Hollywood is remaking the movie that made a group of New Zealand spiders famous.

Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment announced on Monday that they were teaming up with Australian director James Wan's (Aquaman, Saw, The Conjuring) Atomic Monster for a new version of 1990 horror-comedy Arachnophobia, Deadline Hollywood reported.



Starring Jeff Daniels, John Goodman and Julian Sands, the original centered around a newly discovered Venezuelan spider being transported to a small US town, producing a new species of dealing spiders which attack the residents.

As well as mechanical spiders, created by a team that included Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman, the movie made use of 374 of our finest Avondale spiders which were chosen (and flown to America) due to their large size and harmless nature.

Julian Sands starred opposite hundreds of New Zealand spiders in 1990's Arachnophobia.

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Also known as the Australian huntsman, the spiders are believed to have migrated to New Zealand in the 1920s on jarrah hardwood railway sleepers and established themselves in Auckland suburbs like Avondale, New Lynn and Blockhouse Bay.

It's not currently known whether they will be required again or when the new Arachnophobia will be in cinemas.