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Overture Pushes 'The Crazies' Remake to 2010
Thursday, April 23, 2009


By: MrDisgusting
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Overture FIlms just contacted Bloody-Disgusting to let us know that they have shifted their remake of The Crazies (set visit) from its planned September 25th date all the way to February 26, 2010. A reinvention loosely based upon the George Romero classic of the same name, The Crazies is about the inhabitants of a small Iowa town suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply. Directed by Breck Eisner, the film stars Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Reegan, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson and Justin Welborn. Check out a long synopsis below.

Imagine living in a small town where everything is safe and happy…until suddenly it isn’t. Imagine your friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane. In a terrifying tale of the “American Dream” gone horribly wrong, four friends find themselves trapped in their hometown in The Crazies, a reinvention of the George Romero classic directed by Breck Eisner from a screenplay by Ray Wright (Pulse, Case 39) and Scott Kosar (The Amityville Horror, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).

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.

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djblack1313
7:32pm, April 23, 2009

well this sucks! i am SO looking forward to this movie. i hope this doesn't mean the movie is turning out sucky.


nikolaibossman
8:26pm, April 23, 2009

I was really looking forward to this one, oh well maybe I'll get to see it around the same time as F13 Part 2 (please!!!)


mr_halloween24_7
8:31pm, April 23, 2009

this movie has turd written all over it. The old one was good for its time, but a new one is just going to be familiar ground. fuck this movie.


leatherfacekillserinfan1
9:08pm, April 23, 2009

awwwww i was really looking forward to this


edrew_7
11:46pm, April 23, 2009

When this movie comes out, it will be great. Too bad it's been postponed. Well, only 10 months to go. P.S. Thanks for the more in-depth plots details!


milkieboy
1:09am, April 24, 2009

Oh well...


ReplicA
11:54am, April 24, 2009

Yeah, that kinda sucks. This seems to be one of those movies that, like the hills have eyes, had a decent premise, but the movie itself could use some dusting off. I'm looking forward to it.


JSPOOLE
12:05pm, April 24, 2009

The original movie was, in my opinion, crap. Love GAR'S zombie movies, but hate pretty much everything else he has done. This has a good premise and is looking promising so far, looking forward to it.


bonesred
12:01pm, April 29, 2009

when they push stuff back it only means they have something better to release. watch it end up direct to dvd.


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