Just under 30 years after the original black & white film was released, David Cronenberg directed one of the greatest horror remakes of all time, unleashing his practical effects-heavy version of The Fly in 1986. Thirty years after Cronenberg’s masterful remake, another is on the way.
Deadline is reporting tonight that J.D. Dillard (Blumhouse’s Sleight) is in negotiations to direct a second remake of The Fly for Fox. He would also co-write the script with Alex Theurer.
No details are available, but we can assume the story will again center on a man who begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after an experiment goes horribly wrong.
This isn’t the first time Fox has attempted to re-animate The Fly. In 2012, David Cronenberg revealed that he pitched a reboot they were interested in, but that never came to fruition.
More as we learn it.
