Little Shop of Horrors’ Reboot May Finally Sprout to Life

Hollywood’s been attempting for years now to revive Little Shop of Horrors for a model new cinematic viewers. Last we heard, Arrowverse head Greg Berlanti was going to try his hand at it with Billy Porter and maybe Chris Evans. That mannequin in the long run purchased scrapped in 2022, nonetheless Hollywood’s angling to attempt to develop a model new mannequin of the beloved film however as soon as extra.

As reported by Deadline, the horror-comedy film is being rebooted, with Gremlins director Joe Dante on the helm and Roger Corman (who directed the distinctive 1960 film) out there as a co-producer. The twist? It’s a reimagining dubbed Little Retailer of Halloween Horrors that’s moreover being meant as a result of the kickstart to a model new movie franchise. Dante will be working off a script written by Charles S. Haas (Gremlins 2).

The distinctive Little Retailer of Horrors, and its further customary 1986 musical, centered on a florist named Seymour who discovers a Venus flytrap-looking plant he lastly names Audrey Jr. (or Audrey II inside the musical). The plant manages to steer Seymour to take care of feeding it of us, and points shortly spiral uncontrolled from there. At time of writing, it looks like that’ll nonetheless be the ultimate premise of this new movie, give or take some Halloween-specific plot elements. What’s not clear is that if it’ll play as a straight horror-comedy just like the distinctive or do similar to the 1986 movie and take the musical route.

Until the model new mannequin comes out, you might watch the sooner Little Retailer of Horrors movement footage on firms like Prime Video. And for individuals who’ve purchased Max, you might watch the “Little Rock of Horrors” episode of Billy & Mandy. It’s temporary, nonetheless it’s nonetheless pretty good!

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