Rob Zombie To Remake THE BLOB Without ' ...a big red blobby thing' !!

Merrick here...
Quint mentioned this in his HALLOWEEN 2 review (HERE), but this news seemed worthy of its own article... Rob Zombie is mounting a remake of THE BLOB.

"My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing -- that's the first thing I want to change," Zombie said. "That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now."

...says Variety HERE. Presumably, Rob means the film will use a Blob-like creature...perhaps one that stretches and shape shifts in a scary, unpredictable, rapid fashion?...instead of the Jell-O tsunami seen in previous iterations of the concept. Otherwise, why call this THE BLOB? Zombie's BLOB will shoot for the $30 million (ish) budget model successfully utilized by CLOVERFIELD and DISTRICT 9. The original 1958 iteration of this story starred Steve McQueen:
The title was revisited in 1988 by Chuck Russell (ERASER, the forthcoming T.J. HOOKER movie).