A reimagining of horror-classic The Blob is bubbling away at Warner Bros., and they’ve tasked Hellraiser and The Night House filmmaker David Bruckner with writing and directing the film.
According to The Wrap, Bruckner will bring the amorphous shape to the big-screen for a third time. The original was released in 1958 and featured Steve McQueen in his first leading-man role. It was remade in 1972 by Larry Hagman as Beware! The Blob (also known as Son of Blob), and then Chuck Russell (Eraser) directed the most recent version of The Blob with the 1988 video-store ever-present, that starred Shawnee Smith (SAW X) and Kevin Dillon (Entourage).
There have been a few attempts to bring The Blob back since then, with Rob Zombie developing his own version back in 2009, while Simon West (Con Air) was attached to direct a reboot in 2015, which would have starred Samuel L. Jackson as a bio-chemistry professor attempting to stop the monster.
While there no plot details yet, all iterations of the sci-fi classic has featured mysterious gluey alien life-form that bubbles and oozes its way across small-town America, consuming anything it comes in contact with.
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