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"Rob Zombie to direct new "Halloween" film POSTED ON 06/05/06 AT 10:30 P.M. BY ETHAN AAMES The Hollywood Reporter reports that Rob Zombie has been brought in to helm a new "Halloween" film that will kickstart a whole new vision for the franchise and will neither be linked as a sequel to the other films, nor will it be a remake of the 1978 original by John Carpenter. The movie is being planned for an October 2007 release. Disney's Miramax Films will co-finance the development with former Miramax chiefs Bob and Harvey Weinstein's Dimension Films. "The look and the feel is going to be completely different," Zombie said in an interview. "'Halloween' started off as a very terrifying concept, a terrifying movie. But over the years, Michael Myers has become a friendly Halloween mask. When it came to the point where you could buy a Michael Myers doll that was cute-looking and press its stomach and play the 'Halloween' theme, you knew the scare factor was gone. "But I think the story and the situation is scary. All it needed was someone to come in and to take a totally different approach to make it scary again. To me, that's the challenge and that's the fun." Zombie says that the film will not follow the storyline of the previous films, including the last "Halloween" sequel, "Halloween: Resurrection" in 2002. "Everything that has come before does not figure into this one," Zombie said. "That series is done." And while Zombie aims to keep the scares and the character more real, the mask will remain. "That's an iconic image that can't go away," he said. Zombie is a fan of the original and said he sought Carpenter's blessing. "He said, 'That's awesome, go for it,"' Zombie said. "He was very supportive, which I thought was very important. I feel like 'Halloween' is his baby, and I wanted to be very respectful." "

http://www.cinecon.com/news.php?id=0606058

I hope he doesn't kill it. I always like Halloween.

6/6/2006 6:27:22 PM

yea please dont fuck this up.

6/6/2006 6:29:35 PM

sounds interesting, i'm a bit skeptical of the whole "pretend halloween doesn't exist" approach, but i suppose it could be a good thing



[Edited on June 6, 2006 at 6:36 PM. Reason : hfds]

6/6/2006 6:36:06 PM

if anyone could pull it off its Rob Zombie.

6/6/2006 7:53:01 PM

the new mask will use the face imprint of leonard nimoy

6/6/2006 8:04:08 PM

If he's going to ignore the whole backstory, then is it still Michael Myers? I understand ditching H2O (whatever it was called) and Resurrection, but is he ignoring the original as well?

6/6/2006 9:19:01 PM

it appears so

6/6/2006 9:20:54 PM

Well he is keeping the face mask, so I would assume the villain will be Michael Myers. After all it wouldn't be Halloween without Michael Myers. Yes I am aware that Halloween III didn't have him in it, but let's face it, that was like the Rocky V of Halloween movies.

6/7/2006 9:20:16 AM

i like his films

i'll see it the weekend it comes out

6/7/2006 9:25:56 AM

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"if anyone could pull it off its Rob Zombie."

Because House of 1000 Corpses is totally on the same level as Halloween. Except it really isn't even a little bit.

I hate Rob Zombie. He should go back to doing shitty Dr. Satan movies and stay away from the classics.

Then again, they're ruining all the other horror franchises with preqels and remakes, so it's not like getting someone else to do this would make it any better.

6/7/2006 11:39:22 AM

ruin is such a harshly misplaced term, i don't see why everyone says it so much. or maybe i just don't understand it.

6/7/2006 6:27:41 PM

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"Dig through the ditches, Burn through the witches I slam in the back of my Dragula"

6/7/2006 6:45:48 PM

Fuck Rob Zombie and his shitty ass movies.

6/7/2006 6:46:22 PM

he does music BETTER than movies (not to say his music is all that great, but there are a few good songs imo)

6/7/2006 6:47:21 PM

i heard devils rejects was entertaining, it's coming from BB online

6/7/2006 8:28:14 PM

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"TRICK OR TREAT MUTHA FUCKA!"

6/7/2006 10:35:59 PM

i liked house of 1000 corpses better for sheer wtf factor, but it wasnt a bad film. i hadnt had a good horror laugh in a while and the fact that some woman brought her 7-ish year old to it was even better.

6/7/2006 11:52:09 PM

house of 1000 corpses fucking ruled, and the fact that so many people are "wtf disturbed" by it just makes it that much better

devil's rejects was not as good though.

6/8/2006 12:39:40 AM

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"I hope he doesn't kill it. I always like Halloween. "

Halloween is already killed. It's been beaten to death 3 movies ago.

If anyone can revive it it's Rob Zombie. He's basically the worlds biggest Horror fan ever

6/8/2006 2:54:44 AM

that's not always a good thing

and there's ALWAYS room to make a bad thing worse. dont forget that

but it will probably kick ass

6/8/2006 3:07:56 AM

if it is written and/or directed anything like his other movies it will rank somewhere in the top three worst movies of all time ever.

i wonder if he'll call it "Fuckoween Fuck Fuck!" ?

6/8/2006 3:16:07 AM

i didn't like devils rejects, but I did recognize it as him trying to introduce something new. (whatever it may have been). And he's not stagnating and trying to push anything on us. He's still cutting his teeth and think this project is gonna give him the chance to do some pretty great things.

he has to take this opportunity though

6/8/2006 3:21:25 AM

yea if the opportunity is to break the "fuck" record.

seriously both of his last flicks aimed to be high production value B movies, but wound up being a fractured urban legend, and... jesus "Devil's Rejects" was basically masturbation.

6/8/2006 3:25:38 AM

i understand what you're saying, but you have to understand what I'm saying when i say that doesn't mean jack shit about how this movie will turn out

6/8/2006 6:05:23 AM

This is sure to bring people to the theaters.

6/8/2006 8:19:32 AM

Problem: prequel(not Zombie's fault probably)
Problem: Zombie's movies have been lame, lame, lame
Problem: Dr. Satan will get a reference in the Halloween movie
Problem: Likely overdone gore-fest with zero actually scary moments
Problem: The word "Fuck" where most people breathe, therefore taking all the power away from a great word.
Problem: I care about this way too much(also probably not Rob's fault)

[Edited on June 8, 2006 at 9:58 AM. Reason : ]

6/8/2006 9:57:38 AM

that's why i'm so optimistic actually. I think this is going to force him to do something other than a gore filled profanity contest. He's certainly always had the elements of Frightening in his films, but they just never jelled because he was working with stories that were more...disturbing than they were frightening.
(like schindler's list being directed like it were Texas Chainsaw massacre)

Whatever. I really HOPE it's going to be his breakout movie, and maybe make up for devils rejects.

[Edited on June 8, 2006 at 5:11 PM. Reason : s]

6/8/2006 5:09:21 PM

The new Halloweens suck. House of 1000 Corpses rocked. Devil's Rejects fucking rocked.


I am for this 100%

6/8/2006 7:49:44 PM