NBC’s ROSEMARY’S BABY Has A Mommy

NBC will soon embark on a four-hour miniseries adapting Ira Levin's novel, Rosemary's Baby, directed by Agnieszka Holland. The story is probably most famous for Roman Polanski's 1968 film of the same name, though at my house we like to call it "Hey, Let's Watch the Best Horror Film Ever Made Again."

Now the network has its star. According to Deadline, Star Trek and Avatar's Zoe Saldana will play the role of Rosemary, an innocent lady who gets raped by the devil and delivers his child under the watchful eye of gentle, elderly Satanists.

This new version will take place in Paris. NBC executive Quinn Taylor calls it a "reimagined event mini-series," so a whole host of things could be different from the Polanski film. The book isn't all that long, so a four-hour running time indicates some original content. That's good. The more it walks its own path, the less we'll hold it to a classic film's impossible standard. Like that remake of The Shining!