Rob Zombie to remake '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."

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007857.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2562

This gets a big yawn from me. Zombie needs to do something original again. Reboots and remakes aren't as good as his Rejects.

and why the hell The Blob? I know he loves those flicks, but damn...

Where the hell is his animated toon at?

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.

Looks like you get your wish. :)

NOT!

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It just seemed unrelentingly ugly without being scary or suspenseful. I'm no prude, and I don't mind graphic violence or gore on film, but I like a film to have something a little more engaging.

I suppose it was cool that the Rejects were the protagonists, in a sort of fucked up, extreme "Thelma and Louise" sort of vibe.


Not sure what to think of Rob's Blob job, though...

:rofl:

Well, he can make it any color he wants. But I assume it's at least going to be a "blobby thing."

Cuz, you know... "The Blob"

:rofl: