The Omen
While never quite as culturally ubiquitous a fright dealership as sayHalloweenorA Nightmare on Elm Street , The Omenis another long - running horror film serial that it seems just wo n’t die . debut way back in 1976 , Richard Donner ’s originalOmenfilm was a Brobdingnagian hitting , popularise the concept of the Antichristwith mainstream moviegoers , and managing to forever ensure that anyone who pick out to name their nipper Damien will receive aside glance going forward . That success naturally spawned in high spirits - visibility sequels , withDamien : Muscat and Oman IIarriving in theaters in 1978 , andThe Final Conflictfinishing the trilogy proper in 1981 .
TheOmentrain at last seemed to operate out of steam with loosely bear on 1991 made for TV follow - upOmen IV : The Awakening , although producers did seek to come to the property via a profitable but chop-chop forgotten remake in 2006 . Despite the last two speculation fail to earn much plaudit , 20th Century Fox is once again train toresurrectThe Omen , this metre via a film fructify before the terrific outcome that conduct Ambassador Robert Thorne ( Gregory Peck ) to believe that his assume son was in fact the world - destroy Antichrist foretold in biblical Word of God .
accord toTHR , Fox studio apartment is in active ontogeny onThe First Omen , a prequel penned by author Ben Jacoby . In negotiation to organize the project is Antonio Campos , helmer of positively reviewed 2016 Sundance festival selectionChristine , a film in no direction tie in to John Carpenter ’s well - known adaptation of Stephen King ’s similarly name novel .
alas , little is have intercourse about the factual plot ofThe First Omen , outside of the fact that it ’s a prequel to the originalOmenfilm . Logically , this would harness out any appearances by members of the Thorne family in the narrative , although one adopt thatThe First Omenwill lede directly into the parentage of Damien somehow . Perhaps more will be revealed about the mysterious evil forces that pulled the strings need with ultimately getting the malevolent newborn adopted by a powerful American pol , or perhaps viewers will be introduce to someone who saw the sign of Damien ’s reaching get and set up out to forestall his parturition . On the other hand , The First Omencould conceivably take a less conventional approach , and present the scenario that Damien was n’t Satan ’s first attempt at creating an heir on Earth . The creative opening at present are somewhat astray open .
On the other manus , it ’s a bit unexpended that Fox ’s moving picture side has prefer to create anOmenprequel while theOmensequel seriesDamienis presently send on A&E. Not only could this glide path lead to possible over - saturation of the franchise , it also risks the possible confusion of the fanbase that might be because of two concurrent but unrelatedOmentimelines submit station on both the cock-a-hoop and small screen . To be comely though , Damien’sratingsaren’t incisively set up the world on fire , averaging only a 0.2 in the prized 18 - 49 demographic . By comparison , A&E flagship dramatic event seriesBates Motelcurrently averages a 0.6 . It ’s possible that Fox already see the writing on the wall forThe Omen’sTV incarnation , and is simply wasting no time in try out to breathe new life into the flagging dealership .
The First Omenis in ontogeny , and has no current handout date .
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