Director Discusses "Piranha 3-D" Details

From worstpreviews, Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes), the French director who is helming the upcoming "Piranha 3-D" reboot film, doesn't have much sympathy for his teen protagonists: "They are like meat for the fish," Aja told SCI FI Wire. "I'm not really on the side of the spring-breaker."

Aja has a novel take on the film's subject matter. "The story of the movie is these prehistorical piranhas during spring break," Aja said in an interview. "It's really about these crazy killer fish [who are] going to eat all these drunk kids and drunk bikini girls. For me, it's the ultimate guilty pleasure movie."

Aja added that his film will be kind of a throwback. "Kind of ... like 'Weird Science,'" he said. "It's like [director Joe Dante's] 'Gremlins,' for adults. There's a lot of gore. [It's] much more sexy. I don't want to do something completely campy and phony. I want to do something scary."

"Piranha 3-D" will be a completely original story, he added. The only connection to the previous "Piranha" films will be those hungry, mutilating fish. "It's not based on the Joe Dante or James Cameron movie at all," he said. "It's a piranha movie. There is absolutely nothing [from those movies]."

Aja promises plenty of jolts for the audience and feels that the 3-D element will help create that total experience. "I think the 3-D is the key," Aja said. "It really pushed me to make this movie. It gives the immersion factor more than anything else, and it also gives that entertaining aspect."