James Wan to Produce Arachnophobia Reboot for Amblin

Arachnophobia

James Wan is lend his talents as a producer to yet another horror reboot , this time in the flesh ofArachnophobia . The director ofSaw , Insidious , andThe Conjuringhas been taking a break from the repugnance genre by direct DC’sAquamanmovie for the past dyad years . However , over that same menstruation of time , Wan has attached himself as a manufacturer to several in - ontogeny horror projection , among them a big screen take on Stephen King’sThe Tommyknockers , aResident Evilmovie ( or TV show ) reboot , and aSwamp ThingTV series for DC ’s streaming service .

Wan has an optic on directingTommyknockers , but is planning to only produce theArachnophobiareboot . Frank Marshall directed the original 1990 horror / clowning , which orb around a freshly - discovered type of Venezuelan spider that is transported to a small town in California and begin multiply , giving raise to a new species of elephantine killer spiders . Jeff Daniels and John Goodman costarred in the picture show , at a time when both actors were on the verge of becoming much bigger gens .

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Deadlineis report that Wan ’s Atomic Monster and Amblin ( which was cofounded by Marshall ) are in the early stages of remakingArachnophobiaand will set a writer for the film next . Arachnophobiais one of a handful of horror - flavored offer that Amblin has in the pipeline now , along with Eli Roth’sThe House with a Clock in its Wallsadaptation and Floria Sigismondi’sTurn of the Screwre - imaginingThe Turning .

The originalArachnophobiawas a modest fiscal success in dramaturgy that go on to earn a cult follow on the home video market over the years that followed . It strike the vista in what ended up being a remarkable twelvemonth for offbeat horror / comedy menu , what withGremlins 2 : The New BatchandTremorsbeing let go of over that same twelve - calendar month period . TheGremlinsproperty is also in the process of getting a rebootat the moment , after several failed endeavor to get aGremlins 3off the ground . Meanwhile , Tremorsfans are still reeling from Syfy ’s decisiveness to hap onthe cowcatcher for a subsequence television seriesled by the original moving-picture show ’s wizard , Kevin Bacon , back in April .

With Amblin and Wan producing , theArachnophobiareboot has a undecomposed jibe at moving past other development and into production more quickly than other recent ' XC horror and repugnance / comedy revivals . Further , as the horror literary genre continues to prosper and branch out , there ’s sure elbow room for a film that combines scares and humor the wayArachnophobiadoes to thrive . The succeeder of last yr ’s Blumhouse filmsGet OutandHappy Death Dayalone is cogent evidence enough that audiences still enjoy express joy and screaming at once , and in respectable turn .