- THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN
Richard Matheson's 1956 novel The Shrinking Man, is about a
man exposed to radiation who shrinks to the size of an insect. This novel is
considered by many fans of Sci-fi, to be a true classic sci-fi tale and now it
looks like it will be adapted for the big screen once again.
A year after it was published, Matheson adapted his own
novel to the screen as The Incredible Shrinking Man and one or both of those
probably had a huge influence on Stan Lee when he created the Marvel character
Ant-Man, which is currently in development by Edgar Wright and Marvel Studios
for a film set for release on November 6, 2015.
Its reported that MGM has just picked up the movie rights to
Matheson's novel with the soon-to-be 87-year-old author co-producing and
co-writing the screenplay adaptation of his own work with his son Richard
Matheson Jr. Their plans are to keep the tone of the story but to modernize it
incorporating advancements in nanotechnology.
Matheson is responsible for many original horror and fantasy
stories that directly influenced the likes of Will Smith's I Am Legend, Hugh
Jackman's Reel Steel and Steven Spielberg's early film Duel.
Universal Pictures was trying to make a new comedy version
of The Incredible Shrinking Man with director Brett Ratner and Eddie Murphy, a
few years ago. However, thankfully that project seems to be long dead as
Universal lost the rights to Matheson's novel last year.
Speaking from what appears to be a press release, Matheson
calls the remake "an existential action movie" adding, “My original
story was a metaphor for how man’s place in the world was diminishing. That
still holds today, where all these advancements that are going to save us will
be our undoing.”
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