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Rob Zombie Says He’s Likely Not Making More Firefly Family or ‘Munsters’ Movies
Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses celebrates its 20th anniversary this week with a brand new Blu-ray release, marking Zombie’s 20th anniversary as a filmmaker. A well-established musician by the time his debut feature was released, Zombie followed House of 1000 Corpses with films including sequels The Devil’s Rejects and 3 from Hell, remakes Halloween, Halloween II, and The Munsters, plus originals including The Lords of Salem and 31.
What’s next from Rob Zombie, you ask? Will we ever see the return of the Firefly Family in a third sequel to House of 1000 Corpses? How about a sequel to last year’s The Munsters?
Entertainment Weekly asked Zombie both of these questions in a new chat that was just published on their website this week, and he suggests neither project is in the cards.
“Probably as far as theatrical films go,” Zombie answered when asked if we’ve seen the last of the Firefly clan. “Maybe there’ll be graphic novels or other things.”
Zombie continued, “At this point, the three movies feel like they go well together. It took a lot of work to get the third one made and no one’s getting any younger. Even with the third one, Sid Haig, from the time that we started talking about the movie to the time we shot it, his health declined so severely that he went from being one of the leads to barely being able to keep him on set for an hour to work. So, yeah, I think we got in just under the wire to make a trilogy.”
As for the continuing adventures of The Munsters, Zombie suggested in his chat with EW that he “won’t” and flat out doesn’t want to make another Munsters movie with Universal.
Zombie explains, “The only reason I would ever want to is because I like making sequels. You have so little time with the first movie to develop these characters. Towards the end of the Munsters film you go, okay, now they’re all set, you can really jump in with what they’re all about. But c’est la vie.”
He continues, “The Munsters was exhausting. That was an exhausting movie to make. It took almost five years of non-stop pushing. And then, being in a foreign country, during the height of COVID, was not as much fun as you would think! [Laughs] So the whole experience was very draining.”
For now, it sounds like Zombie is focusing on his music. Head over to EW for the full interview.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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