According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dimension Films has picked up rights for the U.S. and other English-speaking territories to PIRANHA, the update of Joe Dante’s cult classic to be helmed by Chuck Russell. The director, who remade THE BLOB back in 1988, also scripted the new fish-fear film, based on previous drafts by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger. This time out, the finned killers are not the result of government experimentation, but prehistoric piranha that get released into Arizona’s Lake Havasu (which sits on a volcanic crater) after an earthquake. Marc Canton’s Atmosphere Entertainment (LAND OF THE DEAD) and Marc Toberoff will produce.
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