WarGames Reboot Finds Writer and Director

MGM is currently in negotiations with burgeoning director Dean Israelite to helm its reboot of the 1983 Matthew Broderick/Ally Sheedy Cold War-era hacker thriller, WarGames.

Also, according to Deadline, Arash Amel (Erased) is set to pen the remake - which we're assuming is still about a young hacker who accidentally accesses the U.S. military nuclear weapons system, thinking its all a spirited, realistic computer game.

Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy in 1983's WarGames.

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