Corn Children Return!

In addition to news that they’ve tapped Patrick Lussier to write & direct the next “Halloween”, Variety says The Weinstein Company have hired Ehren Kruger (“The Ring Two”) to pen a remake of “Children of the Corn”.

In all fairness, it’s not necessarily a remake… since it was a short-story by Stephen King since it was ever a movie.

The yarn tells the story of a boy preacher who persuades the children in a Nebraska town to kill all the adults.

“Corn” was previously made into a feature in 1984 by New World Pictures.

“We felt the New World film was a missed opportunity,” said Bob Weinstein. “If you read the short story, it’s got such a strong feeling to it and there’s this religious overtone to it as well. Ehren wants to hit it hard. It’s popular in Hollywood to say you re-envisioning a project but a lot of the time they’re just carbon copying the original. We are bringing something new to the story.”

I’ll see it when I believe it… the Weinstein’s have been talking about remaking “Corn” for years (I believe Joe Harris of “The Tripper” fame was even attached to write.. or direct.. or both… at one stage), and it hasn’t got much further than a shot-put would down a sewer.