Rob Zombie to remake "The Blob".

[ABleedingCorpse]

After a while it just becomes humorious. Trust me, I have a whole story about repeating G.I.JOE over and over with my friends when we saw that film, after a while it became very stale and old and they wanted to kill me if I repeated yelling out G.I.JOE at random times. But I did it for a reason because the moment the get tired of it, I was going to yell it one more time during a very hilarious part of the movie and it worked. they couldn't stop laughing, and I completely ruined the ending of G.I.JOE for everyone in the theater.

Sometimes the dead horse becomes a comical referance.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I want to see how this film turns out I just can't see it being better than the 88 remake. That movie was brutal and terrifying. I loved it.

And the McQueen version is good cheesy fun.

 

[Wolfwood]

Are you actually worried about the changes he might make to the creature? Personally, this is the kind of remake I wouldn't mind any Director taking over. The Blob itself is not an intelligent human character that they might 'screw up', it's a gelatin alien with no emotion.

Here's what I mean:

"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 just hope he doesn't drop the idea of a gelatinous alien creature in favor of something else.

 

[Darkness Falls]

yea i agree with zombie's quote, people would laugh at a pile of jelly

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

yea i agree with zombie's quote, people would laugh at a pile of jelly

Not if he films the jelly with shaky camera shots...those are scary!!!

 

[Darkness Falls]

maybe the blob could be like bob from monsters vs aliens..... but evil

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

I could see the Blob being some form of mind/body controling substance that seeps into a persons body and controls them. Like it gets into the water, people drink it and then they become killing forces of nature, or the blob keeps moving from body to body or is shape shifting.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I could see the Blob being some form of mind/body controling substance that seeps into a persons body and controls them. Like it gets into the water, people drink it and then they become killing forces of nature, or the blob keeps moving from body to body or is shape shifting.

people call it a Thing rip of and say he rips off another john Carpenter Idea. Even know his film was a remake and they don't know cause it was before their time.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

The Thing didn't really shape shift, it just mutated parts of the human and it wasn't a shape shifter at will, it transforms once.

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

I just watched a new interview with Rob and he talks about doing other films and says he really isn't interested in doing another remake/franchise film.

Think Rob really wants to do THE BLOB? He spoke about how that's all he's offered is remakes...I have the feeling he's really just stuck against the wall with not being offered a chance to do HIS film and can only do something else with remakes.

I'm will to bet Rob backs out of THE BLOB in the coming months.

 

[danger]

I just watched the blob '88 on youtube, and I can tell you that I wasn't laughing at the gigantic jelly. It's not the look of it that's scary, it's what it did to people. some of those deaths were brutal, I mean, it melted a kids face off for gods sake. and just the idea that it has no form and no reasoning but to kill anything it comes across is frightening. If a remake must be made, don't change what it looks like, the name of the movie is the blob, it has to be a blob. just update the effects.

 

[AgentRed]

They are going to remake The Thing with pretty teenagers aren´t they ?

 

[Nivek]

I'm will to bet Rob backs out of THE BLOB in the coming months.

If the Weinstiens have anything to do with it, it may happen like that. "Creative Differences". I know he likes old school sci-fi flicks as well so it's not something I don't see him doing. But the blob is pretty heavy FX stuff, and I don't see how it could be done and have it not be really bad or really cheesey.

 

[GhostPoet]

If I was doing a Blob re-envisioning...I would keep it in the form of a blob that expands...but allow it to change the molecular structure of itself at will. IE...instead of just running over the top of someone at dissolving them...part of its mass would turn into a metal spike which extends and stabs someone...THEN pulls them in and dissolves them.

It would be able to shift itself into other materials as well...depending on what is needed for it's survival and hunting.

 

[CashforStash]

yeah this is cool and all that he's remaking it (I loved all his movies even H2)

BUT WHATS THE EFFING POINT IF HE DOSENT MAKE THE BLOB A BLOB.


What is the Blob going to be raised in a trailer park and is bullied by his ****ty sister?

But honestly, I think Zombie needs to keep some kind of "blob" like substance in this movie, or else im out.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

If the Weinstiens have anything to do with it, it may happen like that. "Creative Differences". I know he likes old school sci-fi flicks as well so it's not something I don't see him doing. But the blob is pretty heavy FX stuff, and I don't see how it could be done and have it not be really bad or really cheesey.

I think thats maybe why he wants to do it and try something different then the Halloween series.

 

[DACrowe]

I love how people act like Rob's the only director who puts his wife in almost everyone of his movies.

Hellooo, Tim Burton.

There is a difference between Sheri Zombie and Oscar nominated Helena Bonham Carter though. Carter is almost always magnificent in everything she does, so the nepotism bothers no one, really.

