‘Anaconda’ Reboot Slithering Into Existence With ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Writer
AnAnacondareboot will soon be slithering to a theater near you. The late 1990s cult horror hit is getting a modern reboot from Sony’s Columbia Pictures, which has tappedSnow White and the HuntsmanwriterEvan Daughertyto pen the script.
The Hollywood Reporterbroke the news that anAnacondareboot is in the works at Columbia Pictures, which has hired Evan Daugherty, who has worked on tentpoles likeTomb RaiderandDivergent, to write the script.
Daugherty’s take on the newAnacondawill not be a remake or a sequel, but a “reimagining,” according to THR, which notes that Columbia Pictures is hoping for a “Meg-style approach to the concept.” The 2018 Jason Statham vehicle took the killer shark movie to campy big-budget heights, and went on to make over half a billion dollars (with the help of the Chinese market, whichThe Megmade considerable effort to appeal to). The studio is hoping the newAnacondawill take “B-movie concept and eventize it in scope and budget.”
Daugherty is certainly no stranger to the event movie, having co-written 2012’sSnow White and the Huntsman, which starred Charlie Theron, Chris Hemsworth, and Kristen Stewart. He’s also written the story for the YA action-adventureDivergentstarring Shailene Woodley, and made some B-movie level products likeTeenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesandTomb Raiderinto big blockbuster films. But Daugherty’s screenplays have always been quite serious, and don’t share the same over-the-top sensibilities ofThe Meg. But we’ll have to see if his script matches the expectations of the studio.
No producer or director is yet attached to the project.
The original 1997Anacondastarred Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Owen Wilson, Kari Wuhrer and Jonathan Hyde in creature feature that followed a documentary film crew that ventures into the Amazon. They come across a hunter obsessed with a legendary anaconda, and are soon forced to fend off the bloodthirsty giant snake.
Despite poor reviews and numerous Razzies,Anacondawent on to become a sizable box office hit, grossing$136.8 millionworldwide and spawning several theatrical and direct-to-video sequels. I’m sure no one is itching for anAnacondareboot, but with THR reporting that the title is one of the most profitable in Sony’s library, it’s no wonder the studio wants to reboot it.
