Spectacular Optical to reopen for business: Videodrome remake in the works
David Cronenberg's mindbending 1983 movie Videodrome is getting a remake and a makeover courtesy of screenwriter Ehren Kruger. Kruger, best known for writing Arlington Road, and the American remake of The Ring and its sequel (and, um, Reindeer Games) will write and co-produce the film for Universal, according to Variety. So will the remake retain Cronenberg's uncompromising, Philip K. Dick-inspired hallucinatory qualities? Maybe!: