IONCINEMA.com presents: Crazies (remake), The (2009)

CAST AND CREW

Director

Breck Eisner

The Crazies (remake)

Release Date: 2009 - Wide Release
Distributor: Rogue Pictures (Focus Features)
Film Genre: Horror
Country: United States

The Crazies will update the storyline of the 1972 original, in which inhabitants of a small Pennsylvania town are beset by death and insanity after a plane crash lets loose a secret biological weapon into the water supply.

TRIVIA

The original was released in 1972, four years after Romero's debut with Night of the Living Dead.

MOVIE NEWS ITEMS

2008-02-12
Variety reports that Breck Eisner will direct a Ray Wright script, and Michael Aguilar and Dean Georgaris are producing. Romero will exec produce.

2005-03-11
Variety reports that Paramount has confirmed the hiring of Brad Anderson to direct.

2005-03-05
Comingsoon.net reports that the studio is in talks with Brad Anderson to direct.

2004-06-18
Variety reports that Paramount has hired Scott Kosar to write the remake.

2004-05-17
Variety reports that Paramount Pictures is remaking George Romero's horror-thriller with Michael Aguilar and Dean Georgaris to produce at their Penn Station production company.