Source: Variety
News from Variety shares that MGM, BRON, and HIDDEN EMPIRE will be rebooting the entertaining 1970s Blaxploitation classic BLACULA (1972). While the power and majesty of William Marshall will never be matched, this is a property ripe for a modern revision. Many behind this project released The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 recently which topped the specialty box office. This being a simple project announcement, no word on when to expect this to begin production or to release to theaters. More news as it drops. Until then, let’s begin speculating who will be the African prince, Mamuwalde.
Deon Taylor will direct the project, based on a script co-written with Micah Ranum. Roxanne Avent Taylor is producing the movie on behalf of Hidden Empire Film Group.
Variety
Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.
