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Rob Zombie’s ’31’ Takes Place In 1975, and More…
Last Friday Rob Zombie sat down to do a live stream with his fans to answer all questions regarding 31, his crowd-sourced Halloween project that you can donate to by clicking here.
This was their chance to ask Zombie anyting they wanted, and they failed, miserably.
I sat through half of the 60-minute conversation and was able to compile a few interesting tid-bits, before I lost my mind listening to answers to wasted questions like, “Will this be live action?” to “Will you ever do a prequel to ‘The Devil’s Rejects?” to which Zombie replied, “Yeah, it’s called ‘House of 1,000 Corpses.’ “
What we now know about 31 is that it takes place on Halloween night in 1975. Therefore, it’s a period piece about five random people kidnapped on the five days leading up to Halloween and held hostage in a place called Murder World. While trapped inside this man-made Hell they must fight to survive playing the most violent game known to man… a game called 31.
He says it will probably more gory and crazier than ever. The inspiration came as he was walking around his Great American Nightmare haunt and seeing filthy clowns with chainsaws chasing people around.
Filming will happen in the New Year as most of Hollywood shuts down during the holidays.
It won’t resemble any of his previous films, but expects it to be visually rich because it’s a haloiday film.
It will probably be NC-17, and then eventually become R after going back and forth with the MPAA.
He would love to work with David Patrick Kelly from The Warriors, although casting isn’t underway yet.
Expect a synth score, although he’s yet to try it out with the picture to see if it works.
There will also be a full-length documentary, which he admits to filming for all of his projects, while also revealing the reason we never see them is because the studios don’t want to spend money on developing the extra features of home video releases.
Two other interesting bits is that Zombie doesn’t try and meet fans expectations – because everyone’s opinions are different – therefore he does what he thinks would make it good. He makes his movie. And when asked about his return to horror, when he previously stated he was retiring from horror, he reveals that he’s burnt out when he finishes a project. It’s in his nature to go to the extreme and say “never again,” but he eventually gets bored and returns.
There you have it, everything from the live stream conversation with Rob Zombie.
Get involved here, where you can also watch the replay of the live stream (after you’ve backed the project).
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008)
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