A remake of Wes Craven‘s The People Under the Stairs is on the way! Ezra Claytan Daniels will be writing the script for Universal Pictures and Jordan Peele‘s Monkeypaw Productions, reports Deadline.

Monkeypaw Productions will produce the film with Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld serving as producers. The project is still in early development.

The original Universal Studios movie, which Craven wrote and directed, and produced with Shep Gordon. In the film, “Fool (Brandon Adams) breaks into the home of his family’s greedy and uncaring landlords, he discovers a disturbing scenario where incestuous adult siblings have mutilated a number of boys and kept them imprisoned under stairs in their large, creepy house. As Fool attempts to flee before the psychopaths can catch him, he meets their daughter, Alice (A.J. Langer), who has been spared any extreme discipline by her deranged parents. Can Fool and Alice escape before it’s too late?”

Are you excited for a remake?