And so begins yet another inevitable battle of whether remakes themselves are a good idea or not. Personally as a strong proponent of the idea that, just as our own MovieBob says, you really can make a good film out of anything, that includes ideas that have already been done. Tons of remakes have been good, tons of new movies are terrible. If it just focuses on being good and succeeds, I couldn't care less where it came from.
As far as this one goes, I'm not really sure what to make of it. I know very little about the original and even less about how this one will conduct itself, but there's certainly potential in the idea if they can explore it properly.