THEY'LL GET YOU WHEN YOU SLEEP, JOHN WATERS.

German director snatches Kidman's body, takes it to Orioles game?

The upcoming big budget remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS will be blessed by the wet-lipped, dewy-eyed presence of Nicole Kidman. The Aussie actress will put her constant quivering and quailing to use as the woman who first notices that the people of her town are uniting in a sinister hive-mind, and who bands together with the few unaffected citizens to try to combat the extraterrestrial epidemic at fault.

German director Oliver Hirschbiegel will be the fourth filmmaker to retell Jack Finney’s original story, which has proven itself a fertile field of multifaceted allegorical material. Don Siegel’s 1956 INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS located the tale in the sort of tiny suburb that was a familiar breeding ground for the virulent conformity and commie paranoia that dominated its contemporary culture. Philip Kaufman’s 1978 INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS took place in San Francisco, which was once the counter-cultural capital of the country, but by the late ‘70s was just as affected as any other city by the horrors of Vietnam, endless embarrassing political scandals and assassinations. Professional wino Abel Ferrara’s 1993 take, simply entitled BODY SNATCHERS, transpired on a military base where the soldiers were pod people, and found release when the Gulf War and its attendant syndrome were still a fresh wound for many. What purpose can this overripe social allegory serve today’s times? Well, let’s have a look at where shooting will begin in October: Baltimore. That’s right, the crime-ridden white trash capital of the country will host the alien spores as waspy porcelain doll Kidman races around trying to stem the spreading plague.

Kidman will be joining Hirschbiegel in Maryland after Wong-Kar Wai finishes with the leading lady in his remake of LADY FROM SHANGHAI, which will begin shooting in St. Petersburg “sometime soon”, according to Production Weekly.

For that and other titillating vagueries, go to: http://www.productionweekly.com/site.html

For a roundup of all the scant details on the coming INVASION: http://www.upcominghorrormovies.com/movies/bodysnatchers.php

And for the curious, creepy celeb worship and details on Wong-Kar Wai’s latest attempt to rejuvenate the noir genre can be found here: http://nicolekidmanunited.com/NicoleKidmanFilmography/TheLadyFromShanghai/