Timothy Olyphant Goes Crazy

Timothy Olyphant, star of HBO’s Deadwood and 2007’s Live Free or Die Hard, has signed on to star in The Crazies, the upcoming remake of the George A. Romero horror flick which Breck Eisner (Sahara) is directing.

The story revolves around the inhabitants of a small Kansas town who are beset by death and insanity after a plane crash lets loose a secret biological weapon into the water supply. Olyphant is playing the town’s sheriff.

The screenplay was written by Scott Kosar and Ray Wright. Kosar previously wrote The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Amityville Horror remakes as well as the Christian Bale flick The Machinist. Wright wrote 2006’s Pulse, which was a remake of the Japanese horror flick Kairo.

Michael Aguilar (The Departed) and Dean Georgaris (What Happens in Vegas) are producing, with Romero executive producing.

The original Crazies opened in 1973.