Michael Bay has got nards!

The uber-producer is looking to tap director Rob Cohen (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor) to remake Fred Dekker’s beloved 1987 kid horror-comedy The Monster Squad. Cohen, who served as producer on the original film, would do so again with Bay and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form.

Will he do it? Chances are good.

In a 2008 interview with New York’s Times Herald-Record, Cohen said:

It’s just one of those beautiful opportunities for a remake because it’s not like the first film was bad, but what was really bad was the marketing. So you’ve got a core fan group and a great property. A great story waiting to be rediscovered.

Written by Shane Black (Last Action Hero, Lethal Weapon), The Monster Squad followed a group of tween horror fans as they attempt to stop Dracula, the Wolfman, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy, and the Gillman from unleashing the forces of evil upon the world. The TriStar release earned just short of $4 million upon its release.

Dekker, the original’s director, had previously poo-pooed on the idea of a remake, calling it tragic and stupid. He appears to have changed his tune a bit (most likely out of respect for Cohen) this morning after hearing the official announcement.

He tells Ain’t it Cool News:

It’d be one thing if another filmmaker wanted to soil my sandbox… but if it weren’t for Rob Cohen, the original movie would never have been made. So I don’t begrudge him wanting to play in his own sandbox. I wish him well, and thank him for the opportunity he gave me in the first place.

I did not discover The Monster Squad until last December when my friend Girard over at Hills of Woodland sat Mrs. Muertos and I down to watch the Blu-ray edition of the film.

We laughed, we cried, and were shocked by the sexual undercurrents in the film and by how big an asshole actor Tom Noonan (Frankenstein’s Monster) proves to be during the BTS interviews. It was also fun to hear Dekker explain his doomed career in depressing detail. If you have the means, I highly recommend you guys pick it up.