In some cases, you can spoil a film just by comparing it to another. When you hear, “It’s kind of like The Sixth Sense,” you know one of the characters is a ghost. When you hear, “It’s kind of like Fight Club,” you know that the main character has a split personality and/or imaginary friend. And when someone says a movie is “Kind of like Jacob’s Ladder” you know that the whole thing is a hallucination, a fever dream in the mind of a person in his death throes.

So, when it was first announced a couple years back that a Jacob’s Ladder remake was in the works, a lot of us were, like, “What’s the point? We know that nothing is real…” but perhaps that won’t be the case this time. Though the Jacob’s Ladder reboot won’t hit theaters this month as had previously been announced, screenwriter Jeff Buhler recently sat down with the folks at Rue Morgue where he insisted his iteration of the film won’t have the same twist.

“The concept is really about the experience of coming home [from war] and readjusting, which is very present and poignant in the original film. Tim Robbins is a soldier who’s readjusting to life, and feels like a stranger in his own city and to his family, so getting those concepts out there and really living in that space in our film was important. Then we came up with a cool twist that’s different from the one in the original, but has that same spirit: You’re following this story with these characters, and then all of a sudden everything gets flipped on its head, and you’re like, ‘Whoa! Things are different than I thought’. I would say this is more a reflection of the original film than a remake of it.”

Very intriguing to say the least, but we’ll need to see 2019’s Jacob’s Ladder (or at least a trailer) before we can truly assess the validity of his words. To that end, producers have yet to announce when (and how) Jacob’s Ladder will be released and we know very little about the film at this point in time.

Synopsis:

After losing his brother in combat, Jacob Singer returns home from Afghanistan — only to be pulled into a mind-twisting state of paranoia. Singer soon realizes that his sibling is alive but life is not what it seems.

Jacob’s Ladder is directed by David M. Rosenthal; Buhler co-wrote the screenplay with Sarah Thorpe and the film stars Jesse Williams, Joseph Sikora, and Michael Ealy.

Are you a fan of 2019’s Jacob’s Ladder (directed by Adrian Lyne)? Are you excited to see the sequel sometime in 2019 (hopefully)? Let us know in the comments below or on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!