Merrick here...


Breck Eisner, who brought us the troubled Clive Cussler adaptation SAHARA not too long ago (and is also heading-up a CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON remake) has set his sights on George A. Romero's 1973 film THE CRAZIES.

"It's madness unleashed by human error!" This also works as a very fine description of Hollywood.

In Eisner's version of the movie--about the military trying to contain a virus that causes insanity as it spreads through a small Pennsylvania town--the military will exist more in the background, he said. "They're responsible," he said. "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]."

Eisner said his film will be told through the eyes of a local sheriff and that the "crazies" of the title won't be zombies.

...says THIS ARTICLE at SciFi.com.

A while back, Eisner directed a pilot called THOUGHTCRIMES which was little seen, never picked-up for series, but surprisingly interesting. It sometimes makes the rounds on the HD Channels (probably Universal HD). If you ever get a chance to see it...