Dimension Films' massively inevitable Halloween 3D now has a writer and director, in the form of Patrick Lussier. Rob Zombie is making **The Blob **next, and probably wasn't interested anyway.
Halloween 2, which still doesn't have a UK release date, was roundly trounced by The Final Destination at the box office, but that hasn't stopped the Weinsteins putting the next instalment on a fast track for a 2010 release.
Some reports last week put Steve Miner (Friday the 13th parts 2 and 3, Halloween H20) behind the camera, but that always seemed spurious. Lussier makes more sense, having been working with Dimension in one capacity or another forever, editing the Scream series and directing the DTV Dracula films. Most recently he was behind My Bloody Valentine, so he has the 3D skills to pay the bills.
And in other Weinstein horror news comes the revelation that we can expect more Children of the Corn, to be written by Scream 3's scriptwriter Ehren Kruger (if ever there was an appropriate name for a horror writer...).
The ropey 1984 Stephen King adaptation has already spawned seven sequels, but Bob Weinstein feels the franchise has more to give. The original was "a missed opportunity", he says. "If you read the short story [in King's Night Shift collection], it’s got such a strong feeling to it and there’s this religious overtone to it as well. Ehren wants to hit it hard. It’s popular in Hollywood to say you’re re-envisioning a project, but a lot of the time they’re just carbon copying the original. We are bringing something new to the story."