So, Sam Rockwell Might Be In POLTERGEIST, If You're Into That Stuff

 

The Wrap has learned that Sam "The best part in Iron Man 2" Rockwell is a top choice for the Sam Raimi produced upcoming remake of the horror-classic, Poltergeist.

Rockwell is currently weighing several movie offers and hasn't officially decided to take the part, though an individual familiar with the project tells TheWrap that Rockwell is now the filmmakers' top choice -- and that the actor is intrigued by the prospect of a lead role in a studio movie produced by horror maestro Sam Raimi.

Rockwell's representatives did not respond to multiple requests for comment. MGM, which is co-financing, had no comment.

On which role Rockwell would play, if it weren't obvious:

Should a deal work out, Rockwell would play the patriarch of the Bowen family -- they were the Freeling family in the original -- whose lives are uprooted when youngest daughter Madison (originally Carol Anne) is abducted by supernatural forces that trap her in the netherworld between life and death.

Poltergeist will be directed by Monster House's Gil Kenan, with a script from Oz the Great and Powerful writer David Lindsay-Abaire, and so far has Rosemarie DeWitt attatched as well.