While Warner Bros. dominates the box office thanks to The Conjuring: Last Rites another story that involves the movie’s real-life paranormal professionals, Ed and Lorraine Warren, is in the works — just not how you think. Today, news broke that David F. Sandberg (Annabelle: Creation) will back a brand-new project that will reimagine Stuart Rosenberg’s 1979 supernatural horror flick, The Amityville Horror for Amazon MGM Studios. Already pulling in the best of the best for what will serve as the second remake of the ghostly tale following Andrew Douglas’ 2005 film that saw Ryan Reynolds take over the character first played by James Brolin, the film is set to be co-penned by Ian Goldberg and Richard Nging, who are riding high from the success of The Conjuring: Last Rites. Although no casting is set at this time, we’re eager to hear more about the project and how the creative team chooses to move forward as they pour new vision into a longtime iconic film for the horror community.

Billed as a reimagining of the movies that came before it and the Jay Anson-authored book of the same name that started it all, we’re not sure how close to the original story the movie will stick, but here’s a brief refresher. Based on a true story, the tale centers around the Lutz family who, down on their luck, think they’ve struck gold when they hit the housing lottery. Tucked into the quaint town of Amityville, New York, the family found a gorgeous Dutch Colonial Revival home that came with furnishings for an affordable price. However, they’d soon discover why the house was on the market, thanks to an alleged haunting thought to be caused by the previous occupants. Unbeknownst to them, a young man named Ronald DeFeo Jr. massacred his entire family in that very house in 1974, which the Lutzes claimed set off a chain of events that drove the family patriarch — George Lutz — to insanity.

The Warrens Visited the Amityville House

So, how does this all tie into the Warrens? Well, just a few years after their investigation of the notorious doll known as Annabelle, the pair found themselves digging into the Lutzes claims out on Long Island. They would eventually announce that the home was in fact haunted, although the claims of the Lutz family have been placed under copious amounts of scrutiny over the last few decades.

via Collider