Ouverture Films is set to develop the remake of George A. Romero’s 1973 horror flick “The Crazies,” according to Variety.

Breck Eisner, director of “Sahara,” is helming a script by Ray Wright and Scott Kosar. Apparently, Romero will executive produce the project, which stars production in 2009.

The film follows what happens to people in a small Kansas town hit by a deadly virus that originates in the local water supply.  

Let’s hope Eisner and his team tackle this remake just as well as Zack Snyder did with “Dawn of the Dead.”

Apparently, the original “Crazies” was produced on a budget of approx. $270,000.