Rob Zombie Confirmed for Halloween Sequel

I feel it's the worst thing any filmmaker can do. I actually got a call from my agent and they asked me if I wanted to be involved with the remake of Chain Saw. I said no f***ing way! Those movies are perfect - you're only going to make yourself look like an a**hole by remaking them. Go remake something that's a piece of s**t and make it good. Like with my movie (House of 1000 Corpses) I have elements of Chain Saw in it because I love that movie so much, but I wouldn't dare want to "remake" it. It's like a band trying to be another band. You can sound like The Beatles, but you can't be The Beatles.

The comments above are why so many fans are now up in arms over Rob Zombie selling out by doing the sequel to his remake. That said we caught up with Rob Zombie shortly after the above statement was made and he cleared up what he meant by telling us that when he did the first film it wasnt a remake;

They weren’t really proposing a remake to me necessarily. They were just proposing Halloween like "What do you think?” and I was like, "I don’t know. That’s a great movie. That’s what I think.” I didn’t really know what to tell them so I basically told them, ‘Well, that’s cool. Thanks for the offer. I’m gonna go away and think about it and see what I come up with.” I knew it was a great opportunity but I didn’t really know exactly how it was a great opportunity. That’s when I went home and thought about it and realized that the only way I wanted to do it is if it was essentially a remake because I wasn’t going to do a Halloween 9.

That would be silly. And a prequel I didn’t know if that would be something I’d really want to do either. And that’s when I thought a remake but with an hour’s worth of back story that we’d never seen before and then I started percolating on that for a while and I got an idea and went back and pitched in my head. Wayne Toth, the effects guy, we made these maquettes – one of young Michael and one of sanitarium Michael and a classic Michael and that’s where I thought it could be really something different – to create a different Michael, kind of like the Michael that escapes with the orange mask and try to bring my own stamp to this so it wasn’t just going through the same beats that already exist.

I for one happen to think that the remake that Rob Zombie did of Halloween was absolutely fantastic and I also think that the idea of him directing a sequel is not neccesarily a bad thing. Rob Zombie is not doing remakes so much as taking classics and adding his own vision to them and that to me is the only way you can do a remake or as Rob Zombie calls it 'a re-imagining' of a classic film. Rob Zombie has a ton of talent and yes its a shame its being spent on remakes when original projects of his like T-Rex sit on the backburner.