Today's News: Neil Marshall will hunt trolls after Game of Thrones

Posted this on MS the other day:

http://www.moviescene.nl/p/150227/neil_marshall_maakt_remake_troll_hunter

As with any successful European movie, the Americans are not far behind with their remake. Even though the Norse film The Troll Hunter (original name: Trolljegeren) was only a moderate hit, it was apparently good enough for a US studio to try its luck with it. It may not be a bad thing, since some American remakes of Euro-flicks end up rather good movies (Let Me In, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), even though I'm generally averse to the entire concept of remaking. In this case less so (call me a hypocrit if you must!), since I sadly missed out on The Troll Hunter when it was running its all too brief course in Dutch theaters. I wanted to see it, but it didn't do well enough here to allow it to run for more than two weeks unfortunately. Like I said, it was not a smash hit, only a minor one. I was actually surprised to see it at my local theaters at all.

As for Neil Marshall: great choice! First of all he's British, so we'll be getting a bit of that much needed European sensitivity in this US remake (only enhanced by the fact the original producers of Trolljegeren are on board as well). Second, Marshall makes my kind of movies. The Descent, Doomsday, Centurion; solid, dynamic action/horror flicks all, demonstrating great craftsmanship on a fairly low budget - and 25 million dollars could be labeled as such - to excellent results in terms of good fun. Plus, Marshall doesn't take his own movies too seriously, which is also a plus when dealing with the likes of trolls. Furthermore, the director who gave us Blackwater on Game of Thrones is a guy we owe the benefit of the doubt. Especially now that he's supposedly working on another epic episode of GoT: so far all clues point to the Wildling attack on the Wall, which under Marshall's direction is something I have no hesitations about in terms of final quality. It's gonna be awesome. And I am rather convinced the same will be true of Marshall's Troll Hunter in time. I won't miss this film a second time, that's for sure.