Rob Zombie prepares re-make of The Blob; Phoenixville may want to start running out of theatre now

It's indescribable! It's indestructible! (It's inevitable!) Nothing can stop it!
No, it's not The Blob; it's a re-make of The Blob!

Though this hardened cult classic was already re-made once before (in 1988, by director Chuck Russell), the well, apparently, has a few drops left at the bottom yet. And most people like to pretend that remake never happened. But maybe, just maybe, third time is the charm?
This article from Variety indicates Zombie plans on putting a new twist on the tale, but doesn't offer much in details other than production is chalked to begin next spring.
"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." - Rob ZombieI see your point, Rob, but how can you make THE BLOB without A BLOB? Maybe you should try going in a more Ghostbusters type direction with sci-fi comedy, opposed to sci-fi horror blood, guts, and bones. Just a thought. (Not that I want to see a re-make of Flubber of course.)
Of course, if Zombie can give it new life and properly update this story for the 21st century, that is something to get excited about. Isn't it?
But the real question is; what do you think about this, Phoenixville? This is YOUR movie, after all. Much of the magic of the original Blob is the various locations it was filmed in (all around our area, from Phoenixville to Chester Springs and Valley Forge), including your own Colonial Theater, which you triumphantly honor each and every summer with Blobfest, as you dart out of the Colonial's entrance hollering yourself hoarse alongside other Blob fanatics from around the country in glorious re-enactment style. What does this mean to you?? Is this upsetting? Expected? Awesome?!
2 Comments:
The 1988 remake was horrible. Hopefully Zombie won't screw it up.
I think the cheesiness of the original is what made it work.
The original 1958 film "The Blob" takes place in Downingtown, not Pheonixville. So those of you Pheonixvillians, sorry your town still has nothing cool.
~Drew
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