So according to Variety, some dicklicker is doing a remake of George Romero’s 1973 film The Crazies. In related news, George Romero has been remaking Night of the Living Dead since 1968.
Redo will be directed by Breck Eisner [Michael Eisner's son, shocking -Ed.] ; Romero will serve as executive producer.
“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. 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.
It’s times like these I wish my site had a giant buzzer sound.
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Clever and smart. Viddy that, droogs.
Vance is funnier than usual today. Are you hungover? You are, aren’t you?
I love Eib, but enough with the fucking Zombies already.
Lanky, you may not have that buzzer sound, but The Mighty Feklahr would be glad to strike the ba’Sin for you any time!
BONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I haven’t seen a premise that flimsy since U.S. Cabinet meetings in February 2003.
whackety shmackety doooo
Well at least it’s true to life… The last recorded time of an attack of the “Crazies”, they totally wore gas masks, and cool space suits…. oh yeah and threw feces and ate crayons… I’m sure that’s part of it too….
Well this is exactly the kind of shit you should expect when you name your kid after a dandruff shampoo.
A gong sound would be nice. Michael Eisner’s son eh? Fancy having a media mogul for a father and following him into that line of work. I manually masturbate farm animals, although my parents were teachers.
Two Words: Ugh….. just Ugh.
This one’s just for Nommy…
“Crazies” revolves around people in a small Kansas town who are beset by a virus that causes insanity, death, and the inability to properly machine a thread specification after a mysterious toxin contaminates the local water supply.
Wait, so he’s remaking Erin Brockovich?
I’ve always wanted to do a remake of “The Mack” with myself as in the part of Goldie and Chris Tucker as Slim.
We used to call our neighbors “The Crazies”. They had TWO newspaper subscriptions! They also ate three of the neighborhood children, but who needs two newspapers everyday? CRAZY PEOPLE, that’s who.
More like clever and fart.
What is it, horkity sporkity doo?
Yeah, well, in Revelations it said that the great whore who sat on many water would fly over Babylon with the wings of the eagle and wreak great havoc and disorder. I don’t know what this says to you, stoney, but to me, it says that the metric system is a whore who’s attempting to cause disorder here in the heartland of the great US of A. But really, in the end I blame the RAND Corporation for this. It’s not my fault.
Stoney: maybe they were double-lining the kids’ cages?
Nommy – I blame the Zombies at Tessendorf.
Peet – I hadn’t thought of that possibility.
Really, I blame ISO 9000. It’s cleary the ISO 9000 standard to not conduct inspections of parts for quality control purposes. For instance, if I didn’t conform to ISO 9000 in this here comment, I could change my typo up there, but I can’t. It’s policy.
“We’ve been trying to move into horror fare that is clever and smart,” McGurk said.
ZOMBIE VALEDICTORIAN – He’ll eat your brains.
Is this new film based on The Breathing Dead book by A M Esmonde which is dedicated to Romero?