The original producer of cult classic horror-comedy "House" has announced the film will soon get a remake.

Way back in 1986 the film, starring "The Greatest American Hero" William Katt, had quite a cult following. Now the original producer for the film Sean Cunningham has announced that he is remaking the film for the modern generation of horror fans.

According to an exclusive interview with horror magazine Fangoria, the producer, who is best known for starting the "Friday the 13th" franchise, opened up about what he intends to do with the "House" reboot.

Speaking with the magazine about his Lifetime Achievement Award, recently bestowed upon him at the New York City Horror Film Festival -- on Friday the 13th -- the longtime genre veteran spoke about his plans for the remake, similar to the theme of the "Ghostbusters" remake.

"We are deeply in development," Cunningham told Fangoria. "We worked on [a new] 'House' about four or five years ago and determined that the structure of [the original] is extremely strong, and that just remaking it in modern times wasn't going to improve it, and wasn't going to change it. It would have to be rethought, and there had to be a really good reason to do it."

So Cunningham has taken a cue from the new "Ghostbusters" film and decided to do a gender reversal for the new version.

The original, which starred Katt as an author, followed the protagonist as he moved back into a house following the suicide of his aunt. It also happened to be the same house that his son disappeared in. The author intended to write a new novel about his experiences in Vietnam while staying there, but a ghost and evil creatures come out of the woodwork to disrupt his plans.

"Recently, we came up with-and it sounds so obvious-what if we made a gender switch, so that it's not a man in the house?" Cunningham said. "Although they're not involved, imagine 'House' starring Kristen Wiig or Melissa McCarthy."

Wiig and McCarthy are both appearing in the new "Ghostbusters" remake, and that news seems to have inspired Cunningham to bring the same theme to his own remake. He said it was his dream to bring such actresses to a fun-filled horror-comedy movie of his own.