The Crazies is a film.
Radha Mitchell . She started her career acting in various Australian TV series and films , and later appeared in Hollywood films such as Pitch Black , Phone Booth , Finding Neverland , Man on Fire , Melinda and Melinda , Silent Hill and The Crazies . A remake is a film or television series that is based on an earlier work and tells the same , or a very similar , story . The Crazies is a 2010 American science fiction horror film directed by Breck Eisner , with a screenplay by Scott Kosar and Ray Wright . The film is a remake of the 1973 film of the same name by George A. Romero , who is an executive producer of the remake .