Is someone making a new ...
Question: Is someone making a new remake of The Blob, or am I going insane? If so, do you have any plot details? I hope they cast Shawnee Smith in the lead again — she was awesome in the '88 version.
Answer: Superproducer Scott Rudin is indeed developing another remake of the 1950s sci-fi/teen picture The Blob for Paramount Pictures. The screenwriters include House of Wax remake scripters Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes, and Joe Ballarini, who's sold several high-profile but unproduced scripts. The Blob deal was struck immediately after Revolution Studios secured the rights to remake John Carpenter's The Fog (2005); that rehash, which has already come and gone, was a world-class waste of time. There are no details about the new Blob's story and no one has been cast yet, but the tone is described as being like Men in Black, which means more action and more (intentional) comedy than either the original or the unfairly maligned 1988 remake with Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith (who's staked out her own little corner of the horror world with Saw and Saw II).
