Little Shop of Horrors

Ready to see a giant, mutant plant attempting to eat everyone it comes into contact on the screen again? Good, because Little Shop Of Horrors is apparently ready for its second trip through the remake factory. Actually, the best-known version – Frank Oz’s 1986 musical take on the story starring Rick Moranis and Steve Martin – was itself a redo of the 1960 original. And the man behind both? Producer Roger Corman, who has now apparently handed the keys to his killer plant kingdom to writer/director Declan...
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Are we due for another version of the Little Shop Of Horrors?! Now before fans of the 1986 Frank Oz version (starring Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene) start screaming blasphemy, keep in mind that that version is in fact a remake of Roger Corman's 1960 The Little Shop Of Horrors. (Which had one of Jack Nicholson's earliest screen appearances.)
Shock Till You Drop recently chatted with Wrong Turn 3 director Declan O'Brien who revealed a new Little Shop is on his upcoming slate. "I just optioned the remake rights," O'Brien tells Shock. "After I did this movie for Roger called Cyclops he was so happy he said, 'This is the best movie that's come through my doors in 20 years, so here's my catalogue, pick something else.'"  
He continues, "I have a take on it you're not going to expect. I'm taking it in a different direction, let's put it that way.

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There's this weird delusion among people who pick the bones of old Hollywood movies for living. If the movie they're trying to cash in on, be it 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or Conan the Barbarian, was based on something else before it was a movie, they can claim to be "returning to the original source material" and therefore, somehow, be more virtuous. McG is doing it to Captain Nemo, Brett Ratner is doing it to Conan, and now the guy who most recently directed the direct-to-dvd Wrong Turn 3 is doing it to Little Shop of Horrors. No, not the musical one with Rick Moranis and the singing all-girl trio. That would be unoriginal! Instead Declan O'Brien plans to ruin the story at its roots, remaking the original 1960 Roger Corman movie, which is less musical but just as goofy as the 1980s version. As O'Brien told Bloody Disgusting, "It will

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