A trailer for Tim Burton‘s “Beetlejuice” sequel “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” is on the horizon and there is already news about the filmmaker’s reunion with Warner Bros. on another horror hybrid project. Deadline has learned that Burton has found his next big project and will remake the 1958 film “Attack of The Fifty Foot Woman” for the studio with the help of novelist/screenwriter Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”). As the title alludes to, a woman is exposed to alien technology that leads to her growing to an astonishing fifty feet and wreaking havoc on a city. Burton has an established obsession with these kinds of schlock movies and previously worked with the studio on the 1996 sci-fi comedy “Mars Attacks!” which was based on the gore-fest trading cards from Topps harkening back to 1950s b-movies.

There was previous a HBO remake of the project in 1993 to less fanfare with comedian Christopher Guest (“Best In Show”) directing and “Kill Bill” actress Daryl Hannah starring/producing. The giant-woman trope in genre films has slowed down in recent memory but the b-movie-themed animated film, “Monsters vs. Aliens,” attempted to use the “Fifty Foot Woman” angle as the protagonist voiced by Reese Witherspoon was another giantess creation via aliens.

What will be next is finding an actress to play this new version of Nancy Archer. I don’t think it would be hard to imagine if modern a Scream Queen like Jenna Ortega is considered for the main role in the remake given her recent working relationship with Burton on the “Addams Family” revival series “Wednesday” and “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.”

This isn’t the only classic monster movie getting a modern incarnation at Warners as a third version of “The Blob“ is coming from David Bruckner (“Hellraiser”) after previous versions from Rob Zombie and Simon West had trouble coming together. Composer turned director Michael Giacchino (“Werewolf By Night”) is also attached to remake the 1954 film “Them!” about giant monster ants. It’s starting to feel like the new studio heads, Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, are understanding that the studio has some legacy horror projects that could be resurrected in a similar way to what Universal is doing with their Universal Monsters lineup.

SOURCE: DEADLINE