Crazies Director To Take On The Brood?

Published on December 16, 2009 by Martyn Conterio · View Comments

the-crazies-poster Breck Eisner loves remaking other directors work. He’s finished on George A. Romero’s re-dreaming (come on, it’s re-”something”, these days) of The Crazies and now, according to the L.A. Times, he’s seeking a re-birthing of David Cronenberg’s The Brood.

It has been widely reported Eisner was attached to The Creature From The Black Lagoon (yes, another remake), but now it appears he’s been tempted by a Cronenberg masterpiece. The Brood is a highly disturbing film about a “psychoplasmics” – an imaginary form of psychotherapy (thank God) in which patients of Oliver Reed’s doctor manifest their traumas. This leads Samantha Eggar to produce some telepathic monsters (it’s not a nice film).

It is very hard to imagine how Breck Eisner can adapt a genre of filmmaking so unique to its creator. “Body horror” is so specific to Canadian director David Cronenberg, if another example is made, everybody says: “just like a Cronenberg film.” So will Eisner be paying a pointless homage? However, the idea of psychoplasmics could be taken into a whole new realm of nasty. Whilst it would be surly to judge a movie in pre-production, it shall remain in the file, titled: wait and see. Angelina Jolie would be perfect for this, though!

The new script is Cory Goodman, the man who wrote Priest.