Mason Hotel
Mason Hotel was a 1962 film for which Michael Brookhaven served, uncredited, as supervising producer.
When it was "remade" in 1998, Brookhaven once again served as the uncredited supervising producer. (PROSE: "Brookhaven: A Filmography" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"namedep":"Brookhaven: A Filmography","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"}) Similarly to The Long Coolth of Summer, the pair of movies represented Brookhaven manipulating the timeline for box office prominence. In this instance, Brookhaven sacrificed the reputations of everyone attached to the original 1998 "remake" in order to provide Alfred Hitchcock a finished script for the movie in 1962. (PROSE: "Michael Brookhaven" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"namedep":"Michael Brookhaven","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"})
Behind the scenes
In the real world, Psycho, an acclaimed Alfred Hitchcock slasher film set in the Bates Motel and released in 1960, was remade in 1998. The remake was a commercial and critical failure.
