A remake of 1956’s is in the works at Warner Bros. Forbidden Planet was directed by Fred M. Wilcox and stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen.
The movie is a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and is widely considered to be one of the best sci-fi flicks of the 1950s.
Per Deadline, Warner Bros. is now working on a new version of Forbidden Planet. The Forbidden Planet remake is being written by Brian K.
Vaughan, who is known for writing comic book series such as Saga, Paper Girls, Runaways, Y: The Last Man, and more. Emma Watts will produce the film. “It has never had a big-screen remake — though James Cameron reportedly once considered it — partly because the rights were complicated and difficult to untangle,” Deadline’s article notes. “The studio and Watts finally got that major obstacle out of the way.
The former studio chief Watts has leaned into producing the big ambitious tentpoles she shepherded from the executive suites, and this has the makings to be one of those.” Plot details and casting information for the Forbidden Planet remake remain under wraps at this time.