Yes, it’s true. Vadim Perelman, the director of the Academy Award-nominated production “House of Sand and Fog,” has been confirmed to be in negotiations to helm MGM’s “Poltergeist” remake.

If Ukraine-born Perelman accepts to direct the film, he will be joining forces with screenwriters Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, as the writing duo has been appointed weeks ago to give the horror movie a face-lift.

The original “Poltergeist,” released in 1982, was directed by Tobe Hooper (“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”) from a script written by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais and Mark Victor. The movie starred Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins and Heather O’Rourke.

“Poltergeist,” which portrays an ordinary family’s flabbergasted reaction to an extremely shocking, yet intense nightmare-like situation, may prove to be very tempting for Vadim Perelman, who looked into similar subjects with his 2003 debut “House of Sand and Fog,” as well as with last year’s “The Life Before Her Eyes.”

Furthermore, the helmer was once linked to a Steven Spielberg continuously budding project named “Talisman,” based on a 1984 fantasy novel written by Stephen King and Peter Straub and, in addition to this, his name was also attached to “Atlas Shrugged,” starring Angelina Jolie, an adaptation movie from a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.