Wes Craven on Cursed

Director Wes Craven recently talked to Sci Fi Wire about three projects, including the troubled werewolf movie Cursed. Craven says that many of the film's scenes will have to be reshot, and possibly recast, when the film resumes production in November.

He added that makeup guru Rick Baker has retired, turning over responsibility for the film's werewolf makeup to KNB. "I haven't seen that hit the news yet, but he shut down his studio. All of the elements have been taken over by KNB for us."

Filming had commenced for 11 weeks before Dimension Films stopped production in June and ordered a script rewrite. "Quite an extraordinary amount of new material is going to be shot, and a lot of material is going to be thrown away."

Wes Craven was also working on bringing the video game American McGee's Alice and his own novel Fountain Society to the big screen for Dimension, but he now says those projects are pretty much dead.

"[We] never got a script that Dimension liked," he says about "Alice", a dark retelling of Alice in Wonderland. "So it's been pushed way back on the back burner."

Meanwhile, Fountain Society, his story about cloning in the future, also had script problems. The studio wasn't interested in the philosophical issues raised by a story about an old scientist's brain transplanted into his young clone's body. "A large part of it was about the continuing relationship with his wife, who remained old," he said. "It kind of turned us into a movie that was just basically a chase movie, and we were never really able to get to the point where we were all enthusiastic about it."