Piranha... In 3-D!!

The story goes that when exploitation producer extraordinaire Roger Corman brought future Gremlins director Joe Dante the script for Jaws knockoff Piranha, Dante was horrified. The script that he'd been promised was "ready to shoot" was in fact unfilmably awful. For instance, the writer couldn't come up with a good reason for anyone to go back into the water after it was discovered to be infested with flesh-eating superfish, so he wrote a maneating bear into the script that would chase the unlucky victims into the water. Dante had no choice but to ask a friend to rewrite it—and so Piranha became the first writing credit for Oscar nominee John Sayles, king of the indies.

Wait, what was I talking about again. Oh yeah! There's gonna be a REMAKE of Piranha! This time it's gonna be by the director of Haute Tension, the slasher flick that had horror buffs going gaga even though the plot was basically stolen from The Three by Donald Kaufman. (Please tell me you get that reference, speaking of unfilmable scripts.) And it's gonna be in 3-D.

Okay, piranhas? Swarming all around me and tearing at my flesh? In 3-D? I'm actually covering my eyes already. Two for Piranha, please.

Aja's Piranha Swimming Our Way in 3-D! [ShockTillYouDrop.com]
[via: Ain't It Cool]