X - The Man With The X-Ray Eyes.

[Robert]

I recently bought a filmography of Tim Burton. In the back of it, it had a list of unfinished projects. This included X-The Man With The X-Ray Eyes . Does anyone know anything about this?

Incase anyone else is wondering, other projects include...

• Catwoman
  
• Beetlejuice Goes Hawaian
  
• and The Meloncholy Death Of Oyster Boy (Animated, Possibly Stop Motion?)
  

[Al]

I know the original is a quasi-B-movie, that alternates between being laughable and genuinely creepy. A scientist does an experiment on himself and he beings to see through people's clothes, then through their skin and can eventually see molecule by molecule what is going on inside their bodies. He runs away and ends up as a psychic who 'predicts' physical ailments since he can trace the beginnings of cancer and arthritis and the like in his customers.

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Evenually he begins to see past even the molocules and the atoms of the body, and the movie closes with our now thoroughly insane protagonist tearing out his eyes. This was originally followed by the scientist throwing his bloody hands up to the sky and screaming "I CAN STILL SEE!", but the censors demanded it be cut out. It was supposedly restored in later versions, but it wasn't in the video I saw.

As to the remake, I know thescript has been out there for quite a while, and at one point The Man of Two Expressions, Jonathan Frakes, was attached to direct for a Summer 2001 release. Obviously this never happened, and I hadn't heard much since other than that Burton had wanted to do it.

Al
-That's my momma!

[PoolMan]

Well. So glad I read that right after breakfast.