Nov 8 2007Some Other Crap That Happened...
- Rob Zombie has announced plan to remake the horror cult classic C.H.U.D. As you surely remember, this won't be Zombie's first attempt at such a feat: he brought the horror of Halloween back to screens last year, and the horror of white guy dreadlocks back to scalps some time ago. [Dread Central]
- Michelle Pfeiffer will join Ashton Kutcher in Personal Effects, based on the Ricky Moody story "Mansion on the Hill." Keep an eye on him, Demi; if there's one thing Kutch loves, it's lame, televised pranks. But if there's another thing, it's old but still pretty hot ladies. [ComingSoon]
- Roman Polanski has abandoned his plans for Pompeii, opting instead for the political thriller The Ghost, about a ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister. Unless he finds a girl to statutory rape instead! [Variety]
- "Screen scream queens" (Hollywood Reporter's words, not mine) Shawnee Smith, Erica Leerhsen and AnnaLynne McCord will star in Slaughter, playing a trio of actresses inadvertently cast in a Japanese snuff film. For those uninitiated, a Japanese snuff film is when men inconspicuously grope a woman on a subway to death. [Hollywood Reporter]
- Guillermo del Toro will write, direct and produce Champions, based on a British TV series in which a team of secret government agents are rescued from a plane crash by an advanced, hidden civilization and granted superhuman powers. The project hopes to fuse several barely feasible ideas into one insanely unbelievable film. [Variety]
Reader Comments
1. Alex - November 9, 2007 3:55 AM
'Unless he finds a girl to statutory rape instead!'
Class.
2. grovberg - November 9, 2007 9:51 AM
Is it statutory when you drug her in to saying yes?
3. Mr. Bildango - November 9, 2007 10:00 AM
Let me guess: Rob Zombie's C.H.U.D.s will resemble a moderately disfigured/gruesome hilbilly family living in the sewers of a major city, killing teenagers and cult horror legends indiscriminately. This will be completely different from his moderately disfigured/gruesome hillbilly family living in Haddonfield, IL. Even *more* different than his moderately disfigured/gruesome hillbilly family living in deep south Texas.
4. Spartacus - November 9, 2007 11:15 AM
FANTASTIC!! The Champions was my favourite series when I was a youngster. Marvellous, I can't wait for Hollywood to muck it up!!
5. Tom Choad - November 9, 2007 11:29 AM
Zombie should just re-name the movie T.U.R.D.
6. sva1994 - November 11, 2007 2:13 AM
"As you surely remember, this won't be Zombie's first attempt at such a feat: he brought the horror of Halloween back to screens last year...
Um, no, he did that this year.
Hell, it was just over two months ago.
You dipshit.
7. Tom - November 11, 2007 2:22 AM
Dear Slaughter: 2006 called, it wants its greenlights back.