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Variety reports that director David Cronenberg's 1983 sci-fi cult classic Videodrome is next up on the remake chopping block.

The original film, which was ahead of its time in exploring complex questions about violence in American media culture, will be updated for a more modern take.

The approach will "infuse it with the possibilities of nano-technology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller."

Screenwriter Ehren Kruger (Arlington Road, The Ring) will pen the remake to which Cronenberg is not attached in any fashion as of yet.

Kruger's latest work is about to roll out to theatres across the country, having co-written Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.