Why a remake of AMITYVILLE HORROR?
Most remakes were offered to us after “Chainsaw”. I personally grew up on Long Island and I had been to the house where this happened, which led to us talking about taking this movie that made $85 in 1979, and retelling this story that was rooted in reality. George Lutz was involved with a competing Dimension project so he couldn’t be involved, so we based things off the original Amityville project. Also, Michael Bay is a huge fan of true crime. There’s ho ‘hands off’ with Michael. His name is there, he wants the quality to be there as well. Nothing slips through the cracks. How did you choose the director? Same as CHAINSAW. Michael Bay wanted to take a commercial director from the world he came from, TV commercials. Someone familiar with a set. A great shooter. Andrew Douglas came in and pitched us the movie he wanted to make. By the way, we’re going to do another CHAINSAW. A prequel, three years prior. Will it be as violent? It may be more violent. It’s funny, you become totally dese
