THE CRAZIES Remake Shooting This Summer
While George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and Diary of the Dead hit DVD later this month, the Romero nightmare The Crazies is about to be remade, for a 2010 release.
Shooting will begin this summer with director Breck Eisner (Sahara and, yes, he’s the son of Michael). If you’re not familiar with The Crazies, let’s just say the plot is a few decades ahead of its time: 
A virus is spreading throughout a small town, and those who catch it go out-of-control bonkers.
Romero’s 1973 original had a distinct anti-war sentiment, with the U.S. military playing a major role. In an interview with Sci Fi Wire, Eisner explains the changes he plans to make with his version:
The military is a little less heavy-handed, but more dangerous … In a way, the military exists on two levels: as … a column of tanks or a mass of soldiers and then as the individual soldiers. I think the individual soldier is different than the mass, and I want to explore [that].”
Ray Wright (Case 39) is Eisner’s screenwriter on The Crazies, and Romero is credited as a producer. However, according to the story, the granddaddy of zombie films is not involved in the day-to-day development.
If you want to know the direction Eisner might go, look to the film that scared him most as a kid: John Carpenter’s The Thing. Eisner’s next remake: The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Photo credit: Weinstein Company
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