Japanese Cube Remake is Coming and It Has a Teaser – /FILM

In 1997, the low-budget Canadian horror filmCube became a cult hit, spawning a franchise and earning the attention of Hollywood, which would inevitably commence plans to develop a remake. But Japan has beat Hollywood to the punch, releasing their ownCube remake while Lionsgates long-in-development version remains on hold.Shochiku, a major Japanese film producer and distributor, released the first teaser for theCube remake, which you can watch below.

Remakes of J-horror are abundant in Hollywood, but its rare that Japan will turn to the West to remake a horror film. But the premise ofCube, a 1997 science fiction thriller from director Vincenzo Natali about six people trapped in a maze-like cube designed to kill them, was too hard to resist. Indeed, Natalis film was a cult hit in Japan following its September 1998 release, and its easy to see why its a Kafkaesque thriller full of brutal shocks, and a puzzling mystery that must be solved by the protagonists under penalty of death.Its the kind of surrealhigh-concept horror that Japanese filmmakers have turned out in spades, soCubetranslates well into a J-horror film (even if the lack of subtitles on the above teaser means were not sure what theyre saying). The short teaser released above shows familiar imagery to fans of the originalCube: six strangers dressed in drab grey uniforms, waking up in a strange industrial maze of cubes all filled with traps.

ShochikusCube remake is directed byShimizu Yasuhiko (2019sVise) and stars Suda Masaki, Okada Masaki, Tashiro Hikaru, Saito Takumi, and Anne.Natali serves as creative advisor, according to Variety.

No one can resist the powerful system of the Cube, Shimizu said in a statement. In making this film, it was as though we entered the Cube itself. (That was because we shot the entire film in one place.) We then had to confront ourselves. What lurks in the abyss of the self hope or despair? You will soon be in the Cube with us. In fact, you may already be in it.

The remake was shot in October and November of last year and is based on an adapted script written by Tokuo Koji. JapansCube remake manages to make its way to the big screen before Lionsgates long planned remake ofCube, which wasannounced back in 2015.Described as a reimagining of the classic Canadian cult horror film, Lionsgates version went by the title Cubed, with Saman Kesh directing and a screenplay by Jon Spaihts.

Cubewill open in Japan on October 22, 2021.

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Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero