Christopher Landon, the filmmaker behind recent horror-comedy hits Happy Death Day and Freaky has signed on to write and direct the upcoming Arachnophobia remake for Amblin Partners, THR reports!
"A horror-comedy, Arachnophobia centered on a small town terrorized by a colony of deadly South American spiders accidentally brought into the US. Jeff Daniels starred as a doctor who moves his family from the big city for the calm bucolic small-town life with John Goodman playing a know-it-all exterminator."
Julian Sands, Wesley Strick, Henry Jones, and Harley Jane Kozak also starred.
James Wan (Insidious, Malignant) and Michael Clear (The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It) are serving as producers under their Atomic Monster banner.
Frank Marshall, who made his directorial debut with the 1990 original movie, will executive produce alongside Judson Scott.
Walt Disney Studios subsidiary Hollywood Pictures produced the original Arachnophobia, which grossed $53.21M against a $22M budget.
No stranger to the world of horror, Landon also wrote and directed Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse.
Furthermore, if you'd like to revisit the original film, it's 2012 Blu-ray release is currently only $10 on Amazon!
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