We at Modern Horrors have not exactly made our admiration for the remake process a secret, but even we are scratching our heads on this one. Sunn Classic Pictures revealed today that a remake of their 1983 Stephen King adaptation of CUJO is in the works. While this shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of you… the new acronym of a name certainly is strange.

The film is operating under the title C.U.J.O. – which we are told stands for “Canine Unit Joint Operations”. Now, I don’t know what that means – and if you have any theories, feel free to float them our way. It definitely casts a military/special-ops experiment vibe to the entire thing. And while I’m sure that can be successful… I’m not sure it’s needed. Just give me a pissed off pup (that doesn’t die at the end) and I’ll be good to go. Let’s keep the government out of things.

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