Ever since its bankruptcy and reorganisation, MGM has being looking into the vault for film to remake or reimagine. Now it’s found another one as THR reports is taking on an updated version of the 1957 sci-fi classic, The Incredible Shrinking Man.
The original film was based on Richard Matheson’s 1956 novel (he also wrote the screenplay), and they’re kepping it in the family, as Matheson’s son, Richard Christian Matheson, will write the script for the new movie. The 50s version is about a man who is exposed to radiation and insecticide, which causes him to start shrinking, resulting in everything from cats to spiders becoming deadly perils.
The new version will be modernised to reflect advancements in nanotechnology, with the new take being described by the author as an “existential action movie.”
Richard Matheson commented, “My original story was a metaphor for how man’s place in the world was diminishing. That still holds today, where all these advancements that are going to save us will be our undoing. It’s one of those fantasy concepts that does not age.”
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