It appears that plans to remake Kathryn Bigelow’s 1987 vampire western classic Near Dark have been cancelled. You can blame Twilight’s success for that, according to Empire.
"I think that ‘Twilight’ was the same type of thing we were going for although ‘Near Dark’ was a much darker, sexier, rated R version of that,” said producer Brad Fuller. “But I’m concerned that, conceptually, that ‘Near Dark’ and ‘Twilight’ are too similar in terms of a vampire movie. For now, that movie is on hold…with the success of that film [Twilight], we would not measure up. It’s not the right time to make that."
The original film had a young farmer falling in love with a girl to find out she’s a vampire. Platinum Dunes, the studio, is instead going forward with an as-yet-untitled supernatural thriller about satanic cults.
