Remaking 'Piranha'?
A bad idea underway.
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I can't see this being any good, not by any stretch of the imagination. Didn't Chiller Films see Anacondas or Lake Placid before deciding they would remake the 1978 horror flick Piranha?
While I won't mind checking out the film and giving it a bad review this has to be considered a bad idea on all fronts considering the first film is considered a decent watch because of how campy it is, but a remake would simply be a bunch of CGI fish eating people.
As for the script, Chuck Russell is rewritting it, taking elements from Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger's "Killer Fish" script, plus an original script that John Sayles wrote. Russell is also being eyed for directorial duties, he previously directed The Mask, Eraser and The Scorpion King.
The original Piranha flick centers on a prehistoric strain of the feisty fish unleashed by a subterranean tremor in Arizona's Lake Havasu just as the college crowd shows up to frolic in the lake.
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Think about it. Wouldn't the screenwriters write a script about marine life terrozing people nowaday with the knowledge and insight that Anacondas and Lake Placid were horrible? If you do a cinema study of those films versus one like Deep Blue Sea, which owned the box office theaters as bringing in the most money than any other horror/thriller flick in the early 21st century, you can assess how to make an effective horror flick about Piranha without doing another Anaconda movie or Lake Placid.
And from my knowledge, the screenwriters working on the new Piranha movie are passionate enough to do a good job. Have some faith! :-)