[Las Vegas Dave]

FYI:
http://screencrave.com/2013-02-13/the-incredible-shrinking-man-remake/

‘The Incredible Shrinking Man’ Is Getting A Remake.

MGM announced today (February 13th, 2013), that they had purchased the rights to the classic science-fiction novel The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson for a planned film adaptation—making it an ostensible reboot/ remake of The Incredible Shrinking Man, the 1957 classic sci-fi film that also adapted the novel.

According to /Film, Universal had previously owned the rights to the story “for decades,” and until recently had planned to have Brett Ratner direct Eddie Murphy in a comedic remake in which Murphy would have played a magician who shrinks due to magic, which is pretty much the worst idea in the world ever.

Now that the rights have lapsed and MGM has snapped them up, the film studio has even managed to hire Richard Matheson himself, now 86 years old, to write the script with his son, Richard Matheson, Jr.

[MUDDOG]

That was a really scary movie.

I remember him fighting off the cat.

[Jed Eckert]

"[closing soliloquy narration] Scott Carey: I was continuing to shrink, to become... what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future?

If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world?

So close - the infinitesimal and the infinite.

But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet - like the closing of a gigantic circle.

I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God's silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite.

I had thought in terms of man's own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends in man's conception, not nature's. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing.

My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too.

To God, there is no zero. I still exist! "

..........The Incredible Shrinking Man - 1957

One of best sci-fi movies made. Guaranteed they'll screw up the remake and I bet they never mention God.