Rock star turned director Rob Zombie proved himself as a filmmaker with his first two horror films, House Of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects. Then he went and remade the classic horror film Halloween with a sequel arriving this weekend.
Now the horror director wants to remake another horror classic: 1958’s The Blob.
Zombie will write, direct and produce the remake of the horror classic which launched the career of Steve McQueen. Production is set to begin next spring.
In the original film, an object from space crashes into a field containing a red blob-like substance that absorbs the humans it comes in contact with and begins to grow exponentially. While Zombie was a fan of the original, his insists that his version will be much different.
“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 have a totally different take, one that’s pretty dark.”
“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 continued. “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.”
This will be the fourth Blob remake as it was done in 1972 and 1988.
Source: Variety
