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Warning: Major spoilers for The Wages of Fear (2024) below!

The Wages of Fear 2024 stars Franck Gastambide, not Vin Diesel, even if the resemblance between the stars is uncanny! Netflix's remake feels like a bland mix of Fast and Furious and Call of Duty. The 2024 remake of the classic original could have used Vin Diesel's star power.

Netflix's remake of The Wages of Fear sure looks like it stars Vin Diesel, so where is the confusion coming from? The original Wages of Fear is a nerve-shredding black-and-white thriller from 1953. This Henri-Georges Clouzot-helmed adventure sees a group of men hired to drive trucks filled with unstable nitroglycerine over dangerous terrority to extinguish a blazing oil fire. The movie is considered a classic now, with Christopher Nolan citing The Wages of Fear's focus on "pure suspense" as an inspiration for his 2017 war epic Dunkirk (via Premiere).

The film has been...

With a rising career like few other directors, Ben Wheatley has given us one of the best horror thrillers of the decade thus far (Kill List), a love story like no other (Sightseers), a trippy black-and-white Civil War drama (A Field in England), a flat-out masterpiece (High-Rise), and his latest film, the star-studded, Martin Scorsese-produced Free Fire was recently picked up by Alchemy for a 2016 release. For a new project, he’s now set to remake a classic — one which has already been remade (twice, technically).

According to Deadline, he’s set to direct and co-write (with frequent collaborator Amy Jump) another remake of The Wages of Fear. First coming to screens by Henri-Georges Clouzot in 1953, the adaptation of Georges Arnaud’s novel follows a group of men who dangerously transport a shipment of nitroglycerine through the jungle for one of the most intense experience one can witness in cinema.

Saddle up, rangers. Stills We Love‘s gonna take a ride out west to Fort Bowie.

You can never go wrong with a little bit of western, especially one like this. Look at it:

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This dad-blasted still says it all, pardner! A perfect tableau of B-western conflict, complete with cowering heroine in the middle of the action. Fort Bowie is one of over 25 programmers cranked out by Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch’s Bel-Air Productions for United Artists in the 1950s. They were all pretty slick considering the low budgets. This one was shot on location in Kanab, Utah and is worth a look when it pops up on the indispensable Starz Westerns Channel. John Ford favorite Ben Johnson, in a rare leading role, takes time out from the suicide mission that cuckolded commander Kent Taylor has sent him on to save Taylor’s...

This elaborate second remake of the French classic Wages of Fear (following Violent Road, a 1958 Howard W. Koch B-picture starring Brian Keith) suffered at the boxoffice from its supernatural-sounding title (especially coming from the director of The Exorcist), which obscured its origins as a nail-biting suspense classic. Two tough, grueling hours that grab you by the throat and won't let go.