Atmosphere Entertainment and Relativity Media have announced that the first picture to go into production for their joint venture genre label Chiller Films will be a remake of Joe Dante's 1978 horror hit "Piranha" reports Screen Daily.
Chuck Russell ("The Scorpion King," "Nightmare On Elm Street 3"), is writing the screenplay about a prehistoric strain of fish that terrorises college students at Lake Havasu in Arizona.
"We felt that Piranha is the perfect genre picture for us to do," Atmoshpere chief Mark Canton said in a statement. "It's a classic horror thriller with high-end talent attached and with all of the ingredients to deliver a plethora of scares."
I first had the idea to remake Piranha about three years ago, right before the current horror film resurgence," IPW chairman Marc Toberoff added. "That one word tells a story evoking universal fear. I've always felt that death by piranha was much more horrifying than death by shark."
Chiller Films was set up earlier this year and aims to produce several genre pictures a year capped at $20m each.
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