Robert Harmon News

May 9, 2006
Sophia Bush to Entice "The Hitcher"
Looks like some cast & crew are coming together for Platinum Dunes / Rogue's remake of "The Hitcher," which is a brilliantly nasty cult classic from 1985 that stars C. Thomas Howell as a stupid driver and Rutger Hauer as the hitchhiker from hell. More...

June 27, 2005
Bay & Co. Get Some Filmmakers for Their "Hitcher" Remake
Variety reminds us that we reported on Platinum Dunes' "Hitcher" remake a little while ago -- by announcing the all-new director and screenwriter. Veteran music video director Dave Meyers will helm Rogue Pictures' revisit of Robert Harmon's "The Hitcher," and he'll be doing so from a screenplay penned by Jake Wade Wall, a relative newcomer who just wrote "When a Stranger Calls" for Simon West (also a remake). More...

April 18, 2005
Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes "Hitch" on to Another Remake
No sooner is one remake an opening weekend hit than Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners are press-releasing a new production. As "The Amityville Horror" was enjoying a smashing debut weekend, the Dunes boys announced that their next project will be a remake of Robert Harmon's 1986 cult classic "The Hitcher," which starred C. Thomas Howell as a terrorized motorist and Rutger Hauer as one of the coolest movie villains ever devised. More...