David Fincher Explores The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

Director David Fincher and his former “Seven” writer Andrew Kevin Walker (Really? Two first names? That’s just greedy) will be remaking the 1975 supernatural thriller “The Reincarnation of Peter Proud” by Max Ehrlich, who wrote the novel and the movie adaptation for director J. Lee Thompson. The film didn’t set the world on fire, though apparently it did stir up a bit of controversy for including a subplot that involved incest.

The story follows college professor Peter Proud, who begins having recurring dreams and nightmares and, realizing they are images of a past life, decides to search out the source of the visions for some answers. With his girlfriend in tow, our hero discovers a woman and her daughter may be keys to unlocking his past life, though perhaps he should just have left it all alone. Past lives, I tell ya, unless you were Cleopatra or Abraham Lincoln (which is apparently 90% of every loon who claims to know their past lives), is probably best left in, well, the past.

The original starred Michael Sarrazin, and co-starred Jennifer O’Neill, “Supermans’” Margot Kidder, and Cornelia Sharpe.

Fincher will direct the remake and Walker will once again script for Columbia and producer Michael De Luca, who also had a hand in the duo’s 1995 serial killer masterpiece “Seven” back in the day. The story will be updated, so you know what that means, kids, no groovy bell bottoms. Oh well, sacrifices must be made.

That'll teach him to go to sleep nekkid.