by Britt Hayes

According the The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Business blog, David Cronenberg is working on a reworking of some kind of The Fly. He is set to direct, but there’s no word on if he’ll be writing as well (fingers crossed).

No other details have been released as of yet, but this is a curious development. It’s not often that directors remake their own films. Michael Haneke remade Funny Games for America, but it wasn’t different from his original Austrian version, other than the actors and the language they were speaking.

Since this project is very new, there’s no way to tell what’s up Cronenberg’s sleeve. Will Seth Brundle be in it at all? Will there be Brundlefly, or will he replace Seth Brundle with some other character name….John Jameson? Or Bob Williams? Jamesonfly? Williamsfly? They don’t have the same ring as Brundlefly.

What lucky actor will fill Goldblum’s shoes? Or, as Quint from Aint it Cool speculates, will Cronenberg use Goldblum again? Personally, I think that’d be cool. Not to say that this is him years later, but to just reuse him. It’s ballsy; however, it might feel too regurgitated and familiar. The familiar is always good, but I’d like to see Cronenberg take this to the next level.

All I ask is that the maggot birth scene stay intact. That scene has haunted me since childhood. It’s the source of my fear of maggots. I trust Cronenberg implicitly with this remake, and I’m just thankful it’s him doing it and not Brett Ratner or Uwe Boll, or even worse, Paul W. S. Anderson. Cronenberg’s Fly is such an epic film for so many people. It’s a tragic love story, horrific and sad. Here’s hoping Cronenberg does something exciting with this remake, and let us pray to the gods of cinema that he lays off the CGI.