It looks like Rob Zombie and Dimension films have officially taken off full-speed toward a sequel to the 2007 remake/revision of the original 1978 cult horror hit Halloween.
This will seemingly set in motion the start of new line of Halloween movies that hope to be better than all of the original movie’s sequels. If this continues, it will also need to avoid becoming as shamelessly repetitive as, oh, say maybe Saw has.
The difficult part is that now that everyone is ready to go, they’re aiming to put this movie out in October, giving them… well, no time to make a major motion picture at all.
Rob Zombie had this to say about the project:
I was so burned out. (But) I took a long break, made a record and I got excited again. Now, we’ll be hauling ass, and that’s the problem making a movie called ‘Halloween’: If you come out Nov. 1 or after, nobody cares. If it was called anything else, I’d be fine.
At the moment, it seems like they’re calling the movie, which Zombie will write and direct, H2, but if that’s seriously the title, it may reach a new low. Making a sequel to The Fast and the Furious and titling it Fast and Furious is one kind of embarrassment, but making a sequel to a remake which contained a sequel titled Halloween: H2O and titling it H2. Seriously? That’s like cloning Britney Spears, hacking one of her arms off, replacing her tongue with a mass of Swedish Fish, and giving her Aretha Franklin-level popularity status.
Sigh.
Source: Variety
Big MEH. Didn’t like the remake, probably won’t like this.
Comment by michael — December 21, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
Sigh…
Zombie needs to learn to stop taking other people’s ideas, adding blood and thinking it makes him edgy.
House of 1,000 Corpses was a rip-off of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the sequel, while better, was a ripoff of Natural Born Killers.
Now he’s not even putting up the pretense of changing the titles, just putting his name above them. He’s the burnt-out rock star version of Tyler Perry.
What’s next? Rob Zombie’s The Thing? Rob Zombie’s Nightmare on Elm Street? Rob Zombie’s Night of the Living Dead?
Pathetic.
Comment by WordSlinger — December 22, 2008 @ 7:44 pm