Like the older film starring Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams, the story focuses on a family whose house was built on a sacred site and whose daughter is taken by ghosts. The oeiginal film was produced and co-scripted by Steven Spielberg (based on his story) and directed by Tobe Hooper. It spawned two sequels, "Poltergeist II: The Other Side" in 1986 and "Poltergeist III" in 1988.
Sam Rockwell would play dad to the Bowen family married to wife Rosemarie DeWitt.
Harris is playing Carrigan, a former academic who now hosts a basic cable TV series called Haunted House Cleaners. The Following's Catlett is playing one of the Bowen children.
David Lindsay-Abaire is writing the new script from which "City of Ember" and "Monster House" helmer Gil Kenan will direct.
Sam Raimi Nathan Kahane (Juno) and Roy Lee (The Departed) are producing the redux.
Nathan Kahane will exec produce.
No production schedule has been set yet.
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