Doc Brown Joining 'Piranha 3-D'

As Alexandre Aja gears up for his remake Piranha 3-D , which is filming this summer in scorching hot Lake Havasu, Arizona, the cast is starting to take shape. We already know that Elisabeth Shue will play a sheriff whose small town is overrun by the infestation of piranha following an underwater tremor, but a few other names have popped up in the last few days that are really noteworthy. Also, Jerry O'Connell. Bloody-Disgusting reports that the great Christopher Lloyd will play Goodman, an expert on the flesh- eating fish. He's a welcome addition to almost anything. OK, maybe not Baby Geniuses, but where we're going, we don't need Baby Geniuses. Still, when cast properly, the expert role in horror or sci-fi movies can be a keeper regardless of what surrounds it. Lloyd's contribution is in addition to Ving Rhames and Adam Scott co-starring and Richard Dreyfuss providing a Jaws-inspired cameo 35 years after the fact. If you've never seen the original Piranha (directed by Joe Dante), it's worth checking out. Hardly a great film, but it's fun in a campy sort of way. I love that Aja is the one remaking it, though. He's got genuine talent as a visual craftsman. Just watch High Tension to see what kind of crayons he colors with. You hope it's as fun as it can be, and that Aja gives us a new benchmark in live-action 3-D when this is released next spring.