En nytolkning av H.P. Lovecrafts novell Herbert West: Reanimator är på gång, rapporterar Deadline. Adam Simon (The Haunting in Connecticut, Salem) och Tim Metcalfe (The Haunting in Connecticut, Kalifornia) ligger bakom manuset medan Michael Grossman (The Originals, Pretty Little Liars) regisserar.
Filmens synopsis är som följer:
"As a child, Herbert West watches his father Peter reanimate his dead mother Judith in a secret basement lab — only for Judith to mortally wound Peter and nearly kill Herbert before Peter shoots her. The trauma leaves its mark on Herbert, but so does one final image: his mother's finger, twitching after death. Thirty years later, Herbert West is a brilliant, secretive surgeon still chasing his father's obsession. Pathologist Kate Locke arrives in town and is drawn into his orbit — first through a spark at a hospital fundraiser, then through his secret lab, where he reveals a serum capable of reanimating severed tissue. Kate, hiding a dark past of her own, is thrilled rather than horrified, and moves into West's mansion to work alongside him. Their early experiments on a cadaver succeed only briefly. West concludes that dead tissue is the problem — they need something fresher".
Stuart Gordon gjorde 1985 sin egen tolkning av novellen med Jeffrey Combs i huvudrollen, en roll han repriserade två gånger i och med Bride of Re-Animator (1990) och Beyond Re-Animator (2003). Re-Animator är i skräckfilmssvängen en riktig klassiker, och det återstår att se om ovanstående nytolkning kommer vara av samma kaliber.
Inspelning sker i Alton, Illinois, i skrivande stund.