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‘The Crazies’ Remake Finally Heading Behind Cameras
It has been about six months since Brad Anderson dropped out of directing The Crazies, only to be replaced by Breck Eisner. Today it was announced that Overture Films (who recently made a pact with Anchor Bay to produce and distribute movies) will bring the remake of the classic 1973 George A. Romero film to the big screen. You can read all about it inside.
Overture Films will produce and distribute “The Crazies,” a remake of the 1973 George Romero pic.
Redo will be directed by Breck Eisner from a script by Ray Wright and Scott Kosar. Michael Aguilar and Dean Georgaris will produce; Romero will serve as executive producer.
Production is set to begin early next year.
“Crazies” revolves around people in a small Kansas town who are beset by a virus that causes insanity and death after a mysterious toxin contaminates the local water supply.
Project was previously set up at Rogue Pictures and Paramount. Overture CEO Chris McGurk and chief operating officer Danny Rosett felt it was a good fit for the company’s expanding slate.
“We’ve been trying to move into horror fare that is clever and smart,” McGurk said.
Overture’s upcoming releases include “Nothing Like the Holidays” on Dec. 12 and the Dustin Hoffman-Emma Thompson starrer “Last Chance Harvey” in late December.
The classic murder-mystery game Clue is headed back to screens both big and small, with Variety reporting this week that Sony is planning potential film and television adaptations.
Variety reports, “Hasbro Entertainment has closed a deal with Sony‘s TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for the film and TV rights for the beloved board game.”
“Sony is the perfect partner to adapt a property as culturally impactful and mystery-defining as ‘Clue,’” said Hasbro’s Zev Foreman and Gabriel Marano. “Nicole Brown, Katherine Pope, and their teams are tremendous creative collaborators and ideal partners to help us figure out after 75 years if it was Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick.”
Clue was created way back in 1943 by Anthony E. Pratt, and the board game was of course notably turned into a feature film starring Tim Curry in 1985 and a mini-series in 2011.
Ryan Reynolds had more recently been attached to star in a remake for 20th Century Studios, while Fox Entertainment had been developing an animated series a few years back.
You can learn all about the making of the original Clue film in Who Done It: The Clue Documentary, which is now streaming on the Bloody Disgusting-powered SCREAMBOX!
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