Unmade Rob Zombie Films We Need To See
Rob Zombie has stated that for each one movie challenge of his that strikes ahead, there are 5 potential initiatives that fall by the wayside. We haven’t heard of fairly that many unmade Rob Zombie films, however we’ve got heard of a number of over time that by no means acquired off the bottom… and sadly, most of them sounded fairly attention-grabbing. A bit of over a yr in the past, Zombie had stated he didn’t know what his subsequent film goes to be, however he did know what it’s not going to be: he received’t be persevering with his Firefly franchise (which consists of Home of 1000 Corpses, The Satan’s Rejects, and 3 from Hell), and he doesn’t wish to make a sequel to The Munsters (which was poorly acquired). So whereas he figures out his subsequent cinematic transfer, we we’ve got put collectively an inventory of Rob Zombie Films We Need To See!
DR. SATAN PREQUEL/SEQUEL
Okay, so this flies proper within the face of what Zombie simply stated about not making any extra films within the Firefly franchise. However whereas we agree that there’s nowhere for the story to go after the occasions of 3 from Hell, there might be an attention-grabbing story that focuses on the weird character of Dr. Devil. A prequel set earlier than Home of 1000 Corpses may present how Dr. Devil acquired concerned with the Firefly clan and arrange his underground lair filled with experiment topics. A sequel may dig into what occurred to Dr. Devil after he was taken out of his lair initially of The Satan’s Rejects. Possibly the very best strategy could be a sequel that gives some flashbacks to the pre-Corpses days.
Zombie did shoot some Dr. Devil materials for The Satan’s Rejects, a scene the place the mad physician assaults a nurse performed by Rosario Dawson, nevertheless it ended up on the cutting room floor.
THE PUNISHER
Some time again, Thomas Jane talked about that Rob Zombie was within the working to direct The Punisher 2 when the challenge was arrange at Lionsgate and Jane was nonetheless hooked up to star within the follow-up to the 2004 Punisher movie. Our minds have been swimming with the chances ever since. Jane’s time as The Punisher could also be over (though you by no means know, in today the place Michael Keaton is Batman once more and Hugh Jackman is taking part in Wolverine yet another time), nevertheless it might be very attention-grabbing to see how Zombie would deal with a Punisher story.
We all know he can ship the extent of violence the viewers desires to see from the closely armed vigilante, however what kind of fashion would he convey to the movie across the character and the violence? Wouldn’t it be darkish and gritty? Neon-soaked insanity? Did Lexi Alexander already give us one thing alongside the strains of a Zombie Punisher together with her Punisher: Warfare Zone? We’ll in all probability by no means discover out, nevertheless it’s enjoyable to daydream about.
THE CROW: 2037
In 1997, it was introduced that musician Rob Zombie could be making his characteristic writing and directing debut with an addition to the Crow franchise that will have been referred to as The Crow: 2037. The story would start in “2010, when a younger boy and his mom are murdered on Halloween night time by a Satanic priest. A yr later, the boy is resurrected because the Crow. Twenty-seven years later, and unaware of his previous, he has turn out to be a bounty hunter on a collision course along with his now omnipotent killer.” What that synopsis doesn’t point out is {that a} plague has knocked the planet again into the Darkish Ages by the point 2037 rolls round, so our hero wields a sword and will get round on horseback.
An sudden combination of medieval occasions and influences from the Common Monsters films, The Crow: 2037 would have been a really distinctive entry within the franchise… so distinctive that the producers appeared to get chilly toes and determined to make a extra typical Crow film as a substitute. For some time, Zombie thought-about turning his script into an authentic movie referred to as Black Rider X, however then moved forward with Home of 1000 Corpses as a substitute. So all we will do now’s learn the The Crow: 2037 script (which is available on-line) and attempt to think about what may have been. Within the meantime, the brand new reboot of The Crow is due out in June.
WEREWOLF WOMEN OF THE SS
Werewolf Girls of the SS is a pretend trailer Zombie made for Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s sensible Grindhouse challenge, and whereas all the fake trailers are loads of enjoyable of their quick type, it might even have been wonderful to see all of them get expanded into precise options, like Rodriguez’s fake trailer Machete was. Eli Roth is at present in manufacturing on a Thanksgiving characteristic, Edgar Wright has contemplated a Don’t characteristic, and previously Zombie has requested followers if they’d be serious about seeing a Werewolf Girls of the SS characteristic. We might be!
