14 DAY TRIAL // A “Poltergeist” remake has been in the works for at least a couple of years, with MGM now speeding things up to get it out as soon as possible. David Lindsay-Abaire is writing the script, with Sam Raimi credited as producer.
Earlier on, word online had it that Raimi could even be tempted to direct the remake, which he denied.
As it turns out, he’s directing it but, for some reason, did not want people to know it.
“Lindsay-Abaire told me that Raimi was directing it. I had never heard of the possibility before that,” Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter writes on his Twitter, after an interview with the writer.
Before that, he’d accidentally spilled the beans in a THR piece, so he needed to set the record straight.
“His next project is equally unconventional: He’s penning the script for a remake of Poltergeist, to be directed by Sam Raimi, who he reveals was originally supposed to direct the big-screen adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Rabbit Hole before a scheduling conflict got in the way,” Feinberg wrote.
So that seems about it. Either Lindsay-Abaire is writing a script for a movie he doesn’t know who will direct (and he’s just spreading rumors for fun) or this is really happening, Sam Raimi will direct “Poltergeist.”
Hyped yet?