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Rob Zombie Takes A Break From Horror To Make A Hockey Movie!!
The Kidd here...
Rob Zombie isn't abandoning THE LORDS OF SALEM, which he's currently finishing up, but, for his next project, Zombie will be leaving the horror genre altogether to write, direct and produce BROAD STREET BULLIES, a biopic of sorts on the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers, known as much for their back-to-back Stanley Cup Championships as their intimidating play. In fact, it was that brutality on the ice which led to the legendary story of their defeat the Soviet Union's Central Red Army team in an exhibition after the Soviets left the ice midway through the first period in protest of the Flyers' physical style of play.
Deadline reports that Zombie managed to secure the rights to the team's story and has the full support of the Philadelphia Flyers organization moving forward, viewing it as some sort of ROCKY meets BOOGIE NIGHTS mix, due to the eclectic collection of characters on the team and their blue collar nature on the ice.
This is really where we'll see what Zombie has in him as a director, as he escapes the comfort zone he's built for himself in horror. Even still, his horror films have produced mixed results with the HALLOWEENs not seen so favorably, while THE DEVIL'S REJECTS easily ranks as his best and HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES a bit of a mixed bag. He could have easily just stuck to what he knows, but I commend Zombie for taking on the challenge of doing a hockey movie, something you wouldn't have expected from him.
Now who's ready to make the story of the 1970s Oakland Raiders...?
-Billy Donnelly
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Motherfucking fuck! You fucking cocksucking fuckers! Fuck you! Fuck motherfuck! FUCK!!! That's an excerpt from the script.
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June 20, 2012, 10:20 a.m. CST
Sounds like a great subject for a movie. Not convinced about zombie, but i'll reserve judgement.
by Waka_Flocka
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To be sure ... So ... where does that leave us on the Freey vs Jason remake?
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known as much for their back-to-back Stanley Cup Championships as their intimidating play should read... known as much for their intimidating play as their back-to-back Stanley Cup Championships. The intimidating play is the subject, correct? Oh I give up.
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I haven't necessarily liked anything he's done, but I do believe he has some real potential. Ice Soccer definitely isn't my thing, but I'll check it out.
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there certainly were a lot of interesting characters on that team! I loved Bobby Clarke as a kid (I liked his toothless grin) also they have one of the best crests (logos) in sports. All this coming from a fan of the Edmonton Oilers... If you are interested in getting more background on this team I highly recommend checking out the Broad Street Bullies Documentary (2010).
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any guesses?
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June 20, 2012, 10:38 a.m. CST
Could there be a director with more gaudy and obnoxious a style than Rob Zombie?
by Christian Sylvain
I know that the dude has this hardcore rock background, but for god's sake, there is a way to make a film without tits, gore, and f-nukes thrown at the screen every five fucking seconds. The guy has the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Here's hoping that he can break away from his usual bullshit with this straightforward biopic.
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Some other best logos ... Maple Leafs ... Red Wings ... Blackhawks
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June 20, 2012, 10:44 a.m. CST
I think this is an oddly good match of material and director.
by Ironhelix
I still find it strange that Zombie even makes films. I used to go see him perform with White Zombie back in the early 90's.
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HBO had a documentary about the Broad STreet Bullies a few years back that was really entertaining. I also think that Zombie has potential should he pull back on the garish imagery and work from a good script. This has potential. Although wasnt Slapshot a movie about a rowdy hockey team from the 1970's? Hopefully, he can avoid that comparison.
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June 20, 2012, 10:48 a.m. CST
Broadstreet Bullies please give me the 90s Cowboys! Now that's cinema worthy
by Wcwlkr
You couldn't tell me with a team with The Playmaker Michael Irvin, Charles Haley, and the Warrior Emitt Smith, wouldn't be great to see. Add in Prime Time Deion Sanders, that's entertainment of itself.
