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Friday, September 13, 2013

Kennedi Clements Sees Ghosts In "Poltergeist" Redux

6-year-old Kennedi Clements ("Rogue," "A Family Thanksgiving") will play the key role of Madison in the remake of the 1982 supernatural horror classic "Poltergeist" says Deadline.



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.

Jared Harris is playing Carrigan, a former academic who now hosts a basic cable TV series called Haunted House Cleaners. The Following's Kyle 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.  

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