Adam Berg Set To Helm A Remake Of Cronenberg’s ‘Videodrome’

It appears that nothing is safe from the remake and reboot process these days. Deadline reports that Adam Berg, who had his name once attached to the Deadpool movie, is set to make his big debut as the director of an updated version of Videodrome for Universal Pictures. The remake is scripted by Ehren Kruger (Transformers: Dark Of The Moon) and will be produced by Daniel Bobker (Dream House).

The original film, which was released in 1983 and starring James Woods, was set in Toronto during the early 1980s, and follows the CEO of a small cable station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal featuring extreme violence and torture. The layers of deception and mind-control conspiracy unfold as he uncovers the signal’s source and loses touch with reality in a series of increasingly bizarre and violent organic hallucinations. The film has been described as “techno-surrealist”. This news probably won’t be very well received by many fans of the cult classic. This is especially due to Deadline reporting Universal’s plans to “modernize the concept, infusing it with the possibilities of nano-technology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller.” I’m curious what David Cronenberg thinks about it.