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June 20, 2012, 11:02 a.m. CST
shouldn't it be called Ladies of Salem if it's about witches?
by Cobb05
I'm not convinced that Zombie is a good director. House of 1000 Corpses was a mess of a movie. I liked The Devil's Rejects, but the plot was very weak. It relied heavily on the chatacters just being crazy. Halloween 1 & 2 sucked. For someone who loved Halloween, he totally didn't get what the original was about. Michael Meyers wasn't a stereotypical serial killer who followed the serial killer check list of killing animals and all that bullshit. He was evil. There was no getting in his head and figuring out what made him do it. That weakened his character and made him just a crazy dude. Loomis in JC's version knows that you can't reason with Michael. He's scared of him. And Zombie using the mother as some angel to Michael was just pissing on the original. I saw that Lords of Salem footage that's on youtube. It looks really cheaply made. So my guess is it's not heavy on plot either. I have no idea if Zombie can pull off a movie with a plot and real characters. Who knows, maybe he'll pull it off. Who knew he was a hockey fan?
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June 20, 2012, 11:02 a.m. CST
shouldn't it be called Ladies of Salem if it's about witches?
by Cobb05
I'm not convinced that Zombie is a good director. House of 1000 Corpses was a mess of a movie. I liked The Devil's Rejects, but the plot was very weak. It relied heavily on the chatacters just being crazy. Halloween 1 & 2 sucked. For someone who loved Halloween, he totally didn't get what the original was about. Michael Meyers wasn't a stereotypical serial killer who followed the serial killer check list of killing animals and all that bullshit. He was evil. There was no getting in his head and figuring out what made him do it. That weakened his character and made him just a crazy dude. Loomis in JC's version knows that you can't reason with Michael. He's scared of him. And Zombie using the mother as some angel to Michael was just pissing on the original. I saw that Lords of Salem footage that's on youtube. It looks really cheaply made. So my guess is it's not heavy on plot either. I have no idea if Zombie can pull off a movie with a plot and real characters. Who knows, maybe he'll pull it off. Who knew he was a hockey fan?
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Now this is a story i want to see. This is not horror, its fear....... that is what other teams where to the flyers of the 70's. They were afraid, because the flyers where mean. They would break your fucking ankle and not think twice about it. Hockey players are bullies, and half the game is all about intimidation. This will be the story of fear, in the same vein of horror. Hockey is a cross of ballet and Vietnam, fighting and checking hard is a part of the culture. Toughness and holding on is the only way you win. This will be entertaining indeed. Go Kings!
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Rob Cummings is only the sum of his influences. I'm sure his hockey film will feel like a horror director went off and made slapshot2. He's going to infuse it will degraded film quality and saturated colors while hipster actors get off on wearing bell bottoms.
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The Olga Korbut Story...starring...Elle Fanning? I'll see the Flyers movie just to see Zombie stretch as a director.
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"Rob Zamboni?" Fucking LOL! :)
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I guess that comes with old age and marriage though.
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Makes a change from making hacky movies.
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June 20, 2012, 11:52 a.m. CST
"shouldn't it be called Ladies of Salem if it's about witches?"
by buggerbugger
The term 'witch' originally applied to both men and women. Conal Cochran is the witch of 'Halloween 3's extended title, for instance. However, the witches of Zombie's latest crayon scrawlings **are** supposed to be women. I remember thinking that the synopsis was a confusing read. Witches executed. The Lords of Salem send a magic record that will resurrect the Lords of Satan from death. The Lords are returning for revenge. So... the Lords are the women? Or the Lords are the inquisitors who put the witches on trial? If so, why are they using witchcraft to come back to life? I thought witchcraft was bad? And just how are they doing this while they're still dead anyway? Have they got a DeLorean?
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To conquer pussy, you must **become** pussy.
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So sad...Richard Lynch has passed away... He was in everything in the 70s-80s from Battlestar (original) to Buck Rogers to A-Team to Knight Rider to Six Million, etc... awesome go-to-guy for a great, intimidating bad guy...
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June 20, 2012, 1:59 p.m. CST
America's favorite headbanging homeless horror hipster
by Cassius_Crackhead
So very very tired of this guy's shtick. Somebody should eat that guy's face off. And then his airhead wife could donate part of her ass to help with the reconstructive facial surgery and then Werner Herzog could film the whole thing as a documentary and it could play out of competition at Cannes.
