Rob Zombie Next Remaking ‘The Blob’

The one-time heavy metaller and now director of white trash-filled horror movies is, once again, going back to the remake well.  According to Variety, Rob Zombie will write, direct and produce a remake of the 1958 horror classic, ‘The Blob.’

My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing — that’s the first thing I want to change.  That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now.

Zombie’s words make us wonder if his next film will feature an all-CG creation, and, if that’s the case, it probably won’t be much scarier than the original.

Zombie will be producing with Genre Co.’s Richard Saperstein, a former Dimension Films president who developed a relationship with Zombie.  According to Sapersteing, they have a budget of around $30 million and the film will absolutely be an R-rated film.

Says Zombie about the idea to make the film:

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.  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.

Production is set to begin in the Spring.  Of course, for anyone who has been following Zombie’s directorial career, this still leaves his long-time gestating project ‘Tyrannosaurus Rex’ waiting in the wings.  Last we heard, he planned to open ‘Halloween II,’ release a new album this Fall, begin a musical tour through the Winter and early Spring, and begin work on ‘T Rex’ sometime first or second quarter 2010.  The news of his remaking ‘The Blob’ seems to another sidestep along the path of ‘Tyrannosaurus Rex’s production.