Did u watch that on TCM the other night? Great flick (and book).
I like the tightness of the script in the book and the 1971 movie, which they kind of fouled up in the mini-series.
It could, theoretically at least, be remade, in an intelligent manner, instead of a CGI-fest, but that would require an intelligent and informed screenplay.
Oddly enough, they could say the facility was built to work with (real) extremely deadly pathogens, such as H5N1 influenza and Extremely resistant Tuberculosis and other resistant diseases; and then as now a paradox exists that biological weapons defense is almost identical to biological weapons offense.
(Some years ago, during the Reagan years, some smart guy at the Pentagon tried to sneak an appropriation through congress for an “aerosol lab”, which is a biological weapons development facility and a major treaty violation; and it was only spotted by a bored congressional aide who was flipping through the voluminous appropriations bill in the early hours of the morning. He called a buddy at the Pentagon to ask what it was, and caused a huge hubbub.)
In any event, not only could a remake show a modernized USAF and satellite tech, but decontamination tech, futurized scientific equipment, yet the same or similar personalities and interactions.