George Romeros 'The Crazies' Gets Remake

The Crazies

The CraziesGeorge Romero's horror-thriller The Crazies is going to get a remake, courtesy of Paramount Pictures, according to Variety.

Project will update the storyline of the original, in which inhabitants of a small Pennsylvania town are beset by death and insanity after a plane crash lets loose a secret biological weapon into the water supply.

The original was released in 1972, four years after Romero's debut with Night of the Living Dead.