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Behind the Camera || BY Frank DiGiacomo || 08 01 2012 4:00 PM

Coma Girl Dangles Again! Ridley and Tony Scott Revive Story Using Suspended Naked Lady Image From Original '78 Film

Ridley and Tony Scott know a thing or two about indelible movie scenes. So it's not surprising that the filmmakers behind, respectively, the chest burster scene in Alien and the "Bela Lugosi Is Dead"-accompanied blood-drinking scene at the opening of The Hunger would rely on an iconic single image to connect their A&E Network reboot of Coma to Michael Crichton's original 1978 movie adaptation of Robin Cook's novel about organ harvesting.
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Talkback || BY Jen Yamato || 01 13 2012 7:30 PM

Good Idea/Bad Idea: A&E Making a Psycho Prequel Series

TCA events bring news that A&E is developing a prequel series to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, to revolve around the early life of one Norman Bates and his beloved mother at the infamous Bates Motel. While intriguing, it prompts more than a few questions... like, who wants to watch teenage Norman devolve into filmdom's most notorious creep on a weekly basis? What gives writer Anthony Cipriano the authority to explore Hitch's iconic killer? And, most depressing of all to ponder -- do people these days even care about Psycho anymore?
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