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look it up in the dicktionary and you'll see. yeah i don't care that that doesn't make any sense. so's your face.
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June 20, 2012, 2:24 p.m. CST
Uh, yeah Werewomen of the SS will never see the light of day, yet we get a fucking Hockey movie?!?
by Stalkeye
Never knew hockey was so...popular. *scoffs*
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Take all the time you need :)
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that makes more sense than what he's doing now b/c his interpetation of Halloween sucks Demon Dick. Well, at least i have all WZ's songs including the unrealesed material like let Sleeping Corpes Lie. "Man who laughs sounds like a cool intro title for a James Bond film".
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June 20, 2012, 2:31 p.m. CST
Rob, lees Movies and more songs like Supercharger Heaven, ya Big dummy!
by Stalkeye
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Rebels found by Empire and evacuate their base after being attacked = Firefly's found by police and flee after their house is raided. Han Solo and co. hide out in a cave inside an asteroid = Firefly's hide in a motel room. Darth Vader hires bounty hunters to assist in the hunt for the Millenniun Falcon = Sheriff Rydell hires two bounty hunters to track the Firefly's. Han Solo seeks shelter from old friend, Lando, in Cloud City, but is betrayed by Lando and captured by Boba Fett and Darth Vader = The Firefly's seek shelter in an old friend's whorehouse, only to be betrayed by the friend and captured by the two bounty hunters and Rydell. Lando has a change of heart and decides to save Leia and co. = Friend of the Firefly's returns to help free the Firefly's. Everything between these events are different, as well as the ending. But it's pretty obvious Rob Zombie was watching Empire Strikes Back when he wrote The Devil's Rejects. Hell, he even has dialogue about C-3PO in the movie!
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Not just a great hockey film but a great film in general. Why isn't Sean William Scott or the movie itself getting a ton of awards??
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I commend the kidd on his posting frequency, but some of his article's have been a little lacking. He's starting to come into his own now. Good for you, Billy. This project sounds interesting, to....er, I mean "too."
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White Zombie was a pretty good band. Once he went out on his own he has sucked balls forever and a day. His movies all sucked balls.
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Agreed! Goon was awesome. Didn't expect to like it that much. Took me by surprise.
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Oh, and fuck the Devils.
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I am only 24, so I wasn't even remotely close to being alive for the heyday of the Bullies, but my father had season tickets and skipped school to attend the Cup parade on Broad and Pattison. He raised me on the stories of Clarkey, The Hammer, Moose and Bernie... and I've since grown up with a great appreciation for the stylistic and strategic beauty of the game of hockey--all the while wishing I was alive for the days when it was just mutton-chopped, helmet-less thugs exercising a game of intimidation. Zombie has been kind of hit-and-miss for me, but this clearly seems to settle into his niche. The guy has a knack for the 70s aesthetic, and 1974 was a time in American culture that should be ripe for some thematic wringing, on and off of the ice. The greatest asset that Zombie could be afforded is a great script, because there were so many great characters on that roster(and even the front office) that it could be a field day for an ensemble cast if written properly. I got my filmic jollies from seeing Vince Papale's story up on the big screen with "Invincible," but I'm even more excited for this movie now.
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Who was it? John Dillinger, Lizzie Borden and The the 1976 Flyers lineup! LOL.
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That's all the work he needs to improve on.
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His horror movies are completely terrible! Halloween was utter garage and nasty in such a mean spirited way. Awful.
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June 20, 2012, 4:18 p.m. CST
he wants to be taken seriously, because House of 1000 Corpses, Devil's Rejects and the Halloween reboots were such quality works of cinema...
by Squinty CGI Flynn
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Half the team was on coke and they slipped some to Buckner in game 6 of the world series.
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No brainer.
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June 20, 2012, 6:56 p.m. CST
The 70's Oakland Raiders would be FAR more interesting, and not just because the NFL is a better league.
by MCVamp
The film covers the rise of the AFL, the merger with the NFL, the emergence of the Raiders as the most hated team of the 70's, ending with the "end of an era" as the team relocates to L.A. Ed O'Neill as Al Davis Phillip Seymour Hoffman as John Madden Ryan Gosling as Ken Stabler Forest Whitaker as Art Shell Idris Elba as Jack Tatum (I have faith he could pull it off.)
