Little Shop Of Horrors To Be Remade Again
“Feed me, Seymour!” said the Warner Bros. bank vault, and the studio responded by moving forward on a new remake of Little Shop Of Horrors.
Little Shop has been a feature film twice: the original came out in 1960, the creation of B-movie horror king Roger Corman, and starred a young Jack Nicholson. It was then turned into a hit Broadway musical by Howard Ashman, and a remake appeared in 1986 based on the musical version. Rick Moranis played to type as a nervous nebbish who had to keep a sassy talking plant fed, and Bill Murray replaced Nicholson’s role. Then the voice of Audrey was cast as Mother Brain in the Captain N cartoon, but we don’t talk about that.
The new version sounds like it won’t be messing with expectations too much, and will be another musical. Greg Berlanti (the man behind the near-entirety of The CW’s programming slate) has been assigned as director, his first movie-directing gig since 2010’s Life As we Know It. Marc Platt is producing, and Sarah Schechter is serving as executive producer. The script is being written by Matthew Robinson.
No release window has been set yet.
[Source: Deadline]
Ammyfan
December 7, 2016 @ 11:36 pm
I'm not sure whether this is going to be a horror comedy or a straight comedy, but it sounds like a cash grab trying to get in on the musical trend. I'm porbably going to dodge this one because for every Chicago there's an Into the Woods, and second because they're never going to match the cast. Bill Murray, Rick Moranis, Steve Martin, Levi Stubbs and the rest are a hard act to beat.
Jester85
December 8, 2016 @ 7:49 am
Wonder if this one will be faithful to the original's darker ending or chicken out like the movie did?
Ironic you bring up Chicago and Into the Woods as polar opposites, considering they had the same director, but I agree with your opinion of their clashes in quality, at least the film adaptations.