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July 16, 2008


The 1987 cult classic The Monster Squad may be getting the remake treatment soon courtesy of Paramount Pictures and Rob Cohen, director of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

In an interview this week, Cohen revealed that he's "talking with Paramount about the ownership rights, we just found out that because of all the different companies being bought and sold, (it was so hard to do) but we believe all the rights are back at Paramount."

Cohen, a self-proclaimed fan of the Fred Dekker-directed original film, added, "I have been waiting to finish this (Mummy 3) film, to really start the talks about remaking it. Maybe I would direct, maybe someone else with me producing."

The original Monster Squad followed a group of adolescent monster geeks who take on cinema's most iconic monsters -- Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Mummy, and the Creature From the Black Lagoon -- in order to prevent the forces of evil from shifting the cosmic balance in their favor.