Remember how Rob Zombie said he was done making horror movies and his next film would be a hockey film, Broad Street Bullies about the 1974 Philadelphia Flyers, which he compared to "Rocky meets Boogie Nights"? Well, he lied. That film is put on the backburner for now. That's because he pitched an idea for a new horror film and it was bought.
Speaking to 3news, Zombie compared the film to The Devil's Rejects:
“I was working on this thing called Broad Street Bullies, which was a hockey film, but that got put on the backburner because something else popped up. In such a weird way, because I’d been working on this hockey film for over two years, it took so much research and work, and I was literally sitting with someone going, ‘You know, I have this other idea…’
And I said the idea and they go, ‘We’ll make that!’ And I put together a one-line pitch, because I didn’t want to go to pitch meetings and do all that. I’d call them on the phone and go, “Here’s my idea, blah blah blah,’ and they’re like, ‘We’re in!’
So you slave over something for years and it’s still difficult, and you say some crazy thing off the top of your head and they’re like ‘Where do we sign?’. And that turned into a weird bidding war. And that became the next film. Which I don’t even want to really talk about yet because I feel like it’s a little far out.
I think it’s something fans of the other stuff will like. Probably fans of The Devil’s Rejects will enjoy the most. It’s not connected to that film but it’s more on that headspace.”
Of course, as MetalSucks points out, just so happens to be his most successful film not in the Halloween franchise, so naturally he would reference it.
