LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - J.J. Abrams wants to make the earth move for you.
The producer of "Lost" and director of the upcoming "Star Trek" movie is working with David Seltzer, the film writer of the original "Omen," to shake up audiences with a disaster flicker involving an earthquake.
The ignoble Universal project is non intended to be a remake of the studio's 1974 motion-picture show "Earthquake," which spawned a stop on the its popular studio apartment tour.
Details of the story are organism kept in a apparently tremor-proof vault, though as is Abrams' modus operandi, relationships will be at the core of the project. Abrams arguably rewrote the rules for disaster flicks with the winter box agency champ "Cloverfield," which thrust the big story to the background by qualification the audience see the bedlam through the prism of a personal human relationship.
Abrams is finishing up guiding "Star Trek" for its May 2009 release. At the import, plans only to bring forth the "Earthquake" revamp. Seltzer has a "Strangers on a Train" remake in development at Warner Bros.
/Hollywood Reporter
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