With his sequel to his Halloween reboot arriving in theaters in less than two hours, it was announced that shock rocker-turned-director Rob Zombie will be getting behind the camera for a remake of The Blob, a project in development now for years. This will be the second time the 1958 horror classic will be remade as Chuck Russell directed his own version in 1988. Read on for the skinny and then talk about it below. How do you feel about Zombie getting behind the camera for The Blob?
After reviving the "Halloween" franchise, Rob Zombie will next reinvent "The Blob."
Zombie will write, direct and produce a remake of the 1958 horror classic that launched the career of Steve McQueen. Production will begin next spring.
Zombie's deal to make "The Blob" his next film comes as Dimension opens "Halloween II," the Zombie-directed sequel to his 2007 hit "Halloween."
In the original "Blob," an object from space crashes into a field, containing a red blob-like substance that absorbs the humans it contacts and grows exponentially. While Zombie was a fan of the original, he's formulated a decidedly different take that he would not reveal.
"My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing -- that's the first thing I want to change," Zombie said. "That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now."
Zombie will produce with Genre Co.'s Richard Saperstein and Brian Witten; original "Blob" producer Jack H. Harris; and Judith Parker Harris of Worldwide Entertainment Corp.
Saperstein, the former Dimension Films president who developed a relationship with Zombie while they worked on "Halloween," said that funding is in place to make an R-rated film that will cost around $30 million. The budget model is similar to that of recent fright fare like "Cloverfield" and "District 9," and they expect to firm a distribution deal before production begins. Genre Co. is in pre-production on the independently financed, Darren Bousman-directed remake "Mother's Day."
"I'd been looking to break out of the horror genre, and this really is a science fiction movie about a thing from outer space," Zombie said. "I intend to make it scary, and the great thing is I have the freedom once again to take it in any crazy direction I want to."
Zombie has begun writing. He'll follow the release of "Halloween II" with a new album and tour this fall and get the script done at that time.
Shara Kay and Jeremy Platt will be "Blob" co-producers, and David Mendez is exec producer.
Zombie’s repped by ICM and managed by Spectacle Entertainment’s Andy Gould.
well when i first seen it i was like yea right just another rumor but now i c u guys have actaul things he has said. uuummmm GO ROB! I love him! he can do anything he sets his mind to. I love the original remake!lol but im sure he can do it even better! total faith.I know it will b a while bf we c it with the tour a T-REX b n next!? I will stil have to c it from his mouth on twitter to believe it 100%!
As long as it's littered with psychotic hillbillys, full frontal nudity & graphic violence, I'm down with it. Zombie's got a unique style, either you love it or hate it. I fuckin' dig his stuff, dunno why, I just do. But what happened to T-Rex?
A leaked excerpt from the script-
"HOLY FUCK? What the FUCKING SHIT IS THIS SHIT?"
"It appears to be some kind of strange sticky substance..."
"Yeah I'm sure your wife wouldn't mind some of my sticky substance."
"FUCK YOU! The last body you fucked had been fucking dead as shit for six fucking years!"
"But she still looked better than that fucking bitch of a wife you got!"
The two hillbillies laugh. Scout Taylor-Compton appears briefly to finger a bagel.
"My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing -- that's the first thing I want to change," Zombie said. "That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now."
LOL so the rob zombie blob will not have a ummm blob. no matter what he turns it into it will go thru a trailer park, sherri will be in it, the word fuck will be uttered 127 times, and people will be talking bout on here in droves
Here we go again.... I just hope ther isn't a Blobfranchise out there that will write a fucking novel about it. That was funny dogcarcass, however only someone with a secret crush on RZ's stuff could come up with it. As for the original The Blob, it was cool, it was good, it gave me kicks. How could it not be good with Steve McQueen? I love Rob Zombie, Cherrie Moon and all of his merry band of pyscho billys!
I found the official plot synopsis:
Rob Zombie the master of horror, revisions a classic tale about a Blob from outer space that consumes people. In this re-imagining, set in texas a family of murderous killers awake on halloween day to find a mysterious blob-like alien named Carl who is cannibalistic and has an appetite for murder and mayhem! Set in the outback west in the 1970's, this new tale is jammed pack with explicit gore and the word "fuck" alot, with an ending so shocking, it will spawn several spin-offs and sequels that will be directed and written by Zombie himself after vowing not to do them, but took a long second look at box office records and thought "why the hell not?" Starring Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler Mane, Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Scout Taylor Compton, and William Forsythe as Ronnie White (in his younger days before meeting michael meyers mom)
God, you guys are just a bunch of fucking losers. Do most of you just plan your day around hating on R. Zombie. Maybe you can all spend time hating John Carpenter for his remake of the Thing. Maybe if we are lucky we can have a bunch shity horror movies like Halloween8 get made for the next 10 years again... forbid a horror fan like Rob Zombie make something. Fucking losers...
It's going to suck shit. I guaran-goddamn-tee that. His movies always do.
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