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Warner Bros. Continues to Feed the ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Remake
After years in development, Warner Bros. Pictures is moving forward with a new incarnation of Little Shop of Horrors, with Greg Berlanti set to direct and Matthew Robinson writing the script, Deadline is reporting.
This one will be a musical, a fresh version of the 30-year old Frank Oz-directed film that starred Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, and Steven Martin. That remake was based on the Roger Corman-directed 1960 low budget sci-fi campy tale about a clumsy young man who raises a plant, discovers it is carnivorous, and kills to keep it fed.
The 1986 Little Shop of Horrors is an all-time great, but let’s not forget that it too was a remake proving that not all remakes are bad. With modern effects it will be interesting to see a fresh take, although nothing will ever ever top the puppetry in Oz’s masterpiece.
This reboot has been in the works for quite some time, in fact, as back in 2012 Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises) was in talks to play Seymour, the nerdy florist who is forced to feed the beast in order to keep his fame and popularity rising.
Marc Platt (Drive) is still producing.
Berlanti last directed the 2010 comedy Life As We Know It. More recently, he and his Warner Bros-based Berlanti Productions have been busy spearheading six TV series, with Supergirl, Blindspot, The Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, and the upcoming Riverdale.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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