Tim Burton to direct Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman remake written by Gillian Flynn

With Beetlejuice Beetlejuice wrapped up and heading to theaters in September, director Tim Burton is ready to line up his next project—and it’s one that makes a lot of sense for him, up to a certain point. According to Deadline, Burton will be directing a “reimagined” version of Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman, the 1958 sci-fi movie about a woman who becomes giant after getting exposed to space-radiation and proceeds to murder her cheating husband and his mistress.

That all seems like it’s in Burton’s wheelhouse, since (as Deadline points out) he’s done the ‘50s sci-fi thing before with the great Mars Attacks, but there’s another twist: This reimagining will be written by Gillian Flynn, best known for writing dramatic crime stories like Gone Girl and Sharp Objects. When you see that there’s a new Gillian Flynn movie, you don’t think “I assume it’s about a giant woman.” You might assume it’s about a woman killing her cheating husband and his mistress, though, so maybe this does all make more sense than we thought it did.

Then again, it is a “reimagined” version of the original, so maybe it won’t follow the exact plot. Deadline notes that it’s coming from Warner Bros., which also put out Barbie, so it predicts that this will be “another female power event” like that movie. That’s entirely possible, but it also seems dramatically premature… we don’t know if this movie is going to be an indictment of giant women or a celebration of them. The latter seems like a better idea, but who knows? Burton got a legacy sequel out of the way, so maybe he’ll cook up something wild this time.

Maybe it could be a spiritual sequel to Mars Attacks and Jack Nicholson can play multiple characters? He hasn’t done a movie in a decade, but he could play a giant woman.