ROB ZOMBIE To Remake The Blob
August 28, 2009, 15 years ago
Michael Fleming of Variety reports:
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.""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."
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