Rob Zombie has stated that for each one movie venture of his that strikes ahead, there are 5 potential tasks that fall by the wayside. We haven’t heard of fairly that many unmade Rob Zombie motion pictures, however we’ve got heard of a number of through the years that by no means received off the bottom… and sadly, most of them sounded fairly fascinating. Somewhat 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 need 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 Motion pictures 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 motion pictures 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 fascinating story that focuses on the weird character of Dr. Devil. A prequel set earlier than Home of 1000 Corpses may present how Dr. Devil received 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 firstly of The Satan’s Rejects. Perhaps the most effective method can 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, but it surely ended up on the reducing room flooring.
THE PUNISHER
Some time again, Thomas Jane talked about that Rob Zombie was within the working to direct The Punisher 2 when the venture 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 another time), but it surely might be very fascinating 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 deliver 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 traces of a Zombie Punisher together with her Punisher: Conflict Zone? We’ll most likely by no means discover out, but it surely’s enjoyable to daydream about.
THE CROW: 2037
In 1997, it was introduced that musician Rob Zombie can be making his characteristic writing and directing debut with an addition to the Crow franchise that might have been referred to as The Crow: 2037. The story would start in “2010, when a young boy and his mother are murdered on Halloween night by a Satanic priest. A year later, the boy is resurrected as the Crow. Twenty-seven years later, and unaware of his past, he has become a bounty hunter on a collision course with his now all-powerful 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 motion pictures, The Crow: 2037 would have been a really distinctive entry within the franchise… so distinctive that the producers appeared to get chilly ft and determined to make a extra typical Crow film as an alternative. For some time, Zombie thought-about turning his script into an unique movie referred to as Black Rider X, however then moved forward with Home of 1000 Corpses as an alternative. So all we will do now could be learn the The Crow: 2037 script (which is available on-line) and attempt to think about what may have been. Within the meantime, the 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 venture, and whereas the entire fake trailers are a number of enjoyable of their quick kind, 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 presently in manufacturing on a Thanksgiving characteristic, Edgar Wright has contemplated a Don’t characteristic, and prior to now Zombie has requested followers if they’d be desirous about seeing a Werewolf Girls of the SS characteristic. We’d be!
An homage to motion pictures like Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS, Fraulein Satan, and Love Camp 7, Werewolf Girls of the SS is ready throughout World Conflict II and entails Nazi mad scientists, the She-Devils of Belzac, and Fu Manchu working collectively in an try and create a military of werewolves.
TYRANNOSAURUS REX
Zombie had no intention of creating Halloween II. He was going handy that sequel over to Inside administrators Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury whereas he made a special venture for Dimension: Tyrannosaurus Rex, which was even given a 2009 launch date. He began selling the venture with posters and idea artwork… however then Bustillo and Maury left Halloween II and Dimension roped Zombie into doing that film for 2009 as an alternative of Tyrannosaurus Rex. There was some hope that he would make the unique movie after Halloween II, however by the point he was performed 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 Method However Free, he stated the film can be “about this washed-up prizefighter who’s got this self-destructive tendency, and he comes out of prison and the only way he knows how to survive is by fighting. But his boxing career is over so he gets caught up in this sort of underground fight ring.” Idea artwork revealed that, like Clint Eastwood in Each Which Method However Free, this prizefighter would additionally find yourself working into hassle with a biker gang.
13 years later we’re nonetheless hoping to see Tyrannosaurus Rex by some means, as a result of Zombie making a “incredibly violent ’70s action movie” a few washed-up prizefighter feels like a complete lot of enjoyable.
THE NAIL
A few of the idea artwork for Tyrannosaurus Rex dropped at thoughts The Nail, a comic book e-book Zombie wrote with Steve Niles in 2004 that occurred to middle on a personality named Rex. So it was faulty reported that Tyrannosaurus Rex was an adaptation of The Nail and that basically caught on, regardless of Zombie and Niles each saying Tyrannosaurus Rex was a special story. So if they’re totally different tales, which means 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 typical 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. Actually, Hauser and his household simply is perhaps up towards probably the most un-Godly evil ever identified to man.“
The comedian was a enjoyable learn, and it might be a blast to see it dropped at life on the display.
BIGFOOT
Talking of Rob Zombie / Steve Niles comedian books that desperately should be dropped at the display, 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 around the woods of the Pacific Northwest, and he’s not happy with mankind.” If Bigfoot had been ever dropped at the display, it might simply be among the best Bigfoot motion pictures 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 in a live-action film.
THE BLOB
The week Halloween II was launched in 2009, it was introduced that Zombie can 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 few gelatinous creature falling from the sky and consuming every thing it got here involved with, rising bigger with each meal. Zombie instantly made it sound like he was the incorrect selection for the job when he stated his film wouldn’t be about “a red blobby thing”, so not many individuals minded when he determined to stroll away from the venture… 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 art work, it seems that an alien monolith would have proven up in a small city, and this mysterious object would change into the centerpiece of an annual rock competition. After 5 years, some type of vitality begins emanating from the monolith that makes folks soften down into hideous, disgusting “blob people”. A few of the imagery is a bit an excessive amount of like Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse film Planet Terror, but it surely nonetheless seems to be like Zombie’s tackle The Blob would have been entertaining and delightfully unusual. Nonetheless, we’re lastly getting one other remake of The Blob, which shall be coming from the Hellraiser reboot director, David Bruckner.
BROAD STREET BULLIES
In 2012, we heard that Zombie can be branching out of the horror style with Broad Road Bullies, which might inform the story of “the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team that evolved from a cellar-dwelling expansion team into a team that racked up victories and penalty minutes in equal measure during the 1970s.” Zombie initially stated he had secured the rights to the workforce’s story, had the complete help of the Flyers group, and was able to make a film that was like “Rocky meets Boogie Nights on ice”. However Broad Road Bullies by no means made it into manufacturing, and Zombie would later say that it was a nightmare attempting to get all the required rights collectively.
Except for comedies like Goon, it appears to be very tough to get a hockey film into manufacturing, as Kevin Smith additionally bumped into hassle 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 Road Bullies to look at proper now. It will have been very fascinating to see Zombie make a hockey film set within the Nineteen 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 a long time, however Zombie has been fascinated by the story since he was a child and when he began growing a restricted sequence that might “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 writer Bret Easton Ellis. Their purpose was to “inform converging tales of individuals and occasions main as much as and after the murders, from shifting factors of view.“
Generally, it might be simply fantastic if Quentin Tarantino’s As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood turned out to be the top 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 Road Bullies began wanting troublesome in 2015 it wasn’t too stunning that he shifted over to attempting to make a movie primarily based on the memoir Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s Home by Steve Stoliar. This could have been “the weird story of the final years within the lifetime of Groucho Marx, instructed by a younger Marx Brothers fan who spent these years as his private secretary and archivist. Along with attending to know his hero, the writer 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, 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 in command of Groucho’s private {and professional} life.“
For the primary time, Zombie employed another person – Oren Moverman – to put in writing the screenplay for one in every of his movies. He stated he noticed this story as “Groucho’s Sunset Boulevard“, “a sad, funny and very dark tale of a one of Hollywood’s greatest stars final years.” However as soon as once more, he discovered it too tough to get a non-horror venture 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 should open some non-horror doorways for him.
Honorable Point out: C.H.U.D.
Some tasks Zombie has been stated to be concerned with through the years had been by no means really taking place. 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 can 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 foul concept. There’s something interesting in regards to the considered Zombie making a film about creatures referred to as Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers, crawling out of the sewer to devour flesh.
