Tyrannosaurus Rex - Rob Zombie spills the beans

Been a while since I heard anything about this. IGN had the chance to speak to director Rob Zombie (Halloween, H2) about his potential next project, which is an action/thriller called "Tyrannosaurus Rex."

"That was the movie I was planning on doing, but sometimes things don't always pan out in the order you wish they would," Zombie explained. "But if things work out, that'll be the movie that I want to do next."

The film will be a departure from the genre the writer/director is most associated with -- horror.

"That's not a horror movie or anything," he says. "It's really another movie sort of about damaged, f*cked up people. It's about this guy that is an up-and-coming prizefighter who has this self-defeating quality to his personality. He one night goes out and gets himself into trouble and goes to prison for 14 years. When he comes out he's just a washed up bum and he tries to put his life back together and gets into this really violent underground fighting to survive. It's something totally different. It's not like a horror movie."

Zombie added that horror isn't necessarily as important to him as his fans might think it is. "They're not even my favorite types of movies. I mean, I love horror movies but not the way people think. I don't really care for slasher movies or any of that stuff. It was never anything I liked; even as a kid I didn't care for it. I'm such a product of the '70s, you know, I'd rather watch Billy Jack than Friday the 13th any day."

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Tyrannosaurus Rex - New Poster

Another cracking poster for Rob Zombie's Tyrannosaurus Rex. All we know is that it is about a bad ass wrestler on the run from a biker gang from Hell. That's all we need to know to go and see it.

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New Tyrannosaurus Concept Art

From Slash Film

Rob Zombie has released yet another piece of concept art from his upcoming film Tyrannosaurus Rex. Zombie posted the comic book cover above on his MySpace page with the description “The comic that started it all!” In other news, Zombie has announced that his fake movie trailer in Grindhouse, Werewolf Women of the SS, is being turned into a comic book series!

Tyrannosaurus Rex Concept Art

Here's some concept art from Rob Zombie's latest movie, Tyrannosaurus Rex. I'm still liking the look of this one (see the poster for it by following the label below). Looks like there will be no dinosaurs in it then!

Zombie has gone on to say that this will not be a screen version of his comic book, The Nail.

Tyrannosaurus Rex - Poster. Rob Zombie's latest.

This reminds me of one of those nasty-cool movies from the 70's. I've no idea what this film is about, but I expect murder, death, kill. I love the tagline.