The Driller Killer Remake in the Works

Now this is a film that I never thought would actually be getting the remake treatment. According AITH, Abel Ferrara's The Driller Killer is in fact going to be remade by UK based production company Masterplan Films Ltd and Urban Way Productions. Right now they have a virtual unknown director Andrew Jones attached to direct the film.

The remake will take place in London this time around and they will be taking out the exploitation tones of the original which in my opinion made the film what it was. Instead they are going to focus on the psychological aspects of the lead character as he spirals into madness.

In the original, an artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.