembering how things go. It's been years since I've seen the movie.

Still, in those days having sex out of wedlock was mostly frowned upon so the opening scene still sets her up as a bit of a floozy. But you watch her mannerisms and behavior... it's all stilted and detatched. As if Hitchcock wants to sell you the idea that she is the psycho.... and she is, technically, until she met a bigger one.

That's why her dinner conversation with Norman Bates is so creepy. It's two sociopaths trying to be social.

dletter: We already had this as a movie with Psycho IV.

Yep. That told a lot of Norman Bates' back story.

Ishkur: Nowhereman: When is she having an affair? Sam Loomis is her boyfriend.

Oh was he? ....I coulda sworn she was married and he was her extra-marital lover. Although that doesn't make sense because when she goes missing he and her sister are the only ones who look for her (and not her husband?), so maybe I'm misremembering how things go. It's been years since I've seen the movie.

Still, in those days having sex out of wedlock was mostly frowned upon so the opening scene still sets her up as a bit of a floozy. But you watch her mannerisms and behavior... it's all stilted and detatched. As if Hitchcock wants to sell you the idea that she is the psycho.... and she is, technically, until she met a bigger one.

That's why her dinner conversation with Norman Bates is so creepy. It's two sociopaths trying to be social.

No, she wasn't married. However, the other secretary in the office where she worked was. And that secretary was played by Patricia Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock's daughter.

redmid17: Screw that. A prequel to American Psycho would be more entertaining

Screw that. A prequel to American Ninja would be more entertaining.

I wonder if they have budgeted for travel expenses to Westwood Memorial Park in LA, and enough beer for the
producers to allow them to get a really good whiz on Robert Bloch's grave?

DjangoStonereaver: I wonder if they have budgeted for travel expenses to Westwood Memorial Park in LA, and enough beer for the
producers to allow them to get a really good whiz on Robert Bloch's grave?

I was thinking Hitchcock but then there isn't anything they could do that would be worse than the remake.