There’s just something sweet about remaking a horrible, horrible, horrible B movie especially if said flick is the one Michael Caine calls his worst film ever and disowns it. Which is why the proposed remake of The Swarm would be incredibly awesome.
Of course, this could go no where really fast. Commercial director Ash Bolland is attached to direct and they haven’t even hired a writer for this. Yep, there isn’t even a script for this project but its moving right ahead. And why should they need a writer? This kind of movie just writes itself. You got bees. You got more bees. And then they attack. Act I, II, and III right there.
And also there needs to be some sort of benchmark for a film to receive “cult” status. After all, you could call this film a “cult” classic even though I have never heard of it, but then again, that might just mean its more “cult” than I thought. Of course, I believed I had a fairly good grasp on what defines “cult” status but still there should be a unit of measurement for something like this. Perhaps you can take the year it was made, divide it by the amount of money it made domestically, factor in its cast, multiply it by the amount of obscurity over star power of its stars and…wow this got way too math heavy for me. I didn’t major in film to talk about multiplication.
No word on whether or not producers Roy Lee and Steven Schneider will draw influence from the 1978 film or the 1975 novel by Arthur Herzog, but given the negative response to the film, I think they should stick to the book.
Source: The Wrap
