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Re: 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."
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.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111800 … id=13&cs=1
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"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."
He said the same damn thing about Halloween. 
Pop quiz: Can blobs "skull fuck" people?
Re: Rob Zombie to remake 'The Blob'
Baby sez yes... with a grin on her face.
I can picture it now... Sheri will play a town waitress, who's the main heroine of the film, and at least shows the goods 9 times in the film. Bill Moseley will play the town Sheriff, and just recycle Chop Top once again (NAM FLASHBACK NAM FLASHBACK). And Sid Haig will play The Blob.
And the f word will be in the film at least 86 times.
16 breasts
1 vehicle crash with explosion
Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Swamp Music" will play as the Alien Spaceship lands
William Forsythe Fu
Dwarf Fu
Sounds like another Zombie original. 
Joe Bob gives it no stars.
Re: Rob Zombie to remake 'The Blob'
Baby sez yes... with a grin on her face.
I can picture it now... Sheri will play a town waitress, who's the main heroine of the film, and at least shows the goods 9 times in the film. Bill Moseley will play the town Sheriff, and just recycle Chop Top once again (NAM FLASHBACK NAM FLASHBACK). And Sid Haig will play The Blob.
And the f word will be in the film at least 86 times.
16 breasts
1 vehicle crash with explosion
Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Swamp Music" will play as the Alien Spaceship lands
William Forsythe Fu
Dwarf Fu
Now that's what I call a fucking movie!
Re: Rob Zombie to remake 'The Blob'
1988 Remake
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p … 53DA8836F9
The first 10 minutes is a little out of sync, but the rest is good...
Re: Rob Zombie to remake 'The Blob'
Baby sez yes... with a grin on her face.
I can picture it now... Sheri will play a town waitress, who's the main heroine of the film, and at least shows the goods 9 times in the film. Bill Moseley will play the town Sheriff, and just recycle Chop Top once again (NAM FLASHBACK NAM FLASHBACK). And Sid Haig will play The Blob.
And the f word will be in the film at least 86 times.
16 breasts
1 vehicle crash with explosion
Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Swamp Music" will play as the Alien Spaceship lands
William Forsythe Fu
Dwarf Fu
Sounds like another Zombie original.
Joe Bob gives it no stars.
You have some stats wrong.
He'll attempt to beat South Park's record of most f bombs in a movie by turning it up to 378.
And Sherri Moon will play a waitress who is a stripper during the night with 3 kids.
