For San Francisco film lovers, we are pleased to present this story from “The Moving Picture.”

The folks over at Shock Till You Drop have learned Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill) has joined the cast of The Crazies, a remake of the 1973 George A. Romero horror film. Timothy Olyphant is also starring in the flick, which is being directed Breck Eisner (Sahara).

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 and speculation is Mitchell will play his wife.

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.

It’s slated to open in September.

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