Uh oh - it appears Pumpkinhead is next in line to receive the remake/reboot treatment.. According to Entertainment Weekly, Peter Block (executive producer of SAW) has acquired the rights to the Pumpkinhead franchise - with plans for a reboot sometime next year..
Block promises this will not be (by the numbers) remake:
"There is a similarity of theme and a similarity of story. There’s a lot of Easter eggs for people who know the original — iconic shots and iconic lines that we’re going to use. But we’ve enhanced the setting, and we’ve expanded the characters somewhat, to give it a different kind of experience."
He also promises when it comes to the special effects, the focus will be on practical effects:
"I am a big proponent of practical effects. That was the great thing about the original. A lot of the films I still respond to most today, it’s because of the practical effects. We think that it’s going to be a nice slow reveal, lots of scares and lots of action in the beginning, and a great creature in the end, which everybody should be able to look at and say, ‘Oh, that’s Pumpkinhead!’ It’s not like you’re all of a sudden going to find that it’s some amorphous, nebulous, CGI wispy thing. You’re going to know it came from the Pumpkinhead family lineage."
(Source: Horror-Movies.ca)
