"Seconds" sounds like a Twilight Zone episode from this year... (1 Viewer)

[todd s]

I was just at www.darkhorizons.com and saw this preview of a new movie.

SECONDS- The story of a man who is given the chance at rebirth by a group called the Seconds Company. For a price, they can surgically alter you to resemble anyone on the planet, and insert you into that person's life. What happens though if you start to regret your decision?

This sounds a lot like an episode from the 2002 version of the Twilight Zone. Here is the TZ synopsis:

FUTURE TRADE- Martin Donner, a beset-upon hardware clerk, finds out about a company called "Future Trade" that arranges a trade between two people who want to trade their futures and their lives with each other. Donner agrees and trades with a businessman with a rich, expensive life with an attractive girlfriend named Francesca. However, after the deadline passes for him to back out, he finds out the reason the businessman traded lives.

 

[Jason Seaver]

Heck, sounds an awful lot like a John Frankenheimer movie starring Rock Hudson (although that one didn't feature people being inserted into already-existing lives).

 

[Michael Reuben]

Heck, sounds an awful lot like a John Frankenheimer movie starring Rock Hudson

Yeah, that sounds vaguely familiar.

M.

 

[John Watson]

Sounds like deja vu, encore

 

[Chris Lockwood]

What Frankenheimer movie is that?

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

SECONDS, starring Rock Hudson and directed by John Frankenheimer. One of the better science-fiction films around, it's both thoughtful and frightening.

 

[Jason Seaver]

Well, I wouldn't go that far. The science in it is goofy, and the restored (longer) version seemed interminable at points both times I saw it in the past year. This is one I think could actually benefit from a remake; I always felt that when the guy was made young, his environment still seemed a little stiff. It might be enjoyable to see the movie cut loose, and really give the feeling that the Rock Hudson character is out of place.

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

I didn't say best, I said better (think Top 25 science fiction films) .

I always felt that when the guy was made young, his environment still seemed a little stiff.

Well, I think that's because it was a *manufactured* environment where all of the seconds live. After all, it's revealed during the film that a lot of the seconds end up rejecting it as Hudson does. And the man in charge - Will Geer - of the whole thing is still "old", so that certainly explains that the process isn't very good, it's a good way to make a lot of money.

I think any remake of the story would never end it the way the original does... and it's a *great* ending.

 

[John Watson]

If they remade it, it could be called TRADING FACES