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June 20, 2012, 7:02 p.m. CST
Four movies, two of them remakes (hell three if we count House as Texas Chainsaw 2)...
by GilbertRSmith
...And everyone's already passing a final verdict. Devil's Rejects was pretty good except for an ending that just kind of wandered aimlessly until a fun closing scene. House was gaudy in a fun way and I haven't bothered with the Halloween remakes because what kind of asshole goes to see those. If you hate remakes so much, stop throwing money at them. Anyways, even Kubrick's first few movies were shit. It's impossible to really judge any artist with such finality so early in their career.
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Sick, twisted and lovely. Absolutely fantastic. It'll be hard for him to top that. His HALLOWEEN remake is a total mess, but I thought Rob's HALLOWEEN II is unfairly maligned. It's the first HALLOWEEN movie since HALLOWEEN III to really do something unique and different (and no, those sequels with the Thorn Cult are not unique).
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HURRY UP IT'S HALLOWEEN HALLOWEEN HALLOWEEN HURRY UP IT'S HALLOWEEN SILVER SHAMROCK!
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June 20, 2012, 8:11 p.m. CST
Be interesting to see how he shoe horns a Fangoria convention list into this one.
by replica
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There. Fixed.
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June 20, 2012, 9:30 p.m. CST
Like when Emilio Estevez stopped being a real actor to do The Mighty Ducks
by Eyegore
The Devil's Rejects was a long time ago.
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June 20, 2012, 9:38 p.m. CST
For someone so enamored with horror films and serial killers and goofy gory ghoulish bullshit Robert Cummings sure is a dreadful horror filmmaker
by Russell
Devil's Rejects has a few cool moments but everything else he makes is like throwing fecal matter in the air and pointing the camera at it. Maybe if Broad Street Bullies turns out less than deplorable he should consider giving up on the piss-poor attempts at horror films and just be a more mainstream director. Lords of Salem sounds and looks absolutely retarded as well.
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June 20, 2012, 9:39 p.m. CST
Oh and leave your fucking moronic wife out of this one PLEASE
by Russell
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June 20, 2012, 10:17 p.m. CST
I have absolutley NO FAITH in Rob Zombie's ability to make a Flyers hockey movie and if he does I guarantee you that it will curse the Flyers forever more.
by uberfreak
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I can't believe the articles you put up sometimes. So many goddamned typos and sentences that don't make fucking sense.
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June 21, 2012, 7:04 a.m. CST
"For someone so enamored with horror films [...] Robert Cummings sure is a dreadful horror filmmaker"
by buggerbugger
Yup. This is a guy who, thinking it was silly that Michael Myers knew how to drive, had the guy shuffle-walk 150 miles home in a night, then carry a huge fucking gravestone around town because he didn't have a car-boot to place it in. Oh, and he came up with an awesome reason why Michael Myers decided to wear a mask on Halloween, because just wearing a mask on Halloween made no logical sense in and of itself. To quote Anthony Hopkins in 'The Elephant Man': "The man's a complete idiot."
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It should say "Rob Zombie takes a break from fucking-up horror movies to begin fucking-up a Hockey movie, instead".
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June 21, 2012, 11:23 a.m. CST
Also, how are hockey movies so much better than the actual sport?
by kidicarus
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June 21, 2012, 12:59 p.m. CST
@mcvamp, that's a heck of a great cast list for a Raiders film.
by kevred
Well done. HBO, get on that right away, I'd say.
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Slapshot is THE HOCKEY MOVIE. It is the Citizen Kane of hockey movies. The second best hockey movie is Miracle about the 1980s US Olympic hockey team. Then GOON. I love the idea of a Flyers hockey movie. Could be great but not so sure about Zombie....
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We don't have George Burns around to play Al Davis, so it couldn't work. The Crypt Keeper also retired from acting.
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if it is horror, hockey or Ms. Zombie naked.
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