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Saw II Helmer to Remake Scanners

By Rick DeMott | Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 12:00am
In Films, Visual Effects, Films, Visual Effects | Headline News | Geographic Region: All

Dimension Films has inked a deal with SAW II helmer Darren Lynn Bousman to direct a remake of David Cronenberg's 1981 cult classic SCANNERS, reports VARIETY. BLADE and BATMAN BEGINS writer David Goyer is writing the screenplay.

The original film had a scientist infiltrating a renegade group of telepathics called scanners, who are using their abilities as deadly weapons.

Dimension co-chairman Bob Weinstein is overseeing the project and production is set to begin in early 2008.


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