Sam Raimi reportedly directing a remake of Magic, Anthony Hopkins’ traditional evil doll film

Sam Raimi might have returned to the director’s chair in a giant approach with Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity, however it will appear that he’s trying to return to his old-school horror roots with a remake of one of many extremely underrated evil doll films — Magic.

Directed by Richard Attenborough, Magic starred Anthony Hopkins as a ventriloquist who’s on the mercy of his vicious dummy whereas he tries to resume a romance along with his highschool sweetheart. It seems that Sam Raimi is a giant fan of Magic, and producer Roy Lee let it slip on the Put up Mortem with Mick Garris podcast (by way of Bloody Disgusting) that Raimi is definitely gearing as much as direct a remake of the film.

“I’ve solely labored with [Sam Raimi] as a producer on movies… truly… the primary time I’m gonna work with him as a director is on a remake of Magic,” Roy Lee stated. “Which is one thing that we’re engaged on now. The Anthony Hopkins film. We’re simply truly listening to the ultimate variations of the completely different takes from writers subsequent week… [Sam] liked the unique film and the ebook written by William Goldman.“

As Roy Lee stated, Magic was based mostly on the novel by William Goldman, the legendary writer behind The Princess Bride and Marathon Man. Goldman additionally penned the screenplays for All of the President’s Males and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child. It sounds just like the script for the Magic remake continues to be being developed, so I wouldn’t essentially take into account Sam Raimi directing to be a certain factor at this level. However simply give it some thought… Sam Raimi and an evil ventriloquist dummy? Carry it on!