Hollywood’s been making an attempt for years now to revive Little Shop of Horrors for a brand new cinematic viewers. Final we heard, Arrowverse head Greg Berlanti was going to strive his hand at it with Billy Porter and maybe Chris Evans. That model finally received scrapped in 2022, however Hollywood’s angling to attempt to develop a brand new model of the beloved movie but once more.
As reported by Deadline, the horror-comedy movie is being rebooted, with Gremlins director Joe Dante on the helm and Roger Corman (who directed the unique 1960 movie) readily available as a co-producer. The twist? It’s a reimagining dubbed Little Store of Halloween Horrors that’s additionally being meant because the kickstart to a brand new film franchise. Dante might be working off a script written by Charles S. Haas (Gremlins 2).
The unique Little Store of Horrors, and its extra widespread 1986 musical, centered on a florist named Seymour who discovers a Venus flytrap-looking plant he finally names Audrey Jr. (or Audrey II within the musical). The plant manages to persuade Seymour to maintain feeding it individuals, and issues rapidly spiral uncontrolled from there. At time of writing, it seems like that’ll nonetheless be the overall premise of this new film, give or take some Halloween-specific plot components. What’s not clear is that if it’ll play as a straight horror-comedy like the unique or do just like the 1986 film and take the musical route.
Till the brand new model comes out, you’ll be able to watch the earlier Little Store of Horrors motion pictures on companies like Prime Video. And in case you’ve received Max, you’ll be able to watch the “Little Rock of Horrors” episode of Billy & Mandy. It’s brief, but it surely’s nonetheless fairly nice!
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