Original "Dragon Tattoo" Director Niels Arden Oplev Taking "Flatliners"

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev has signed on to direct the remake of Joel Schumacher’s 1990 sci-fi thriller Flatliners. Bloody Disgusting reports that the director will work from Ben Ripley’s (Source Code) script. The original film starred Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, Oliver Platt and William Baldwin as a group of med students who discover a window into another world when they flatline only to be confronted by their past mistakes. Oplev makes his English-language directing debut next month with the thriller Dead Man Down starring Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace, and he’ll also be helming the pilot for CBS’ TV series adaptation of the Stephen King novel Under the Dome.