A Steven for a Stephen! Sommers out, Spielberg in on the WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE remake!

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here... Now before this story starts getting misinterpreted as Steven Spielberg DIRECTING the sci-fi remake, the Variety story says that Spielberg is only producing the flick for Paramount. I assume that Paramount wants him to direct a franchise sequel involving a man with a whip a little bit more than they want him directing this film, but since the last sci-fi remake he did has grossed... what? $600,000,000 world-wide? Well, I guess I may be wrong in that assumption.

But still, the story said he has just taken over as Producer since Stephen Sommers left the project in order to do a flick called A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM about a museum full of ancient critters that come to life and wreck havoc upon a big city. Spielberg's a great creative mind to have on a project, so this is nothing but good news for this movie.

Oh, and if you haven't seen the original '50s WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, you have to go pick it up. It's a great flick, one that I originally saw here in Austin at the Paramount Theater (that grand old movie palace) when they double-featured it with the George Pal WAR OF THE WORLDS, strangely enough. I actually preferred WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, although I loved them both. The story is so dark... a planet is on a crash course with earth... scientists have just enough time to build a small craft to keep humanity alive after the earth is destroyed. But who gets to go? Pretty fucked up when you think about it. I'm looking forward to who lands in the director's chair. Any thoughts?