Samuel L. Jackson, the towering screen presence in Pulp Fiction, and most recently an utterly insane villain in Kingsman, will star in Simon West’s upcoming remake of The Blob.
Screen Daily reports Jackson will ‘play a biochemistry professor attempting to thwart the other-worldly predator discovered deep within the earth.’ The film of course follows an alien lifeform terrorizing a small town, and is based on the 1958, Steve McQueen-starrer of the same name.
Con Air director West says, “I have been waiting to work with Samuel L. Jackson my whole career. He is a unique talent in the industry, definitely one of a kind. I am so pleased that we will finally get to collaborate on this project.” The director previously talked of the film’s vision and his aim to make the normally slimy creature “more sophisticated, more along the lines of Alien and Predator and things like that 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. Itll be a much more sophisticated creature because it is a monster movie rather than a horror in that sense.”
Richard Saperstein and Brian Witten are producting alongsie original Blob producer Jack Harris, Judith Parker Harris and Tae Won Chung. The film is currently being shopped at Cannes. The Blob would only add to Jackson’s varied roster of impossible screen foes, including dinosaurs, hyperintelligent sharks, snakes mid-flight, Sith, Chitauri and Simon Gruber.
For more on The Blob, see Shock’s write-up on the 1988 version here.
