The Crazies (2010) - Breck Eisner

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Remake do original de Romero:

EXCL: The Crazies Remake - Not Dead Yet!
Source: ShockTillYouDrop.com
February 7, 2008


Production outfit Penn Station is taking measures to keep The Crazies remake afloat.

An industry source tells us Penn producers Dean Georgaris and Michael Aguilar (Damn Nation) brought Ray Wright on board (presumably pre-strike) to work on the script. Wright's credits include Pulse and this year's Case 39, directed by Christian Alvart and starring Renee Zellweger. It's unclear if the project still resides at Paramount.

The Crazies, an update of George Romero's 1973 homeland viral terror flick, was originally set up as a directing vehicle for Session 9's Brad Anderson. It would reunite him with The Machinist scribe Scott Kosar who penned a draft.

In the original, a small Pennsylvania town and its residents are accidentally exposed to a biological weapon. The side effect: Insanity. As the Army moves in to quarantine the town, a pair of firefighters attempt to evade soldiers, the "crazies" and infection.

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Com Timothy Olyphant e Radha Mitchell já confirmados nos principais papeis:

EXCL: Mitchell Set to Star in The Crazies
Source:ShockTillYouDrop.com
January 12, 2009


Radha Mitchell has signed up to star opposite Timothy Olyphant in Overture Films' remake of The Crazies. Sources close to the casting process confirmed to ShockTillYouDrop.com over the weekend that she is officially on board.

We presume she'll be playing the wife of Olyphant's sheriff character who is faced with a biological weapon that has infected the town's water supply thus making the residents violently loopy. The Australian actress has delicately balanced her career with a steady diet of genre material. In 2000, she faced nocturnal beasts in Pitch Black and followed that with Visitors, Silent Hill and Greg McLean's Rogue.

The Crazies, based on the George Romero film of the same name, is directed by Breck Eisner and is due in theaters September 25th.

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David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) is sheriff of Ogden Marsh, a picture-perfect American town with happy, law-abiding citizens. But one night, one of them comes to a school baseball game with a loaded shotgun, ready to kill. Another man burns down his own house…after locking his wife and young son in a closet inside. Within days, the town has transformed into a sickening asylum; people who days ago lived quiet, unremarkable lives have now become depraved, blood-thirsty killers, hiding in the darkness with guns and knives. Sheriff Dutton tries to make sense of what's happening as the horrific, nonsensical violence escalates. Something is infecting the citizens of Ogden Marsh... with insanity. Now complete anarchy reigns as one by one the townsfolk succumb to an unknown toxin and turn sadistically violent. In an effort to keep the madness contained, the government uses deadly force to close off all access and won't let anyone in or out – even those uninfected. The few still sane find themselves trapped: Sheriff Dutton; his pregnant wife, Judy (Radha Mitchell); Becca (Danielle Panabaker), an assistant at the medical center; and Russell (Joe Anderson), Dutton's deputy and right-hand man. Forced to band together, an ordinary night becomes a horrifying struggle for survival as they do their best to get out of town alive.

Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/thecrazies/

Site oficial: http://www.thecrazies-movie.com/

[Borreicho]

Ora aqui está um filme que quero ver. Ainda para mais, até está a ter uma boa recepção por parte da crítica, tendo um 83% no Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1205380-crazies/

[Grande Guru]

Nada de novo, nem é seca nem é grande coisa, dá para entreter, mas é "igual" a mta coisa já feita dentro do género.