According to Variety, Paramount Pictures and producer Scott Rudin will remake the classic Sci-Fi movie "The Blob". Paramount is picking the project up from Warner Brothers, where the film's original producer, Jack Harris, set it up.
The movie centers on a jelly-like substance that crashes from space and grows as it consumes every human in its path.
The original movie from the year 1958 launched the career of Steve McQueen. It also had a sequel called "Beware! The Blob", also known as "Son of (the) Blob", which was made in 1972.
"The Blob" already had a remake in 1988. The script was writen by Frank Darabont and Chuck Russell, who also directed. But for the new remake, no writer has yet been set.
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Here's something interesting:
Barker To Pen Hellraiser Remake
Clive Barker said on his official Web site that The Weinstein Co. has asked him and he has agreed to write a remake of his 1987 horror film Hellraiser, but that he's not interested in directing it. "They're going to remake Hellraiser 1 with a lot more money, and they've invited me to write it—the invitation came from Bob Weinstein—which I am going to do, on the basis that if I don't do it, it will be done in some way that I probably won't like!" Barker wrote. "It's only that one that I really, really, really care about in terms of its remake value—and it'll be kind of fun to have the extra money to do the effects and all that cool stuff."
The first Hellraiser is the only one of the long-running horror franchise that Barker both wrote and directed. "So it puts me in the situation of writing both the beginning and the end of Pinhead at the same time—'In my end is my beginning.' I'm not in the middle, as it were," Barker wrote. "I'm leaving out his middle age. I'm just dealing with his beginning and his end."
Barker added: "I'm excited about it—actually it'll be kinda cool to revisit it once and see if there are things we can do to it which will make it significantly better. ... I wouldn't wish to direct—I only want to write and be a part of the producing team. I wouldn't want to revisit something that I did as a director, something that I did all those years ago: That would be too, in a way, painful—not painful, but weird, difficult, strange. ... I am very happy at the idea of having some more money for the cool stuff—I don't know how much more money, but it's got to be more than the $900,000 that we had the first time!"
AND:
Birds Remake Clarified
Brad Fuller, an executive with Platinum Dunes, told the Bloody-Disgusting.com Web site that the production company is still developing The Birds, a movie based on Daphne du Maurier's short story, which was also the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 thriller film.
"We are considering remaking The Birds, but our remake is not based on the Hitchcock film," Fuller told the site. "It is based on the Daphne du Maurier short story. So while the concept of birds attacking will be the same, the plot is totally different from Hitchcock's film. We are currently in the process of developing the script."
In Hitchcock's film, birds mysteriously and inexplicably attack the California town of Bodega Bay and its inhabitants, including stars Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren.
Du Maurier's story, by contrast, was set in Cornwall in the United Kingdom and tells a story of birds' becoming hostile after a harsh winter with little food. She was said to have been unhappy with Hitchcock's film version.