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

I really hate Rob Zombie as a director. Halloween sucked my balls and completely destroyed everything that made the original so good. I really enjoyed the 80's remake of The Blob (I don't give a **** what you say Rob...it was good and actually scary) and now he is gonna **** that up. And his quote is probably the funniest thing I have ever read. If your intention is to not have a big blob monster then why are you remaking a movie called The Blob? What a tard.

I can see it 5 years from now.

Rob Zombie to direct remake of Child's Play
"Well my intention is to not have a killer doll...people would laugh at that now. So instead I am going to make the killer a white trash midget who had a bad childhood."

 

[The Lizard]

And his quote is probably the funniest thing I have ever read. If your intention is to not have a big blob monster then why are you remaking a movie called The Blob? What a tard.

I can see it 5 years from now:

Rob Zombie to direct remake of Child's Play
"Well my intention is to not have a killer doll...people would laugh at that now. So instead I am going to make the killer a white trash midget who had a bad childhood."

t:

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

LOL...that's funny.

 

[GothamAlleys]

In 2002, he had this to say about remakes:

I feel it's the worst thing any filmmaker can do. I actually got a call from my agent and they asked me if I wanted to be involved with the remake of Chain Saw. I said no ****ing way! Those movies are perfect - you're only going to make yourself look like an ******* by remaking them. Go remake something that's a piece of **** and make it good. Like with my movie (House of 1000 Corpses) I have elements of Chain Saw in it because I love that movie so much, but I wouldn't dare want to "remake" it. It's like a band trying to be another band. You can sound like The Beatles, but you can't be The Beatles.

In 2006, Zombie signed on to do Halloween. Just prior to that film's release in '07, he stated:

My movie has a beginning, a middle and an end — and then I am done. Anything that comes after that? It will not involve me.

After that film's opening weekend, he was signed on to a two-picture deal and had this to say:

I’m not going to do any more Halloween movies, or any more remakes of any kind. I signed up for two more pictures, but not two more Halloween pictures. They’re going to be original stuff — and I don’t necessarily know that they’re going to be related to the horror genre either.”

He then does Halloween II and is now doing a remake to The Blob.

 

[Figs]

I'm a huge Zombie fan but even I will admit that he's eating a lot of crow lately.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I see alot of people like to make remakes of posts.

I mean saying the blob will be redneck so many times before it gets tiresome!

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

Zombie has a lot of crow on his plate, yes. I don't know what to say about his words, other then people are allowed to change their minds over time. I honestly think Zombie thought of himself as the NEXT big director and found out that the politics of film don't always play to the hand of the writer/director. You have to sell out a bit in order to movie forward with something. Every director has done it, sacrificed pride for the hope of making a film to further their career. Maybe in 3 years Zombie will get an original idea sold (El Superbeasto is original..but he really wrote it and had others make it).

I won't like, I'm looking forward to THE BLOB by Rob, it's interesting to see where he takes it...if indeed he does make it, which isn't set in stone until production atually starts, and we have a whole year before that happens so anything can change. Rob can back out of it and not do it. For wanting to see a ROB ZOMBIE film, I really hope he does back out and find a studio (GO BACK TO LIONS-GATE) that what's his film, and not just his 'version' of a film.

But I fully understand why Rob would eat his words here. The Blob isn't horror, it's sci-fi, and that's a different direction, with a huge budget, and a lot of room to try something different. If I was in his situation, and nobody wanted to make MY film, yet I wanted to still make films..I'd do whatever I could that would allow me to try to do something new with what I'm given. That's possibly why The Blob attracts Zombie to do it.

It's all up in the air really at this point. Cold Feet get the best of anyone, either the studio or Rob...so anything can happen from now to a year from now. His boxing film isn't going to get made anytime soon, because it's not an interesting story to make into a film (at least it's not to me...we have the Wrestler, and to really junk trash it up to be T-Rex wouldn't be any original).

 

[Doctor Jones]

In 2002, he had this to say about remakes:

I feel it's the worst thing any filmmaker can do. I actually got a call from my agent and they asked me if I wanted to be involved with the remake of Chain Saw. I said no ****ing way! Those movies are perfect - you're only going to make yourself look like an ******* by remaking them. Go remake something that's a piece of **** and make it good. Like with my movie (House of 1000 Corpses) I have elements of Chain Saw in it because I love that movie so much, but I wouldn't dare want to "remake" it. It's like a band trying to be another band. You can sound like The Beatles, but you can't be The Beatles.

In 2006, Zombie signed on to do Halloween. Just prior to that film's release in '07, he stated:

My movie has a beginning, a middle and an end — and then I am done. Anything that comes after that? It will not involve me.

After that film's opening weekend, he was signed on to a two-picture deal and had this to say:

I’m not going to do any more Halloween movies, or any more remakes of any kind. I signed up for two more pictures, but not two more Halloween pictures. They’re going to be original stuff — and I don’t necessarily know that they’re going to be related to the horror genre either.”

He then does Halloween II and is now doing a remake to The Blob.

Damn, he's a walking contradiction. He needs a starburst.