Is This A Bad Omen?

You know, we're running out of ways to say, "Look, another horror remake" without repeating ourselves. We've tried being hopeful about it, we've tried cynicism, we've tried bitter worldweariness and a sense of post-Millennium ennui. Short of saying it in a Yoda-stylee ("Mmmmh, another remake horror there is, mmmmhhh") we're about out of ideas (much like Hollywood, ahem!). So let us just say that Flight of the Phoenixdirector and thoroughly nice fella John Moore has signed on to direct The Omen 666, a remake of the 1974 theological horror. The original film starred Gregory Peck as the American diplomat whose pregnant wife delivers a stillborn child. Without her knowledge, he substitutes it for another newborn baby, who they call Damian and raise as their own. But as their son grows up, strange accidents begin to take place around him, including the hanging of his nanny and the death of a priest who tries to help the family. Gradually, the diplomat becomes convinced that his son is the Antichrist