The B-movie director will produce the projects, which will begin with a new adaptation of Poe’s House of Usher in 2013.
Corman tells The Hollywood Reporter, “Being able to do them in 3D with a lot of computer graphics, we can do things we never dreamed of doing before.”
One big difference in the updates will be Corman’s leading man – late horror icon Vincent Price starred in the original Poe films.
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The filmmaker reveals he is looking to cast an actor who can offer the “sensitivity and neuroticism that Vincent was able to bring”.
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