As you may recall, it was announced back in 2018 that Roxanne Benjamin (Southbound, Body at Brighton Rock, There’s Something Wrong With the Children) would be scripting a remake of the 1984 horror movie Night of the Comet for Orion Pictures, but it’s been quite some time since we’ve heard a peep about the project. Thankfully, Slash Film provides a fresh update.

“That’s an interesting one. It’s still alive, just not really in the same iteration, but it’s still kicking,” Benjamin tells the site. “It’s gone through a lot of different — everything’s consolidating with everything. The snake is eating itself in our industry right now. So it’s gone through a lot of different hands, I think, throughout the process, but it’s still out there.”

Benjamin further explains, “There’s other stuff that’s going on with it. That movie division, I think, is gone now, or I can’t even remember. I think Orion Pictures, they stopped doing their own features and they were just doing pickups at some point. So their original features division kind of stopped being active. That was a couple years ago. The original script that I wrote was part of that group. So now it’s in that weird limbo where that can never exist because it is in this entity that, I don’t know, it’s a bunch of business affairs stuff.”

Bloody Disgusting spoke with Roxanne Benjamin back in April 2019 about the planned Night of the Comet remake, where she told us that she had completed the script at that time.

Benjamin explained to Bloody Disgusting four years ago, “I love the original, and I love telling stories about girls facing impossible odds, like us against the world kind of stuff. And I think that’s what’s so cool about the first one is that it’s this very real sister relationship where they’re kind of dicks to each other, but really protective of each other at the same time. That’s how siblings go. I love seeing that in a genre setting because I don’t feel like we get those kinds of girl buddy movies that are facing down action and adventure as much. And so that’s the kind of stuff I want to make. That was the core of approach to this.”

The cult original, written and directed by Thom Eberhardt, followed two sisters facing off against cannibal zombies after a comet wipes out most of life on Earth.