Nearly a quarter century after directing Jeff Goldblum in The Fly, David Cronenberg is to remake his 1986 classic film for 20th Century Fox.

Cronenberg’s breakout film about a scientist transformed by teleportation experiments was itself a remake of Kurt Neumann’s sci-fi film made in 1958.

Fox did a 1989 sequel without Cronenberg, but apparently can’t get enough of the metamorphic and effects-driven property.

Cronenberg, who is repped by WME, and composer Howard Shore, who scored the 1986 film version, were behind The Fly, The Opera, which was performed in Paris and Los Angeles in 2008.

The Fly reboot will also mark a break from dramatic thrillers for Cronenberg, who found box-office success with his two most recent films, A History of Violence and Eastern Promises.

His next project is a screen adaptation of novelist Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, with production in Toronto and New York City early next year, after the MGM action thriller The Matarese Circle, to star Denzel Washington and Tom Cruise, was put on hold as the script is reshaped for Cronenberg to direct.