Rob Zombie on board to write/direct H2

[forgottensinpwf]

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Source: Variety

Dimension Films and Rob Zombie are teaming for another chapter of "Halloween," reports Variety.

Zombie will write and direct "H2," the sequel to his 2007 reinvention of the John Carpenter horror classic. Production will begin in March and Zombie is aiming for an October release.

The new film picks up right as the first remake ended, following the aftermath of Michael Myers' murderous rampage through the eyes of the sister he hunted.

Zombie said it won't resemble the original second installment, as the "House of 1000 Corpses" helmer continues to take the franchise in different directions.

Zombie took Carpenter's original and stamped it with an original storyline that treated Myers as a clinical psychopath. The film grossed $60 million domestically in 2007.

Zombie had originally told the studio that he wanted nothing to do with a sequel. But Zombie was compelled to come back.

"I was so burned out. (But) I took a long break, made a record and I got excited again," Zombie said. "Now, we'll be hauling ass, and that's the problem making a movie called 'Halloween': If you come out Nov. 1 or after, nobody cares. If it was called anything else, I'd be fine."

[Tehboobz wants Ewa Sonnett]

Well...let's hope Rob actually learned something from his last venture into this franchise...and let's hope he at least makes a consistent film this time around.

[andrew8798]

Apparently it'll be titled H2, since Universal owns the rights to the Halloween II (or 2) name.

[Corporate H]

I'll rent it, just to see if he can do anything seriously different or compelling this time.

[Tehboobz wants Ewa Sonnett]

Dec 16, 2008 1:47:29 GMT -5 andrew8798 said:

Apparently it'll be titled H2, since Universal owns the rights to the Halloween II (or 2) name.

I can see the headlines now : "H2...or how Zombie plans on giving horror fans a hummer!"

;D

[-Lithium-]

Halloween had some flaws but the ending was awesome. Sucks that they are gonna ruin that with a sequel...

[macdaddysquid]

I like rob zombies halloween, it was good. Carpenter is a f***ing hack.

[MiLo Duck]

Dec 16, 2008 2:37:08 GMT -5 macdaddysquid said:

I like rob zombies halloween, it was good. Carpenter is a snorking hack.

;D

Hooray! Someone else who likes the Zombie remake more!



I know a lot of people put the original on a pedestal, but it made me bored since I was a kid. The remake was actually very entertaining to me.

[macdaddysquid]

I love the original as well but the new one was more interesting to me, then just a babysitter stalker. outside of halloween carpenter has like the thing and all his other movies blow

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

Dec 16, 2008 2:37:08 GMT -5 macdaddysquid said:

I like rob zombies halloween, it was good. Carpenter is a snorking hack.

In the Mouth of Madness would like to say hello.

[Welfare Willis]

Dec 16, 2008 2:37:08 GMT -5 macdaddysquid said:

I like rob zombies halloween, it was good. Carpenter is a snorking hack.

Today's Carpenter? Yes.
70s-80s Carpenter? No.

[Paul Servo]

I liked Zombie's HALLOWEEN. I am looking forward to this

[willywonka666]

Is "helmer" a word?

[Tehboobz wants Ewa Sonnett]

I respect everyone's opinions, but I have to say, in my own eyes, the remake came across as really, really schizophrenic. Like, (as I have said every time this comes up), Rob made a great, original vision, his version of the movie, for the first HALF. Then, footage leaked, or test screenings bombed or whatever, and he got scared, nervous, and decided to tank his original vision and make a straight up remake of Halloween for the second and final half of the film, and either due to time, budget or both he left the first half how it was, rather than reshooting it.

I enjoyed the first half of it, but overall, it was just too damned uneven, and had too many problems for me to like it. The original will always be the better film in my mind, but godammit Rob TRIED. I have to give him that.

[The Ichi]

Go back to music.

[amsiraK]

Dec 16, 2008 14:34:11 GMT -5 The Ichi said:

Go back to music.

This please. I'm tired of the Rob Zombie Hillbilly-palooza.

[polexia]

Tyler Mane better be coming back too...

[Tehboobz wants Ewa Sonnett]

Dec 16, 2008 14:49:47 GMT -5 polexia said:

Tyler Mane better be coming back too...

HAHAHA!

I'm actually AGAINST this, but I laugh not at your post, but because at THIS point, he kind of HAS to. I mean, either that, or Rob gets someone who's equally monstrous for the role. THAT was one of my main gripes about the remake, though.

Jason Voorhees: Engine of destruction. A freigtrain of a man, akin to Van Vader (in his prime) in size and ferocity.

Freddy Kreuger: Normal sized, kind of skinny pedophile who is more psychological than outright brutally physical.

Leatherface: Redneck behemoth that literally will go THROUGH a wall rather than around it. Again, like Jason, brawn over brains.

Michael Myers: Normal sized human, moves with almost ninja like stealth and silence. Will kill you before you even know he's there. Can be brutally physical, but prefers to kill with one or two quick hits.

Now, I think Rob confused Leatherface with Michael in the first one, because in Zombie's version, Myers was more akin to Leatherface than ANYTHING else. He rampaged around, was a hulking, mute, almost retarded brute, and lacked only a chainsaw to make the comparison complete.

[Bullhead]

I also liked Rob Zombie's Halloween. So much in fact that I bought it a second time when the 3 disc version came out. The four and a half hour documentary about the making of it is almost as good as the movie itself. So yeah....I'm interested in a sequel.

[Arturo Classico]

I guess it's cool to have a sequel except I don't think it's really necessary. I felt the remake stood on it's own merits and the only thing I didn't like was that the person playing Jamie Lee Curtis' character from the original just didn't seem strong, or interesting enough. But the origin of Micheal Myers was cool and honestly his remake was one of the better horror movies in a long time.