While Greg Berlanti might not have enjoyed the best luck with big screen gigs (he wrote Green Lantern and directed Life As We Know It), he's been having a lot more success on TV, especially with the DC superhero shows such as Flash and Arrow. He's giving cinema another shot, with Warner Bros. hiring him to direct a new Little Shop Of Horrors.
Though the musical version of the story – as brought to the stage by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman and developed into a 1986 movie by Frank Oz – is the most well known, Little Shop actual springs from Roger Corman's 1960 original about nerdy florist's assistant Seymour, who cultivates a plant that turns out to have a taste for human flesh and blood. Seymour has to keep the fanged flora – which he names Audrey II after the woman he has a crush on – fed, lest it turn his attention to him.
The Invention Of Lying's Matthew Robinson is writing the script for the new movie, which will once again feature tunes, though Deadline's report on this latest take doesn't mention whether it'll include all of the original music and whether it'll plump for the darker stage ending or the revised finale that was shot for the 1986 version after test audiences didn't like the downbeat finish. Marc Platt is aboard as producer, and he's been trying to get the new take on its feet since at least 2012.