An homage to films like Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS, Fraulein Satan, and Love Camp 7, Werewolf Girls of the SS is about throughout World Warfare II and entails Nazi mad scientists, the She-Devils of Belzac, and Fu Manchu working collectively in an try to create a military of werewolves.
TYRANNOSAURUS REX
Zombie had no intention of constructing Halloween II. He was going at hand that sequel over to Inside administrators Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury whereas he made a unique challenge for Dimension: Tyrannosaurus Rex, which was even given a 2009 launch date. He began selling the challenge with posters and concept art… however then Bustillo and Maury left Halloween II and Dimension roped Zombie into doing that film for 2009 as a substitute of Tyrannosaurus Rex. There was some hope that he would make the unique movie after Halloween II, however by the point he was carried out along with his second Michael Myers film his working relationship with Dimension had been broken past restore.
Zombie revealed little or no about what Tyrannousarus Rex would have been, however he did say it wasn’t a horror film. Evaluating it to Straight Time, Raging Bull, and a critical model of Each Which Manner However Free, he stated the film could be “about this washed-up prizefighter who’s acquired this self-destructive tendency, and he comes out of jail and the one method he is aware of learn how to survive is by combating. However his boxing profession is over so he will get caught up on this type of underground combat ring.” Idea artwork revealed that, like Clint Eastwood in Each Which Manner However Free, this prizefighter would additionally find yourself working into bother with a biker gang.
13 years later we’re nonetheless hoping to see Tyrannosaurus Rex one way or the other, as a result of Zombie making a “extremely violent ’70s motion film” a couple of washed-up prizefighter appears like a complete lot of enjoyable.
THE NAIL
A number of the idea artwork for Tyrannosaurus Rex delivered to thoughts The Nail, a comic book e book Zombie wrote with Steve Niles in 2004 that occurred to heart on a personality named Rex. So it was faulty reported that Tyrannosaurus Rex was an adaptation of The Nail and that actually caught on, regardless of Zombie and Niles each saying Tyrannosaurus Rex was a unique story. So if they’re completely different tales, meaning we have to see each Tyrannosaurus Rex and a cinematic adaptation of The Nail, as a result of The Nail was actually cool.
Mainly a souped-up model of the 1975 basic horror movie Race with the Satan, The Nail had the next synopsis: “Small-time pro-wrestler Rex Hauser (a.okay.a. The Nail) makes a residing touring the small-town wrestling circuit along with his household. Its enterprise as standard for this close-knit bunch till they unwittingly cross paths with a murderous gang of Satanic bikers. However these aren’t your run-of-the-mill satan worshipers. In actual fact, Hauser and his household simply could be up in opposition to essentially the most un-Godly evil ever recognized to man.“
The comedian was a enjoyable learn, and it might be a blast to see it delivered to life on the display screen.
BIGFOOT
Talking of Rob Zombie / Steve Niles comedian books that desperately have to be delivered to the display screen, the pair additionally made an superior “cryptid run amok” comedian e book appropriately referred to as Bigfoot in 2015. The synopsis is straightforward: “A monstrous ape-man is stomping across the woods of the Pacific Northwest, and he’s not proud of mankind.” If Bigfoot have been ever delivered to the display screen, it might simply be among the best Bigfoot films we’ve ever gotten. The Bigfoot on this story is a terrifying beast that makes a bloody mess of the people who find themselves unfortunate sufficient to cross paths with it, and we’re dying to see this creature splatter blood and guts throughout the display screen in a live-action film.
THE BLOB
The week Halloween II was launched in 2009, it was introduced that Zombie could be writing and directing one other remake, this one of many 1958 sci-fi horror basic The Blob, which already acquired an superior remake in 1988 and was a couple of gelatinous creature falling from the sky and consuming the whole lot it got here in touch with, rising bigger with each meal. Zombie instantly made it sound like he was the mistaken selection for the job when he stated his film wouldn’t be about “a purple blobby factor”, so not many individuals minded when he determined to stroll away from the challenge… However years later, idea artwork from Zombie’s deserted model of The Blob confirmed up on-line and made it seem like he had been plotting one thing fascinating.
