![]() ![]() Ohman eventually convinced the studio to distribute the film if he could get outside financing for it, which he got through producers Stuart Cornfeld and, improbably, Mel Brooks (who had also financed David Lynch’s screen version of The Elephant Man six years earlier). The pair brought Pogue’s script to 20 th Century Fox, which was initially enthusiastic about the project, but the studio was unhappy with Pogue’s work and declined to move forward. Producer Kip Ohman first had the idea of remaking The Fly in the early 1980s, recruiting screenwriter Charles Edward Pogue to write the script. It also marked a summation and endpoint to the first phase of Cronenberg’s career, while investing his work with a new emotional maturity and thematic resonance. Loosely based on a 1957 short story by French writer George Langelaan, the movie transcends the story’s pulpy origins and the well-known images of a man with a fly’s head (and vice versa) from the 1958 film version starring Vincent Price to become a somber meditation on disease and aging and a tragic love story, not to mention one of the most effective horror/sci-fi films of its time. ![]() The Fly arguably remains David Cronenberg’s masterpiece, over 30 years after its release. ![]()
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