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Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse director
Christopher Landon has been hitting his stride lately. From his Happy Death Day movies to Freaky
and the upcoming family comedy We Have a Ghost, the director has
climbed the horror-comedy ranks rather rapidly.
Naturally, if anyone was going to remake Frank Marshall’s 1990 spider
infestation thriller Arachnophobia, it was Landon. Pairing up with Amblin Entertainment who
produced the original and James Wan’s production company Atomic Monster, Landon
will write and direct the film with Frank Marshall serving as executive producer
on the project.
Initially
this sort of thing you’d expect to land in the hands of Alexandre Aja who
remade everything from the edgy The Hills Have Eyes to the frankly
goofball Piranha remake, though word has it he’s developing a sequel to
his alligator thriller Crawl.
Craig Gillespie also would’ve been a solid choice considering his horror
comedy remake Fright Night, another renowned horror classic from the
1980s. That said, we should have much to
look forward to with whatever they’re cooking up with an Arachnophobia remake
provided it retains some of the original film’s reliance on practical effects
instead of quickly dated CG manifestations.
Stay tuned for further details as they develop!
--Andrew Kotwicki
