The Abominable Snowman: The Movie
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 11th, 2006
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In a new May 11, 2006, interview in Australia’s Moviehole, super producer Ilya Salkind notes that among his current projects is "a new film based on the mythic The Abominable Snowman."
This is important to hear as it gives fresh news, the first since 2003, that The Abominable Snowman is still going to be made.
In a press release on April 28, 2003, Emmett/Furla Films and Ilya Salkind (Superman) announced that they have joined forces to develop and produce a feature film entitled The Abominable Snowman. Gale Anne Hurd (The Hulk) was also in negotiations to produce alongside Salkind, Emmett and Furla.
The Abominable Snowman is a time tested and thought provoking title that Ilya Salkind has had a passion for since 1993.
In 2003, Ilya Salkind said: "Ten years ago I envisioned The Abominable Snowman to follow in the blockbuster franchise tradition of Superman and The Three Musketeers. Now, with today’s seemingly unlimited technologies in filmmaking, the time is right.
Reportedly, Salkind’s The Abominable Snowman is based on the old Hammer Studio’s film The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
yay maybe finally a decent movie….i have been so far dissapointed with most cryptid movies, excluding harry and the hendersons of course, that i have almost given up watching them… hopefully this one will live up to the challange.
Abominable!
It will probably be another violent monster movie. Old Abominable will have big long abominable fangs and tear some guys to shreds with his abominable claws. Ho hum.
Loren,
Why did you say in your posts on the mailing lists that this could “rock the cryptozoological world?” Granted, you can sruge that no one has made a good cryptozoological film for decades, and a good one would be welcome. But it’s likely to be primarily a thriller, and I don’t see why it would have much impact on serious cryptozoology.
Matt Bille
Agreed any new cinematic release should be accurate, realistic…perhaps even heart warming and wholesome….in it’s portrayal of the “big folks”…not just another creature feature….but then…it’s only a movie…JMHO
seeing is believing…
ole bub and the dawgs
Traditionally, there has been more discoveries, more research-based funding, and more insights on cryptids when major studio projects concurrently move in the direction of serious treatments on these subjects. The involvement of Salkind does not translate into “thriller” or grade-B movie to me and to others I know in the business.
I have not found this motion picture and the others I am aware of that I cannot talk about yet because of nondisclosure agreements are going to be melodramas. They appear to NOT be thrillers, but grounded biopix and dramas.
This movie along with other “serious” studio productions involving Yeti tell me that it is getting to be “steam engine” time, a precursor period of a shift occurring. I see a specific trend developing, and that’s why I have shared it in this fashion.
Loren,
I hope you’re right and we see some good films with cryptozoological themes. What you have heard so far is promising, although I have a little shudder whan anyone from the incredibly bad “Hulk” film is mentioned. It will be more interesting when we know the writer and director for the film.
Regards,
Matt
Crypto cinema is go! 🙂
I moved to Los Angeles back in 2001 to pursue career screenwriting. Several months back I drafted a synopsis for an original feature length Sasquatch movie based more on concept than genre expectation. While it can certainly be argued that there is a place for exploitative material, I’ve long hoped that someone would present an intelligent Bigfoot story that doesn’t need to rely on blood, breasts and a rampaging monster to be successful. A perfect example of the right way to go about it is Hammer Films’ ‘Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas’. The deeper themes of the darkness within man juxtaposed against the unknown something that lurks on the perhipheral is a fascinating concept, and ‘Himalayas’ is a brilliant example of how effective low-key scares and atmosphere can carry a story.
In my as-yet untitled screenplay, I made an effort to explore similar themes, while at the same time creating characters and situations that (hopefully) echo the reality of the Squatch phenomenon, both positive and negative. It’s a thoughtful, intelligent piece that understands and respects that there will always be more questions than answers. Yes, there are a couple sequences where certain individuals meet unpleasant deaths, but their actions decided their fate. In the same respect, the climactic resolution to the story underscores humankind’s need to accept that we are NOT the center of the universe, and that there are larger truths out there that we have yet to embrace. With all the crypto stuff that’s been seeping into the mainstream lately, I’m hoping I can connect with a respectable producer regarding the screenplay.
In the meantime, here’s hoping that Hollywood doesn’t screw it up for the rest of us. 😀
Hey does anyone know when The new movie “Abominable” is coming out?
You know, maybe it’s the crypto-catfight stuff inspiring me, but I would like to see a Christopher Guest type treatment of the Bigfoot Research scene… something “mockumentary” style that pokes fun at all the human drama involved with the quest for hairy hominids (with a “classic” closing scene of Bigfoot wandering by in the background while the field researchers are busy waxing poetic about what they do.)
hi craig loren and everyone thats great they are doing another abominable snowman movie im sure there will other sequels & prequels to abominable snowman or sasquatch movies in near future either on dvd or in theatres as long as they as are not violent. i would like to see a sequel to the classic creature from black lake. only time will tell. bill please keep me posted ok. 🙂
I hope it is a good film. And anything has GOT to be better than the Hulk film from a couple years ago. And Loren you are right whenever something gets in the mainstream the more open everyone is to look and maybe find an unknown crypto.
the only movie I have seen about bigfoots is the Sasquatch one (is called The Untold). I have heard of this one before. I also heard there would be a scifi movie called “Abominable” on the 20th of May.
Very cool!!