Hammer Offered Ben Wheatley Captain Kronos Remake

Wheatley, as you know, helmed Kill List and the recent, trippy genre flick A Field in England.  Oakes, Hammer’s top dog, enthusiastically told the outlet this…

“I’ve offered it to Ben Wheatley!  I’ve told him Kronos is his whenever he wants it. You can put that in print! That might get him off his arse! [laughs] I’m a huge fan of Ben’s. I told him, ‘Whenever you want Kronos, it’s yours, mate. Just get back to me.’ And he never got back to me! So we’ll shame him in print into doing it now!”

Can I get a “hell yeah” for that?  I love that idea.  Here’s my problem with a Captain Kronos remake, however.  So many people – including David Goyer for the Blade series – cherry-picked ideas from Kronos, Hammer needs to find a way to make it fresh.

Oakes went on to say:

“The thing about Kronos is that it’s one of those things where we need to find a way in.  Brian Clemens wrote the first one saying he wanted to bring a modern take to the idea of the vampire hunter, and yet Kronos still wears tights! But the ambition and imagination at work in that film were what people responded to. People at Comic-Con always ask if we’re doing a new one, and I always say, ‘Yeah, we’re doing Kronos!’ and the blogosphere goes wild. So if we can find the right writer to reimagine it then that’s what we’ll do.”

Horst Janson played the eponymous character in the 1974 film.  Go check it out!

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