More ‘Pillow Talk’?

After a lengthy absence from American filmmaking--his last picture here was the 1973 musical remake of “Lost Horizon”--producer Ross Hunter (“Magnificent Obsession,” “Imitation of Life”) hopes to make a comeback with a “sequel of sorts” to the 1959 Rock Hudson-Doris Day comedy, “Pillow Talk.”

“It’s going to be I hope a high-style comedy,” says Hunter, now 69, who has been working in Europe in recent years. He’s now at work on the script with a writer he won’t identify. “It’s going to be exciting for the public--we’re going to do a picture about beautiful people for a change.”

Meanwhile, Hunter is chipping away at his biography, “More Than Pillow Talk,” which he insists will not be a “kiss and tell” book.

Known for his glossy production values, Hunter rejects the notion that he’s become a Hollywood anachronism.

“My type of movies are definitely coming back,” he insists. “They gave audiences an opportunity to escape and live vicariously by what they saw on screen. Wherever I go, that’s all I hear: ‘When are you coming back? We miss your kind of movies.’

“I think it’s time we brought beauty and entertainment back to the screen.”