The JACOB'S LADDER Remake Will Have a New Twist Ending

Midnight Meat Train, The Prodigy, and Pet Sematary writer Jeff Buhler has been developing a remake of the 1990 psychological horror thriller, Jacob’s Ladder since 2013. Production on the film has been delayed and in a recent interview with Rue Morgue, he explains why he thinks the film has been put on hold, saying:

"I think [the delay] was because the market had a whole handful of these movies—and maybe I inadvertently had a hand in this, because The Prodigy was slated for February 8th. Escape Room was coming out, and there were a whole bunch of other psychological thrillers and horror films stacked up for January and February, so they bumped it to later in the year. They announced that original date, but then when they moved off of it, they never announced that fact. So everyone was operating under the assumption that it was opening February 1st, but that wasn’t the case."

He also went on to reveal that they changed some things in the film and gave it a new twist ending. In the original film, "A haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to discover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusion, and perception of death."

It was previously explained that the plan was to make the remake "something more akin to an homage and not mimic the original." The remake will "contemporize the story with new situations and characters but still maintain a story that examines issues and poses existential questions." As far as the new ending goes, Buhler explained:

"We came up with a cool twist that’s different from the one in the original, but has that same spirit: You’re following this story with these characters, and then all of a sudden everything gets flipped on its head, and you’re like, ‘Whoa! Things are different than I thought.’”

The Jacobs Ladder remake is set to be directed by David M. Rosenthal (The Perfect Guy) and it will star Michael Ealy (Underworld: Awakening), Guy Burnet (Ray Donovan), Karla Souza (How to Get Away with Murder) and Nicole Beharie (Sleepy Hollow).

What do you all think about this remake; what do you think of them changing up the ending?

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