Crazy, crazy news this evening as it was revealed that Scott Derrickson will be helming a remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still for 20th Century Fox, according to Empire Online. Derrickson is best known in the horror community as the director of one of Sony Screen Gems' only good horror films in the past two years, the Exorcism of Emily Rose. In the original 1951 film directed by Robert Wise, an alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.