Pointless Remake News - Cabin Fever

I don't have a problem with remakes, per se. We've seen some that are pretty good. For example, John Carpenter's version of The Thing is as much of a masterpiece as the 1951 original. The recent remakes/reboots of the Planet of the Apes franchise have been great films. The Magnificent Seven is a wonderful remake and re-imaging of The Seven Samurai (as is Battle Beyond the Stars). One can easily find movies that have been successfully remade, some loosely connected to the original, others very closely. Usually, what a worthwhile remake does is bring something to the screen that the original didn't. It can be a new theme, better effects, a different tone, a different setting...something that sets the new film apart. It also helps if the source material has some depth to it or reflects a story-telling archetype. For example, The Seven Samurai is such a primal story - a group of imperfect heroes helping the underdog against an oppressive force - that you can easily see it being made time and again.

Then, there are remakes that make you ask "What. The. Fuck." In that category is the announced remake of Cabin Fever. I enjoyed the original. I thought the first sequel was terrible and the prequel left a lot to be desired (see here for that review. But the basic concept - flesh eating virus infects group of people leading to gooey survival horror fun - could still lend itself to new movies. So, why remake the original? And why use the exact same script? Yes, that's right.

This is what Deadline is reporting;

Eli Roth’s 2002 horror comedy Cabin Fever is getting a remake, with the original movie’s writer-director Roth returning as executive producer. He won’t have to do much writing this time, though: The plan is to use the exact same Roth-Randy Pearlstein script that was shot in 2002, and with a cast already moved in, it puts the project on the fast track. Shooting begins this week in Portland, OR.
The new version will star Teen Wolf‘s Gage Golightly, Dustin Ingram, Samuel Davis, Matthew Daddario and Nadine Crocker. Travis Zariwny (Intruder) is directing.

I quite honestly don't understand this. First, while the first film was fun, it's not exactly a household name. Second, why use the exact same script? Are they that lazy? That dumb? Neither the sequel nor prequel are any good, but at least they told original stories. I don't care if this shows up on Netflix; I'm not watching it. And I watched Strippers vs Werewolves, so yo know my viewing bar is set pretty low. If we stop watching lazy shit like this, they'll stop making it. I'd rather watch the worst original story than a cynical money grab like this.