Overview
- Snyder confirmed he is writing and will direct the remake and that John Carpenter is credited as an executive producer.
- He told podcast host Josh Horowitz on Thursday that the film will be set in 1997 as imagined from 1981 and that the inciting conflict begins on July 9, 1981.
- StudioCanal, The Picture Company and Snyder’s Stone Quarry partners are attached as production partners and Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman are set to produce through StudioCanal.
- There is no release date and no official cast yet, though Snyder said he may already have an actor in mind and Jeffrey Dean Morgan has been publicly lobbying for a role.
- The project has been in development since 2007 with many previous directors and versions, so Snyder’s attachment is a notable advance but does not guarantee the film will reach production.