Several months back, we had heard reports that Alex Winter was attached to direct a 3D remake of cult favorite THE GATE. Shock Till You Drop is now confirming this from the man himself who recently attended a screening of FREAKED at the New Beverly Theater this past weekend. He told the audience there that he's currently in pre-production on the GATE update!


While most genre fans may recognize Winter in front of the camera in such films as THE LOST BOYS and BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE, Winter made the segue way into directing starting with his debut FREAKED and following it up with the highly underrated FEVER (starring Henry Thomas). Most recently, he's been directing episodes of the Cartoon Network's Ben 10.

The original THE GATE was directed by Tibor Takacs from a script by Michael Nankin and starred Stephen Dorff, Louis Tripp, Christa Denton and Carl Kraines.

Check out our vintage FRIGHT exclusive interview with the writer/director of the original THE GATE (and it's sequel) TIBOR TAKAS! (Click the frame to read it!)