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In addition to My Sassy Girl (and It's Alive remake director Josef Rusnak's upcoming Victims), Jesse Bradford is also attached to The Echo, due to start shooting in August. The Echo is a remake of Sigaw, a 2004 Filipino haunted-apartment thriller in the Dark Water vein.

Yam Laranas directed and handled photography on the original, based on his own story. They'll give him the reins and significantly more than $350,000 he used for the original (budget is estimated at $5 mil). With Filipino horror holding less cachet than Japanese and Korean, it's good to see the studio going the Grudge/Ring 2 direction of letting the original director make the film.

Of course some translation/localization is needed, but let's hope the use of Eric Bernt - writer of Romeo Must Die, whose sequel/remake work includes the story for Highlander: Endgame and the script for the 2007 Hitcher remake - doesn't bode too poorly.