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Shawn Levy to helm Starman remake

“Night at the Museum” director Shawn Levy is attached to direct and produce Columbia Pictures’ remake of the 1980s sci-fi romance “Starman”.

Arash Amel penned the script based on the original film which was adapted from the 1980s classic “Stand By Me”. The movie “told of an alien who crash lands on Earth and assumes the form of a woman’s dead husband. He forces the woman to take him to a rendezvous site but on the road trip, a romance blossoms, all the while the government is in hot pursuit to capture him, dead or alive” (via THR).

Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen starred in the original which was produced by Michael Douglas. Douglas will also will produce the remake with Levy.

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