The Director Of SAHARA Is Going To Remake Romero's CRAZIES!!

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...