Screen Rant » capricorn one http://screenrant.com TV and Movie News, Reviews & Trailers Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:01:43 +0000 en hourly 1 Remake # 798: Capricorn One http://screenrant.com/remake-798-capricorn-one-niall-1654/ http://screenrant.com/remake-798-capricorn-one-niall-1654/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:59:32 +0000 Niall Browne http://dev2.screenrant.com/remake-798-capricorn-one-1654/ Capricorn One remakeYes, it’s another week and therefore there must be the announcement of yet another remake.

This time it’s Peter Hyams’ 1978 Sci-Fi thriller Capricorn One.

The original was a neat conspiracy tale following three astronauts (James Brolin, Sam Waterston and O.J Simpson, yes that O.J Simpson) on a manned mission to Mars. However, they didn’t really land on Mars. Due to a fault with their ship, they are in fact in a film studio in the desert filming, their “Mars walks” on a sound stage.

Elliott Gould plays an investigative journalist who suspects that the landings have been faked.

Soon Brolin, Waterston and Simpson are on the run (some things never change) fighting for their lives in the desert, while Gould is trying to nail the story of the century.

Fellow Irishman John Moore will direct the film. Moore seems to have a love ...

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