Simply going by what’s proven within the paintings, it seems that an alien monolith would have proven up in a small city, and this mysterious object would turn out to be the centerpiece of an annual rock pageant. After 5 years, some sort of vitality begins emanating from the monolith that makes folks soften down into hideous, disgusting “blob folks”. A number of the imagery is a bit an excessive amount of like Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse film Planet Terror, nevertheless it nonetheless seems to be like Zombie’s tackle The Blob would have been entertaining and delightfully unusual. Nevertheless, we’re lastly getting one other remake of The Blob, which can be coming from the Hellraiser reboot director, David Bruckner.
BROAD STREET BULLIES
In 2012, we heard that Zombie could be branching out of the horror style with Broad Avenue Bullies, which might inform the story of “the Philadelphia Flyers hockey crew that developed from a cellar-dwelling enlargement crew right into a crew that racked up victories and penalty minutes in equal measure in the course of the Seventies.” Zombie initially stated he had secured the rights to the crew’s story, had the total help of the Flyers group, and was able to make a film that was like “Rocky meets Boogie Nights on ice”. However Broad Avenue Bullies by no means made it into manufacturing, and Zombie would later say that it was a nightmare making an attempt to get all the required rights collectively.
Other than comedies like Goon, it appears to be very tough to get a hockey film into manufacturing, as Kevin Smith additionally bumped into bother when he tried to make his personal hockey film, referred to as Hit Anyone. So we’re left wishing that we had each Hit Anyone and Broad Avenue Bullies to observe proper now. It might have been very attention-grabbing to see Zombie make a hockey film set within the Seventies.
MANSON MURDERS PROJECT
This wasn’t going to be a film and the Manson Household story has gotten an excessive amount of protection over the many years, however Zombie has been fascinated by the story since he was a child and when he began creating a restricted sequence that will “revisit the folks and occasions linked to the Manson Household homicide spree in August 1969“, he had an intriguing collaborator: the script was going to be written by American Psycho creator Bret Easton Ellis. Their intention was to “inform converging tales of individuals and occasions main as much as and after the murders, from shifting factors of view.“
On the whole, it might be simply nice if Quentin Tarantino’s As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood turned out to be the tip of Manson Household tales, however we’re left fairly curious to learn how Zombie and Ellis would have dealt with the fabric. The Manson Murders Mission was arrange at Fox in 2014, and was scrapped when NBC began airing their very own Manson-related sequence Aquarius in 2015.
RAISED EYEBROWS
Zombie made it clear in Home of 1000 Corpses and The Satan’s Rejects that he had an appreciation for the Marx brothers, so when Broad Avenue Bullies began trying troublesome in 2015 it wasn’t too shocking that he shifted over to making an attempt to make a movie based mostly on the memoir Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s Home by Steve Stoliar. This may have been “the weird story of the final years within the lifetime of Groucho Marx, informed by a younger Marx Brothers fan who spent these years as his private secretary and archivist. Along with attending to know his hero, the creator discovered himself within the orbit of Groucho’s brothers Zeppo and Gummo, Mae West, George Burns, Bob Hope, Jack Lemmon, S.J. Perelman, Steve Allen, and scores of different luminaries of stage, display screen, TV and literature. The draw back of this dream-come-true was getting near his idol because the curtain was coming down, and coping with Erin Fleming – the mercurial girl answerable for Groucho’s private {and professional} life.“
For the primary time, Zombie employed another person – Oren Moverman – to put in writing the screenplay for one among his movies. He stated he noticed this story as “Groucho’s Sundown Boulevard“, “a tragic, humorous and really darkish story of a one among Hollywood’s biggest stars last years.” However as soon as once more, he discovered it too tough to get a non-horror challenge into manufacturing. It’s a disgrace, as a result of he chooses terrific materials for his makes an attempt to step out of the style. If his model of The Munsters seems to be a pleasant comedy just like the sitcom supply materials, possibly it would open some non-horror doorways for him.
Honorable Point out: C.H.U.D.
Some initiatives Zombie has been stated to be concerned with over time have been by no means truly occurring. For instance: there was a rumor that he was engaged on an animated adaptation of the comedian e book The Hills Have Eyes: The Starting. Not true, and we’ve already seen him do the homicidal household factor a number of occasions. In 2007, a rumor emerged on-line saying that Zombie could be following his remake of Halloween with a remake of the 1984 movie C.H.U.D. It was only a joke… however not such a nasty thought. There’s something interesting concerning the considered Zombie making a film about creatures referred to as Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers, crawling out of the sewer to eat flesh.
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