Merrick here...


Timothy Olyphant, so promising in DEADWOOD and so devoid of gravity in everything else, has signed on to play the lead in a remake of George Romero's THE CRAZIES (a project previously covered HERE).

The story revolves around the inhabitants of a small Kansas town who are beset by death and insanity after a plane crash lets loose a secret biological weapon into the water supply. Olyphant is playing the town's sheriff.

...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.

Breck Eisner (SAHARA) is directing.