The Weinstein Co.'s Dimension Films has hooked the domestic distribution rights to PIRANHA, a remake of the 1978 cult classic, VARIETY reports. Chuck Russell will direct in spring. Dimension will handle all English-speaking territories.
Set at Arizona's Lake Havasu, a vacation spot becomes a blood bath when a savage school of piranha swims through a crack in a crater formed by a prehistoric eruption at the bottom of the lake.
Russell also wrote the script, based on drafts by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger, as well as the original John Sayles script, which was based on a story by Richard Robertson. Joe Dante directed the original.
Steve Barnett, J. Todd Harris, Vincent Maraval and Chako VanLeeuwen are exec producing.
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