Jessica Biel Starring in The Hitcher Remake?

Thanks to our disfigured big brother site, Movies Online, we have learned that Jessica Biel is interested in the Hitcher Remake. At the moment Michael Bay plans to remake Robert Harmon's Thriller "The Hitcher". In the original movie C. Thomas Howell plays a guy taking a drive-away car from Chicago to San Diego. On a whim, in the rain, and against his better judgment, he picks up a hitchhiker (Rutger Hauer).

Another remake!? Come on guys. I am personally beginning to get really annoyed with Michael Bay. Whats with all these remakes? Isn't there something original you can do? Look at it this way. There are thousands of independent filmakers out there with scripts and are making movies everyday. Why not just once give them a chance and see what happens.

The hitcher quickly admits to being a murdering psychopath, and once Howell finally gets him out of his car, he is pursued with all the vengeance of the ancient furies. We're never sure if the hitcher is a figment of his imagination, making Howell a schizophrenic killer, or if he's real and Howell is the random victim of a wandering madman, which is how his potential new girlfriend (Jennifer Jason Leigh) thinks of him.

Stay tuned to read more about the development of this project.