{"id":778,"date":"2014-01-25T01:18:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T01:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/themediawitches\/?p=778"},"modified":"2014-01-26T00:45:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T00:45:28","slug":"and-then-theres-the-rosemarys-baby-mini-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/themediawitches\/2014\/01\/and-then-theres-the-rosemarys-baby-mini-series\/","title":{"rendered":"And then there&#8217;s the ROSEMARY&#8217;S BABY mini-series&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/164\/2014\/01\/rosemarys-baby.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-779\" title=\"rosemarys-baby\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/164\/2014\/01\/rosemarys-baby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"270\"><\/a>Yeah, that.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least it\u2019s not the dreadful sounding adaptation that Michael Bay was planning to do with Jessica Alba and Doris Roberts (hooray for all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2009\/jun\/16\/the-birds-remake-michael-bay\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">fans who shared their outrage<\/a> and effectively killed this project); they\u2019d even been planning to change the title to \u201cThe Sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This mini-series version is directed by Agniezska Holland (who recently worked on the excellent American TV adaptation of THE KILLING which was a Danish series), and written by James Wong (from AMERICAN HORROR STORY).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/news\/3273939\/tv-rosemarys-baby-miniseries-cult-grows\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">This version<\/a> is set in Paris (huh? You mean France? Why?), and will star Zoe Saldana as Rosemary. I am not convinced there needed to be a remake of this 1968 excellent film (based upon Ira Levin\u2019s chilling novel), but we\u2019ll see\u2026but why a TV series? Would not a two hour movie suffice? 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