Wes Craven‘s 1991 horror movie The People Under the Stairs is getting new life over at Universal, Collider reports today, with Jordan Peele on board to produce a remake of the film.
Collider’s Jeff Sneider notes, “though Peele is not expected to direct the film himself, it remains unclear whether he and/or Rosenfeld will have a hand in writing the script.”
Peele will produce for Monkeypaw Productions alongside Win Rosenfeld.
In the 1991 original, “Two adults and a juvenile break into a house occupied by a brother and sister and their stolen children. There, they must fight for their lives.”
Brandon Quintin Adams starred alongside Ving Rhames, Everett McGill and Wendy Robie.
As Justin Yandell noted in a Bloody Disgusting article back in 2018, Craven’s The People Under the Stairs is a film rife with current day relevance and strong social commentary.
“The People Under the Stairs is plainly about the marginalization of minorities, class inequality, sexism, the patriarchy, isolationist nationalism and even healthcare. All the topics at the center of today’s rising culture war were highlighted on-screen a quarter-of-century ago in a movie that came and went with little fanfare,” Yandell wrote in the aforementioned article.
Whether as producer, writer, director or all three, Peele has proven himself a master of socially relevant horror, so it’s great to hear that he’ll be creatively involved with a new take.
source https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3639594/jordan-peele-producing-new-take-wes-cravens-people-stairs-universal/
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