IONCINEMA.com presents: Piranha 3-D (2009)

CAST AND CREW

Director

Alexandre Aja

Piranha 3-D

Release Date: Jul 24, 2009 - Wide Release
Distributor: Dimension Films (The Weinstein Co.)
Film Genre: Horror
Country: United States

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Written by Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger with a rewrite by Aja, in the original 1978 film, a particularly nasty prehistoric strain of the flesh-eating fish is unleashed in Arizona's Lake Havasu just as college kids come to party there. The film is set at Arizona's Lake Havasu, a vacation hotspot that turns into an all-you-can-eat buffet when a phalanx of fish swim through a crack in a crater formed by a prehistoric eruption at the bottom of the lake.

TRIVIA

Russell wrote the script, using elements of drafts by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger, as well as the original John Sayles script that Joe Dante directed the first time around. That came from a story by Richard Robertson.

MOVIE NEWS ITEMS

2006-01-12
Variety reports the Weinstein Company's Dimension Films will remake the picture. Canton and Toberoff will produce while Steve Barnett, J. Todd Harris, Vincent Maraval and Chako VanLeeuwen will executive produce.

2005-10-27
Variety reports that French film company Wild Bunch will remake the film with a 20 million dollar budget. Produced by Chiller Films, this will shoot in the U.S. in March or April. The new version is written by Eraser and Chuck Russell.