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RKO reawakening with the 'Dead'


August 15, 2007 RKO Pictures is bringing new life to the Boris Karloff cult film "Isle of the Dead," hiring writers Brian Horiuchi and Matt Lazarus to adapt a remake. In the 1945 film directed by Val Lewton, Karloff played a Greek military commander on an island where a plague breaks out. "Val Lewton made his name by taking the horror genre to a new place," said RKO chairman and CEO Ted Hartley, who will produce.

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