Jesse Walker looks back at The Stepford Wives, 40 years after the novel appears. It's a thoughtful, clever look at the book, the movie, and the times.
Then there were a bunch of TV sequels:
The story that resulted had enough staying power to spawn an entire franchise, with the Stepford Wives movie inspiring three made-for-TV follow-ups. Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980) changed the scenario somewhat: The town’s women are drugged and brainwashed rather than replaced by robots. The story ends with two liberated women seizing the means of mind control and inducing a Stepford riot. In The Stepford Children (1987) the conspiracy is back to using androids, and with The Stepford Husbands (1996) we get the inevitable table turning.
Frank Oz being in the remake follows from the original in a way - the mastermind of the scheme used to work at Disney.
Posted by: Steven Kaye | October 21, 2012 at 12:51
Puppets all the way down!
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | October 22, 2012 at 22:12