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The Blob
Release Date: TBA
Genres: Remake, Horror, Science Fiction
Production Phase: Development Hell
Studio: Dimension Films Production Company: The Genre Company
Who's Making It: Brian Witten (Producer), Jack H. Harris (Producer), Judith Parker Harris (Producer),
Premise: A gelatinous creature that has a voracious appetite threatens to eat the world.... More »
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Rob Zombie's remake for The Blob is dead. The filmmaker told Deadline the news when he was talking about what he plans to be his next film, The Witches of Salem.
"I wanted to break away from anything related to preexisting material," he told the site. "The remake train is getting pretty tired now and when I made Halloween, everybody complained, either that it was too much like the original or too different. I like that people either love or hate what I do because it’s better than being in the middle, which means forgettable. But when you do an original premise, they take it on face value and after three years of not being able to win on Halloween, I just couldn't go through that again."
- Deadline. Comment on this Scoop (0)Friday, August 28, 2009
Rob Zombie has begun writing a remake of The Blob which he will direct and produce. The $30 million dollar production will go before cameras next spring. Producing with Zombie will be Richard Saperstein, Brian Witten, Judith Parker Harris and original 1958 Blob producer Jack H. Harris.
"My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing, that's the first thing I want to change," Zombie told Variety. "That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now. I have a totally different take, one that's pretty dark."
The director of House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects and the relaunch of the Halloween horror franchise also said of his next, "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. Even more than Halloween where I had to deal with accepted iconic characters like Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. The Blob is more concept than specific storyline with characters, so I can go nuts with it. [Full story]
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