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What If...? – Dimension / Paramount (Rob Zombie's The Blob)
A second remake of the classic 1950's sci-fi horror film The Blob has been in varying stages of development for over twenty years, with numerous writers, producers, directors, and stars — including Jon Peters, Scott Rudin, Joe Ballarini, Chad and Carey W. Hayes, Scott Kosar, James Wan, Simon West, Samuel L. Jackson, and Halle Berry — coming and going on the project. One of the great what-ifs of the development process was a version that was to have been written and directed by acclaimed rock musician and divisive neo-grindhouse horror auteur Rob Zombie, which would've taken a much darker and more radically different approach with the material. As opposed to a gelatinous alien lifeform engulfing everything it touches, Zombie's take would've been more along the lines of a zombie film, with the titular blob possessing the people that it consumes and mutating them. Zombie would also produce the project alongside frequent production partner Andy Gould, The Genre Company's Richard Saperstein and Brian Witten, and the original film's producer Jack H. Harris. No doubt Zombie would also serve as music supervisor and bring on many of his frequent collaborators, including score composer Tyler Bates, costume designer Mary E. McLeod, special make-up effects designer Wayne Toth, film editor Glenn Garland, cinematographer Brandon Trost, and cast members Richard Brake, Ken Foree, William Forsythe, Meg Foster, Sid Haig, Clint Howard, Udo Kier, Bill Moseley, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Daniel Roebuck, Danny Trejo, Dee Wallace, and Sheri Moon Zombie. Filming was set to begin in the spring of 2010 on a production budget of $30 million, which would've made it Zombie's most expensive film. However, Zombie was apprehensive about directing another remake from the start, having previously helmed the poorly received Halloween reboot duology for the now-disgraced Bob and Harvey Weinstein's Dimension Films, and he eventually walked away from the project: "I didn't feel good about the situation and I just walked away from it. My gut told me this was not a good place to be." Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?"
Music: "Maxine Meets Pearl" – Tyler Bates and Chelsea Wolfe (X)
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Music: "Maxine Meets Pearl" – Tyler Bates and Chelsea Wolfe (X)
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