Breck Eisner seems to like remakes, He’s nearing the end of post-production on a new version of George A. Romero movie, The Crazies (which is out in February), he was attached to The Creature From The Black Lagoon, until he left and got replaced with Carl Erik Rinsch, and now it appears he may be plotting a new take on David Cronenberg’s 1979 movie, The Brood.
The news came via an LA Times article about Rinsch taking over the Black Lagoon remake, which added that, “Eisner has signed on to a film that’s kind of new but kind of familiar (and scary): The Brood.” Cronenberg’s creepy and very weird movie is about a psychologist who’s invented a new technique that allows people to physically manifest their traumas, which ends up with a women giving birth to mutant children that she can control telepathically. It is extremely strange but very effective, although as with much of Cronenberg’s early work, it’s difficult to imagine someone successfully remaking it.
Cory Goodman is apparently working on the script, although he’s gonna have a tough job to make a new version that doesn’t just seemingly pointlessly bizarre, as it was only the Cronenberg touch that made the first Brood work.