Having gone by these different key phases of a traditional title – sequels and a reboot – 1982 horror Poltergeist is approaching one other. Never ones to let a recognizable identify sit round of their library after they may very well be doing one thing with it, MGM/Amazon Studios are creating a TV collection based mostly on Tobe Hooper’s scary traditional. And sure, it isn’t misplaced on us that the corporate selected the day earlier than Halloween to announce this.
The authentic movie centered on the Freeling household, who transfer into a brand new residence solely to find that it’s infested with a horde of ghosts. After the spirits kidnap their younger daughter, the Freelings work with a parapsychologist and a religious medium to free their daughter and escape the ghosts. It was an enormous success, incomes $121 million worldwide, nabbing three Oscar nominations and spawning two sequels. Four-season collection Poltergeist: The Legacy additionally spun off from it, although the one connection between the film and the present is the idea of the Legacy, which helped retrieve Carol Ann Freeling within the first movie.
Amblin tv will likely be concerned, because it produced the unique movie, with Steven Spielberg having provide you with the story, co-written the screenplay, and produced it. There aren’t any plot particulars out there but, past the very fact the present will likely be set throughout the world of the film.
