Breck Eisner, director of next February’s unnecessary but decent-looking remake of George A. Romero’s The Crazies, has signed on to direct a remake of David Cronenberg’s 1978 horror flick, The Brood. Eisner also directed the decent 2004 action flick Sahara.
While earlier attempts to remake Cronenberg have fallen apart (Videodrome), perhaps due in part to a potential filmmaker’s descent into madness, this one looks ready to go. Obviously, until Eisner’s Crazies remake drops later this winter, we won’t really know what to expect from him with a horror film; it may be a touch early to outright call this an awful idea. I’m going to do exactly that, right now, anyway. Remaking Romero isn’t the best idea in the world, but Cronenberg? A pox on your house, Breck Eisner.
Eisner’s Crazies remake arrives at a theater near you Feb. 26th, 2010 featuring enough Timothy Olyphant for me to catch it at my local dollar theater sometime in April.
