We told you around this time last year about a film titled Re-Animator: Evolution, which was at the time in development with Serge Levin attached to direct. Levin exclusively revealed to us that it was essentially set to be a new adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story “Herbert West–Reanimator,” rather than a remake of the 1985 film.

What’s going on with all that? It looks like the film, hailing from Isle Empire Films, is now in pre-production, though the title has been changed to Herbert West: Reanimator.

In the new adaptation…

“Pursued by the police, an ambitious neuroscientist uses a neutrino impulse to bring his dead wife back to life, unintentionally unlocking within her dormant powers that threaten the existence of everyone he knows.”

As Levin explained to us last year, he’s “making sure that the spirit and the story elements are more loyal to the original written material of H.P. Lovecraft,” making for a film that’ll be “darker, more thought provoking, and definitely more grounded in science than the first adaptation.”

He continued, “Staying more true to the short story, we will have Major Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee, as one of the characters from the original written material. Many other story and character elements that I don’t want to reveal yet…resonate with the H.P. Lovecraft’s original vision.”

Last we heard, Johnathon Schaech, Brad Dourif and Lin Shaye were attached, but we can’t be sure that any of the actors are still currently involved with the project.