{"id":22487,"date":"2024-03-16T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T20:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=22487"},"modified":"2024-03-16T19:11:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T23:11:50","slug":"joe-dante-to-direct-little-shop-of-halloween-horrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=22487","title":{"rendered":"Joe Dante to Direct &#8216;Little Shop of Halloween Horrors&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><em><strong>Little Shop of Halloween Horrors<\/strong><\/em>, to be directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001102\/\">Joe Dante<\/a>, promises to breathe new life into the horror-comedy,<em><strong> Little Shop of Horrors<\/strong><\/em>, that was helmed by a considerably younger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000339\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Roger Corman<\/a> some 64 years ago. Dante will be directing the reboot from a script by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0351919\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Charles S. Haas<\/a>, who penned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0087363\/\"><strong><em>Gremlins 2: The New Batch<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. <br \/><br \/>Now 97, Corman has directed more than 70 films and produced more than 300 during a career spanning seven decades. Corman, who was awarded an Honorary Oscar in 2009, will be co-producing the upcoming film with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0471097\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Brad Krevoy<\/a>. In 1971, Corman was quoted as saying, &#8220;Directing is very hard and very painful. Producing is easy. I can do it without really thinking about it.\u201d<br \/><br \/>The original <em><strong>Little Shop of Horrors<\/strong><\/em>, co-starring Jack Nicholson, was made on a shoestring budget in 1960 using sets that had been used for another Corman horror flick, <em><strong>A Bucket of Blood<\/strong><\/em>. The film quickly became a cult classic and spawned Broadway and off-Broadway productions as well as a 1986 film directed by Frank Oz that starred Rick Moranis and Steve Martin. The plot focuses on a florist who harbors a carnivorous plant with a hankering for human flesh.<br \/><br \/>Joe Dante has been a longtime associate of Roger Corman, having started his own cinematic career as an apprentice of his back in the 1970s. Dante\u2019s first directing job was Corman\u2019s low-budget exploitation film <em><strong>Hollywood Boulevard<\/strong><\/em>. Besides his work for <em><strong>Gremlins<\/strong><\/em>, produced by Steven Spielberg, he is also known for directing <em><strong>The Howling, Innerspace,<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Small Soldiers<\/strong><\/em>. Dante made relatively few movies over the years, his most recent film having been <em><strong>Burying the Ex<\/strong><\/em> in 2014. It\u2019s being speculated that he may be involved in a new project involving the <em><strong>Gremlins<\/strong> <\/em>franchise.<br \/><br \/>No release date or other details about <em><strong>Little Shop of Halloween Horrors<\/strong><\/em> have yet been announced.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward\u2019s articles.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Shop of Halloween Horrors, to be directed by Joe Dante, promises to breathe new life into the horror-comedy, Little Shop of Horrors, that was helmed by a considerably younger Roger Corman some 64 years ago. Dante will be directing the reboot from a script by Charles S. Haas, who penned Gremlins 2: The New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[21143,21146,21142,4610,21141,21145,21140,21144],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Joe Dante to direct &#039;Little Shop of Halloween Horrors&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Little Shop Horror : A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=22487\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" 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