As a new remake of 50s monster flick The Blob moves ahead, reports are circulating that Samuel L. Jackson is to star...
NewsEarlier this year, we heard that Con Air director Simon West is set to head up a remake of 50s monster flick, The Blob - the first since the underrated 1988 iteration directed by Chuck Russell.
Hollywood's trade papers are now reporting that Samuel L. Jackson is set to play the lead in West's oozing remake.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jackson will play "a biochemistry professor attempting to thwart the other-worldly predator discovered deep within the earth."
This sounds like a change of pace from the 1958 film, where the blob was delivered by meteorite, or the more paranoid 80s version, where it turned out to be manmade.
In an interview with Den Of Geek earlier this year, West described his Blob movie as "more sci-fi" and "more sophisticated" than its predecessors, with hints of some classic sci-fi horror flicks thrown in for good measure.
"The blob itself will be more sophisticated, more along the lines of Alien and Predator and things like that," West told us. "Much more science-based, the way Jurassic Park made you believe you could bring back dinosaurs with a bit of DNA from a mosquito. This will be much more explained on where the blob comes from and how it works. It'll be a much more sophisticated creature - because it is a monster movie rather than a horror in that sense. It will be on an epic, cinematic scale more. It's more of an invasion movie, I suppose."
Given West's previous form with the likes of The Mechanic, Expendables 2 and Wild Card, we're still hoping that Jason Statham might make a cameo.
More on The Blob as we get it.
