Universal remains intent on developing a remake of David Cronenberg's Videodrome, a project first rumored in 2009 but dismissed as hallucinatory visions that eventually caused a tumor. But like the TV series at the center of Cronenberg's dystopian film, the demand for programming that titillates without bothering to create new plots or characters has pushed the studio to keep at the script by Transformers: Dark Of The Moon screenwriter Ehren Kruger, with Universal now bringing in commercials director Adam Berg for the thematically appropriate extra sheen of empty artifice.