"Pirates of the Caribbean" helmer Gore Verbinski and Universal are remaking Bong Joon-ho's awesome Korean thriller "The Host".
Commercials director Fredrik Bond will direct, Mark Poirier ("Smart People") will pen the script.
The film, which Verbinski will produce, follows a town terrorized by a giant mutant squidlike creature hatched by toxins that flow into a nearby river from a military base. When the creature grabs a little girl, her dysfunctional family must band together to rescue her.
Variety has the low-down.
