Sam Raimi is one of those guys who, no matter how many commercial movies he makes, will never stray far from his roots. After all, he followed up the Spidey movies with “Drag Me To Hell”. And now he’s at it again, this time with a classic novel.

For those of you who only know it from a passing reference in “Rocky Horror”, John Wyndham’s “Day of the Triffids” is actually a really fun and really well-written novel. Essentially, 99% of the world’s population goes blind due to what we later learn is a superweapon malfunction. Unfortunately, that takes away our one advantage against the triffids, a bunch of walking, poisonous, p.o.’ed plants.

It’s been on screens before: on the big screen in ’62, and two TV miniseries, one in the ’80s and one actually last year. On the other hand, we’ve never seen a quick montage of anti-triffid weapons being assembled ending with Bruce Campbell saying “Groovy.” And since that’s required by law to be in every Sam Raimi film, we can’t wait.

[ via Deadline ]

And what could be more surprising than the First Batallion Transvestite Brigade? Airborne Wing.

QuietEarth found three clips viewable outside England for BBC’s upcoming miniseries airing on the 28th of this month, a remake of ”Day of the Triffids”.  Here’s the synopsis:

The world is struck blind by a solar storm, and millions of man-eating mobile plants are released to roam Britain.  As an expert on the Triffids, Bill Masen knows that salvation rests in the hands of the father he hates, who mutated the Triffids in the first place to produce a green source of oil that the world craves.

It stars stars Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave, Eddie Izzard, and Jason Priestley.  You can put Scott, Izzard, and Cox into anything and I’ll watch it.  Especially Cox.  Watching Cox is my favorite thing.  I could watch Cox all day.  Yep.  Can’t get enough.  Of that.

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