Last year's Sundance Film Festival was marked, in part, by quite a case of virtual-reality fever. Content creators and filmmakers began to embrace 360-degree videos, just as consumer-grade VR headsets started rolling out in greater numbers.

This year, Sundance appears poised to continue the trend, with the fest's kickoff being marked by the announcement of a VR project that nobody was necessarily asking for: The Lawnmower Man.

On Thursday, Jaunt, a 360-degree video production company, announced a slate of upcoming projects that will require VR headsets. Lawnmower Man stands out in this list as the only one based on a previously known film, though the only names currently attached to the project are its "rights holders." No directors, writers, actors, or production dates have yet been announced.

That means we're likely looking at a ground-up realization of the original story, which, lest you forget, was such a bastardization of Stephen King's original short story of the same name that he sued to have his name taken off the film. King's version had nothing to do with an exploration of how virtual reality headsets might shape the future—let alone anything about Pierce Brosnan wearing white shorts, training chimps to wage VR wars, or engaging in VR sexual assault.

For now, we can only surmise that the default first-person nature of Jaunt's new Lawnmower Man may add a very meta nature to the "VR is bad" plot. Also, like the rest of Jaunt's current lineup, it will probably debut as a 360-degree video version as opposed to the kind of fully tracked experience where players can naturally move and maneuver around. (If the project was a fully retro-styled one, on the other hand, smartphone processors might be able to load its low-poly models as a fully-VR experience. That'd be a saving grace for this project's source material.)