Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Develop And Star In The Remake Of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

[Brian Massey]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who has developed quite a resume at Warner Bros. after key turns in Inception and this summer's The Dark Knight Rises, is now eyeing up another film to bring home to the studio.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor is now developing a remake of Little Shop of Horrors for Warner Bros. in which he'll play the role of Seymour, the nerdy florist who is forced to feed the beast in order to keep his fame and popularity rising.

Marc Platt, the producer behind Broadway’s Wicked and such films as Wanted and Legally Blonde, is producing the redo, to which Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the playwright behind the Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, is coming on board to write the script. There is no director set.

Little Shop originally was a quirky 1960 movie from Roger Corman that featured a milquetoast florist who discovers success with a human-eating plant. It was turned into an off-Broadway musical, which led to a second movie in 1986, directed by Frank Oz and starring Rick Moranis and Steve Martin.

Being a huge fan of the very diverse Gordon-Levitt, I can't help but to be excited to see this project come to fruition.

Source: THR

[Zer0.MediA]

I'm a fan of both the movie and the actor so I'm interested. With that being said, I'm 28 and feel like I know more about the movie than my peers, due to the fact that I was introduced to it because my much older cousin was in a Little Shop play in high school, which I got to watch on VHS when I was 5 or so... She played the main female character (don't remember her name, blashpemy, I know) and my uncle had spliced any scene she wasn't in with the actual movie... It was the shit.

I sense trouble afoot. I wouldn't be surprised to find out this is a soft PG-13 with a CG plant who claims he needs to eat people without any explanation that he craves blood.

Or it could be the shit... Who the fuck knows.