Little Shop Of Horrors Is Being Rebooted By A Legendary Horror-Comedy Director
BY JEREMY MATHAI/MARCH 15, 2024 3:58 PM EST
Get on board, loser! Horror/comedy is back. Recent attempts at finding mainstream-friendly horror franchises such as Disney's remake of "Haunted Mansion," or Hollywood giving "The Blob" another go, have not produced many results that hold much promise for success. But no less legendary horror directors Joe Dante and Roger Corman will team up again this time to remake "Little Shop of Horrors", making for what may well be one of the best adaptations ever conceived of "Little Shop of Horrors." Even anti-remake fans would surely agree: this seems like an excellent win/win scenario for both parties involved!
Unfortunately, not every state allows this. But in California and most other places with free public education services for high schoolers (which includes most state university systems in North America and some European ones too!), most high schools do accept students without exceptions (excepting private ones that make good investments ). So much for that plan of educating our young ones to think for themselves! Deadline announced the exciting news about this project via an exciting report: It cites that this "reimagining" aims to launch an entirely new franchise; such an endeavor might give Universal's Dark Universe another painful lesson... but not so with these filmmakers involved with this venture! Dante (best-known for his film Gremlins - which became an unofficial Letterboxd mascot) will direct this new installment, working from a script by Charles S. Haas ("Gremlins 2: The New Batch"). Corman will stay involved as producer.
Little Shop of Horrors gets a new lease on life
Roger Corman had no way of anticipating its immense legacy when he cast an unknown and unknown Jack Nicholson together for a low-budget farce about killer plants with an appetite for human blood, or its subsequent off-Broadway musical adaptation directed by Frank Oz and featuring original music composed by Alan Menken in 1986. Now over 60 years after its initial debut and almost four decades after its last installment was released in theatres (The Little Shop of Horrors: Part III), we finally receive another chapter for another generation.
Art of Farce may have fallen by the wayside in recent times (albeit, even the previous movie toned it down for wider appeal), yet that doesn't explain why Original Creator Roger Corman signed onto this latest effort alongside veteran horror veterans Joe Dante and Charles S. Haas (whose return is perhaps most surprising considering he hadn't had any writing credit since about 30 years).
No release date for "The Little Shop of Horrors" remake has been disclosed yet; but stay tuned to /Film for updates as more come in.