Hoping to do for V what the Sci Fi Channel did for Battlestar Galactica, ABC has given the go-ahead on a reboot of the hit 1980s franchise about alien lizards from another planet who take over Earth.

Scott Peters, the brain behind The 4400, will write and executive produce the update with Warner Bros. TV, per Variety. Warners shepherded the 1983 NBC TV movie, its sequel and a standalone series that ran during the 1984-85 season.

The new version will completely revamp the original, including changing the allusions from the Holocaust to 9/11.

Original V mastermind Kenneth Johnson, the über-producer who also created Th

The two companies will jointly invest $100 million over the next five years and the budget for each film would range from $5 million to $60 million, said Edward Borgerding, chief executive of Imagenation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ADMC.

"We are committing $100 million for 10 to 15 films over five years and we see exciting commercial prospects," Borgerding told a news conference.

Last month, Imagenation said it partnered with Los Angeles-based Participant

Or so says U.K. tabloid The Sun, which quotes the elfin Efron on the possible next steps in his career, "You know that Daniel Radcliffe role on Broadway, well it's been mentioned."

That's the kind of thing that could make folks at Disney dizzy, but thankfully the tween heartthrob is also slated for a remake of Footloose.

Which probably sounds waaay better to the suits than some of the other appendages that could get loose.

Nevertheless, the girl continues to make it harder and harder to stop worshipping the bed she rolls around on.

It seems that behind all those sexy photo spreads and come-hither stares, there lies, quite simply, a nerd.

"Megan's a bit of a geek," Fox's How to Lose Friends & Alienate People costar, Simon Pegg, tells OK! magazine. "She was a fan of [my zombie movie] Shaun of the Dead."

He also points out that while working with the 22-year-old starlet, she often shared her appreciation for comic books.

Here's hoping a

The Superbad star is going where no funnyman has gone before, signing on for a supporting role in I'm With Cancer, about one man's battle to beat the dread disease.

Hahahahaha...

Per the Hollywood Reporter, Rogen will also produce the Will Reiser-penned flick with partner Evan Goldberg and Ben Karlin, the former head writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

The story's based on Reiser's own story, focusing on his diagnosis with cancer at the age of 25 and how he uses comedy to cope with his mortality.

In other action on the casting couch: