It's Official

Hollywood no longer has a shred of fresh creativity left in it (via Dark Horizons):

Warner Bros. has tapped Phil Joanou ("Heaven's Prisoners," "Final Analysis") to helm its remake of cop actioner "Sharky's Machine" as a potential starring vehicle for Mark Wahlberg. Burt Reynolds directed and toplined the 1981 Warners pic, based on the novel by William Diehl reports Variety.

Updated version will vary in places from the original and likely won't be set in Atlanta. Story revolves around a tough homicide cop who is demoted to the lowest of the low, the morals squad. He rallies together a ragtag group of cops who successfully take down a man who rigs elections.

You know you're in trouble when you start remaking Burt Reynolds vanity vehicles that no one can even remember (save for my fellow BurtFest followers).