I hear that the producers decided to make it a prequel rather than a remake because they felt that attempting to remake the John Carpenter original would be like "drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa."
I'm excited for this movie. It sounds like the producers and director are really committed to making a worthy prequel to the original.
EDIT: Does anybody else find it funny that on this forum, mentioning the most famous painting of all time redirects to a porn star's page?
