Jacob's Ladder set to be Remade

The 1990 cult hit movie JACOB'S LADDER is set to be remade by Mickey Liddell’s LD Entertainment and will be produced by Michael Gaeta and Alison Rosenzweig. Liddell also is producing with the company’s Jennifer Monroe. Jeff Buhler, who wrote the Clive Barker adaptation The Midnight Meat Train, is penning a script building upon an earlier draft by Jake Wade Wall, the scribe behind the 2006 remake of When a Stranger Calls. A director is yet to be named. [full article after the jump]

The original Jacob's Ladder was about a Vietnam War vet who suffers increasingly bizarre hallucinations and attempts to discover the truth behind them. The movie was written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Adrian Lyne. It achieved cult hit status.

The producers are more bent to making an homage and not just copy the original. The plan is to contemporize the story with new situations and characters but still maintain a story that examines issues and poses existential questions.

Gaeta and Rosenzweig were exec producer and producer, respectively, on the 2011 remake of Fright Night as well as Transit, an action movie that starred Jim Caviezel. The duo is developing a remake of the 1987 Mickey Rourke-Lisa Bonet thriller Angel Heart.

Among Liddell Entertainment’s recent credits are the Liam Neeson adventure movie The Grey as well as Disconnect, a drama that starred Jason Bateman. The company this week partnered with McG’s Wonderland Sound and Vision to back a slate of film, television and digital projects.