Miramax just announced a remake of The Faculty, the 1998 sci-fi thriller that had a quick turnaround into cult classic status. According to a report by Variety, original director Robert Rodriguez will ...

which follows a group of kids as they multitask between navigating an alien invasion and playing D&D. (An excerpt from the book follows this interview.) That premise may remind savvy readers of ...

an impending alien invasion, and the complexities of how different people cope with such nearing fate. In the books, a scientist makes contact with an alien race, the San-Ti, in Beijing.