Today is a good day to die … if you hate remakes. If not, then you may want to stick around to see Sony Pictures’ planned redo of director Joel Schumacher’s Flatliners, a 1990 sci-fi thriller about med-school students conducting near-death experiments to see what lies in the afterlife.

Species 3 and Species: The Awakening scribe Ben Ripley, best known these days for penning Duncan Jones’ sci-fi hit The Source Code, has been hired to write the remake. Laurence Mark (I, Robot) is attached as producer.

Despite its intriguing premise, Flatliners remains most notable for its impressive cast of then rising stars Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt. Produced for $26 million, the film grossed over $61 million domestically during its theatrical run.

Zoe Saldana has sealed a deal with Paramount Pictures to produce and star in the supernatural thriller Dominion, reports THR. The 33-year-old Dominican beauty will play a woman who is half-human/half-angel. The pitch is from writing duo Dean McCreary and Chester Hastings (You’re My Angel).

Saldana, best known for her roles as Lieutenant Nyota Uhurain in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot and as Na’vi babe Neytiri in James Cameron’s Avatar, can currently be seen in Luc Besson’s (The Fifth Element) new action-oriented revenge-thriller Colombiana.