Sony Pictures Announces Groundhog Day Reboot.....

Culver City, CA - Sony Pictures Entertainment, the parent company of Columbia Pictures, has announced the production of a reboot of the beloved 90s comedy Groundhog Day that will focus on the character of Ned Ryerson.

Actor Rainn Wilson, shown here in character as Ned Ryerson, is probably one of those method actors who will walk around the set all day yelling "Bing!"

"The original Groundhog Day was great and it connected with a lot of people," Tony Vinciquerra, Sony Pictures Chairman and CEO, explained. "But it raised a lot of questions, and I think people will be interested in the answers we've come up with."

Groundhog Day was one of the highest grossing movies of 1993 ,and it garnered widespread critical acclaim. The original was centered on the perspective of one character, Bill Murray's cynical weatherman Phil Connors. In the reboot, the focus will shift to that of Ned Ryerson, the enigmatic insurance salesman played by actor Stephen Tobolowsky, who will make a cameo as Ryerson's alcoholic father. Over the years, the character of Ned Ryerson has developed somewhat of a cult following and has been featured in a number of fan written short stories, ebooks, and webisodes.

Actor Rainn Wilson, who has been picked to play Ryerson in the reboot, has been uncharacteristically quiet when asked about script details, but didn't send us home completely empty handed. "So get this. Ned is stuck in his own time loop and he's on the run from the Time Force. He knew about what was going on with Phil the whole time but didn't want to blow his cover."

A photo taken on the set of Groundhog Day: Ned vs. the Time Force showing members of the Time Force watching helplessly as Phil Connors kidnaps Punxsutawney Phil during the Gobbler's Knob Groundhog day celebration

But who is behind these time loops? Is it the Time Force, or are they merely trying to fix the problem and restore order? And what happens to the minds of the people who are forced to replay the same day over and over again without awareness or the ability to retain new memories and skills? Is any of it even real at all, or are Ned and Phil simply a glitch in the program running a computer simulation designed to solve some great mystery? And if so, who designed that program? These are the questions that were raised but largely ignored by the original film.