The remake of 1982’s Poltergeist will be helmed by Gil Kenan, best known for his work on the ’06 family-friendly horror Monster House.
The MGM production will be produced by Sam Raimi, Nathan Kahane, and Roy Lee. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, a self-confessed Poltergeist obsessive, is reportedly still on board to pen the screenplay. “Well, you know there’s not too much I can say,” Lindsay-Abaire told Collider last year. “I will say that I handed in a second draft and people are incredibly excited about it…I will also say that there are very few people who are as obsessed with the original movie as I am, so I would try to write a script that I would want to see as a fan. I will say that.”
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