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The latest remake news is that Zach Snyder will be making a new film version of Ray Bradbury’s collection of short stories, The Illustrated Man. The film, as currently envisioned, will take several stories as told by a story teller with talking tatoos. There is no announcement regarding which of the short stories will be filmed.

One can only imagine that Snyder’s version will be an improvement over the previous film version made in 1969, and available on DVD. Starring Rod Steiger and his wife of the time, Claire Bloom, Steiger has even said that the 1969 Illustrated Man was one of the worse films of his career. Ray Bradbury’s original collection was published in 1951. It will be a couple of years before we see this new version on the screen as Snyder is currently preparing his production of Watchmen.

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