Jacob's Ladder Getting a Remake

Mickey Liddell's LD Entertainment is financing a remake of Jacob's Ladder, based on the 1990 thriller/horror film starring Tim Robbins.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jeff Buhler (The Midnight Meat Train) is penning a screenplay and working from an earlier draft written by Jake Wade Wall, who wrote the 2006 remake of When a Stranger Calls. Michael Gaeta and Alison Rosenzweig will produce and are currently looking for a director.

"The producers are looking to make something more akin to an homage and not mimic the original," says the trade. "The plan is to contemporize the story with new situations and characters but still maintain a story that examines issues and poses existential questions."

The original film centered on a Vietnam veteran, Jacob Singer, who after returning from the war experiences flashbacks and hallucinations that continue to haunt him and warp his sense of reality.

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Source : ign[dot]com