This past November, it was reported that MGM planned to remake 1976's The Town that Dreaded Sundown. The project looks to be moving forward quickly and we have new details, including the fact that Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum have teamed up to produce the film, with a director currently negotiating to join the project.
According to THR, the film could begin shooting as early as this spring with Alfonso Gomez-Rejon directing the movie. Gomez-Rejon directed five episodes of American Horror Story: Asylum, including the finale, and was a second unit director on multiple movies, including Argo. The script was written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Carrie remake) and Ryan Murphy mentioned that it will be a modern day take on the story:
"The movie I was the most freaked out by as a child was this movie that no one ever saw called The Town That Dreaded Sundown... I had just started to babysit my brother, and the ads for that movie would come on and I'd get freaked out. I went to (Blum) with this and MGM was gracious enough to let us do it with them. So we're doing a modern-day version remake, weird meta thing with (it)."
The original movie was directed by Charles B. Pierce and distributed by American International Pictures. Shout! Factory recently announced that the original movie will be part of their upcoming Scream Factory line-up and we should see a Blu-ray/DVD release in early 2013:
"In 1946, the joy and relief over the ending of World War II, and the happiness over the prosperity that followed, was destroyed for the residents of Texarkana by a series of traumatic experiences that many still remember. In the Spring of that year, five townspeople were brutally murdered and three brought to near death by a masked madman who eluded capture by the Texas Rangers and a host of other law enforcement agencies. This true-to-life thriller is a dramatization of those five still unsolved murders which sent local residents into a panic and caused their town to become an armed camp after sundown."
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