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Horror Remake Has An Eye for Zellweger

Renee Zellweger returns to the horror genre in the English remake of the Hong Kong horror flick, THE EYE, reports the trades. One of Zellwegers early feature film roles was as the female lead in THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE NEXT GENERATION, alongside Matthew McConaughey. Paramount is producing the redux via C/W Prods. heads Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner.

The film follows the eerie visions a woman (Zellweger) begins seeing after she regains her sight after a cornea transplant.

Hideo Nakata, the man behind both the Japanese and English RING series, will direct the film from a screenplay by Sebastian Gutierrez and Hillary Seitz. Vertigo Ent.'s Peter Chan, Doug Davison and Roy Lee will exec produce. Paramount's Brad Weston and Marc Evans are shepherding the project.

Filming is set to start at the beginning of 2006.

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