Platinum Dunes, the company founded by Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller, first rose to prominence courtesy of a series of horror franchise remakes, beginning with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003. The Amityville Horror, The Hitcher, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street all followed in its wake.
More recently, however, Plantium Dunes has brought us The Purge franchise and the recently released A Quiet Place. In a recent interview with CinePOP, Fuller and Form say that original genre entertainment is their main focus going forward and that they will no longer be remaking classic horror films, such as those mentioned above.
We’ve rebooted enough. We’ve done all of our [rebooted] horror movies. We’re not going to be doing that anymore.
While their visions weren't successful critically, they were somewhat successful both at the box office. Possibly due to their remakes' reception the pair have decided to forge a new path. The duo wants to focus on original stories, like their recent success A Quiet Place, as they explain below:
For us, as a company, we’re always looking for original material. And the idea of finding something original was important for us. We made [A Quiet Place] where there’s two to three minutes of talking in the movie, where sound is a full character, and it feels like audiences are really responding to those ingredients.
What do you think about the production company's new direction? Would you have liked to see them remake any other horror films? What do you think about their horror-remake endeavours?