"The Day of the Triffids" 3-D (2013) feature film

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John Wyndham's 1951 science fiction thriller novel The Day of the Triffids is getting a 3-D feature film production.

A remake of the original Day of the Triffids AKA Invasion of the Triffids(1962) film [93 min.] and the two mini series remakes:
"The Day of the Triffids" (1981) (TV mini-series) 156 minutes &
"The Day of the Triffids" (2009) BBC (TV mini-series) $15 million budget, 180 minutes

now the dystopian plant fest is heading for the big screen once more with a 3D feature from Michael Pregerd. Pregerd is the same producer who put the 2009 BBC1 miniseries together.

Preger's company purchased the screen rights to the novel in 1991 with the intention of developing a big screen film with Transformers producer Dan Murphy.

In The Day of the Triffids, poisonous plants run amok after almost everyone has been blinded by a solar storm (or was it a military experiment gone awry?). With most of the population blind, the slow moving Triffids with their fatal stings take over.

The last major movie adaptation of The Day of the Triffids was the extremely bad 1963 version directed by Steve Sekely and staring Howard Keel as Bill Masen, which ended with Masen spraying the Triffids with sea water, causing them to dissolve. Hopefully they can come up with a better (less pathetic!) adaptation this time around.

imdb listing:
The Day of the Triffids (2013)

Hmm I'm gonna guess they will make the plants very scary in 3-D and go sci-fi horror...

for reference the 2 TrekBBS threads:
Day of the triffids
BBC Remaking Day of the Triffids

 

[Harry Palmer]

I wouldn't mind seeing a 3-D treatment for the Triffids. Out of all the incarnations so far the '81 mini is by far my favorite.

 

[Greg Cox]

Cool! I've been wondering when Triffids was going to get a big-budget Hollywood remake?

 

[Saga]

i just started reading the book actually. haven't seen the old film.