The producers of American Horror Story and Paranormal Activity are teaming up for MGM's remake of the 1976 cult classic The Town That Dreaded Sundown.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, AHS's Ryan Murphy and Blumhouse Productions' Jason Blum will produce the remake with Alfonso Gomez-Rejon being lined up to direct. Playwright-screenwriter Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (the upcoming Carrie remake) will pen the script.
"MGM is aiming to produce the remake on a low budget and keep the original's cinema verite style. The remake is said to have horror-movie tones and elements of a procedural in the vein of David Fincher’s Zodiac," claims THR.
Filming is slated to begin this spring.
The original Town That Dreaded Sundown, directed by and co-starring Charles B. Pierce, was a docudrama that recounted the actual case of a hooded mass murderer dubbed The Phantom Killer. He terrorized the communities of Texarkana in the spring of 1946 in a crime wave known as the Texarkana Moonlight Murders. He was never caught, although criminal Youell Swinney was long the leading suspect.
The movie starred western staple Ben Johnson as the lawman trying to catch the killer and Gilligan's Island's Dawn Wells as a murder victim.
Source : ign[dot]com
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