From Hollywood reporter, "Zombie plots new mayhem for 'Halloween' Rob Zombie is resurrecting Michael Myers, one of the big screen's favorite horror villains. Zombie will write and direct a new "Halloween" movie, serving up what is being called as a brand-new vision for the long-running horror series. Malek Akkad of Trancas International Films will produce the feature along with Andy Gould of Vision Entertainment Group. Zombie also will serve as a producer and a music supervisor on the film. Miramax Films will co-finance the development with Dimension Films. The movie will not be a sequel or a straight-ahead remake of the original -- which helped director John Carpenter cement his name in the horror biz -- but a reimagining that will infuse new blood into the Myers story."
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Hey! I never grokked the coolness of this: "Zombie also will serve as a producer and a music supervisor on the film."
Not what the sentence is saying, but that the subject is simply "Zombie." This has great potential for fun sentences in future: Zombie walks off set! Hollywood looks to Zombie for guidance.
Anyway, I guess a "re-imagining" of Halloween is as good an approach as we could ask for. Certainly better than a prequel. I just hope he doesn't re-imagine that Michael Myers hangs out with a bunch of bad-toothed, stringy-haired, loopy hillbillies that never shut up.
And no clowns!
I think the one thing we can count on is a much darker installment, which will be good for the franchise. Zombie might not be great at making films just yet, but his stuff is raw and has a 70s horror energy vibe to it, if that makes any sense.
Also, there's no end of scary pictures of Zombie out there that I can put on blog posts.
(See, I almost said "pictures of him" and then realized I could use Zombie. It's a whole new era!)
House of Zombie!
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