Children of the Corn Gets Remade AGAIN, and Halloween 3D Moves on Without Zombie

By now you already know that the Weinstein Company have announced that a third entry in their rebooted “Halloween” franchise will be hitting screens as soon as next Summer without the first two movie’s writer/director, Rob Zombie, but with the added glamour of 3D. Cause, you know, everyone’s doing it, so why not? So the question is, who will replace Zombie, and soon?

According to Variety, the Weinstein Company head honchos are currently in talks with “My Bloody Valentine 3D” director Patrick Lussier (the “Dracula 2000″ franchise) to take over the reins. Lussier is one busy man, as he’s already attached to drive Nicolas Cage around in another 3D adventure, “Drive Angry”.

Meanwhile, the Weinstein Company is also buy setting up another rebooted franchise. They’ve assigned writer Ehren Kruger (one of the gazillion writers on “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”) to adapt yet another version of the Stephen King short story “Children of the Corn”. If you’re keeping count at home, this will actually be the second remake of the King short story, with the first one due out on the Sy Fy Channel sometime in September starring David Anders (Heroes) and Kandyse McClure (of Battlestar Galactica fame).

The original 1984 version of “Children of the Corn” (the franchise has since gone on to spawn an obscene amount of direct-to-DVD sequels, shockingly all of it without the involvement of direct-to-DVD horror sequel king Lussier) starred Linda Hamilton and Peter Horton as a couple who stumbles across a Nebraska town where the children have killed the adults and now worships an evil force that resides in the corn fields surrounding the town. In their remake, the Weinsteins have given Kruger the mandate to hit the “religious overtones” of the short story hard, whatever that means.