ROB ZOMBIE Not Looking To Make Straight Remake Of 'Halloween'

June 21, 2006

Launch Radio Networks reports: Rob Zombie recently announced that he will direct a new version of the classic 1978 horror film, "Halloween", but except for saying that it wouldn't be a sequel, he left the details a little vague. Would the movie then be a prequel or a straight remake? Zombie told Launch that his "Halloween" will be a little bit of both. "I basically went back and just came up with the idea of basically — not essentially a remake, but a very extended prequel sort of combined with an update, say, of the first film," he said. "You're starting from scratch but in sort of a more detailed way. That's the way I thought it would be exciting for fans of the original, because it's not just the same old thing, and it would be exciting for people that never saw the original."

The original "Halloween" was directed by John Carpenter and followed a masked murderer named Michael Myers who comes back to his hometown to begin a new killing spree decades after being committed to an asylum.

Zombie said that other characters from the original, in addition to Myers, would appear in his script, which is in its early stages.

Production on the film could begin later this year, with an October 2007 release planned.

Zombie will kick off his "American Witch Across America" tour on June 30 in El Paso, Texas, and will begin a co-headlining trek with GODSMACK on August 25 in Dallas.

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