ROB ZOMBIE Says His Feud With Original 'Halloween' Director JOHN CARPENTER Was Quashed In 'One Second'

Rob Zombie and legendary director John Carpenter recently “buried the hatchet” after video surfaced of Carpenter blasting Zombie for allegedly “lying” to him about Zombie’s 2007 remake of Carpenter‘s 1978 horror classic “Halloween”.

Speaking to IndieWire about the supposed feud, Rob said: “I mean, it ended so quickly. Basically, I saw something online, that he was obviously upset about something I said. But I wasn’t sure what it was, because I love John, I’ve got nothing bad to say about him, I was, like, ‘Oh, my God, what could I have possibly said? How did it get misconstrued? What was it?’ I didn’t know. So I immediately called him up, we talked for literally one minute, and by the end of it, it was all good. It was just some misunderstanding and I said, ‘No, no, no. That’s not it at all, John. I don’t know how it came across that way, but this is how I feel about that,’ and whatever, and he was, like, ‘Okay, great. No problem, Rob. Let’s just put it behind us,’ and it was over in one second.”

He added: “It freaked me out because I’ve known John now for almost 20 years. I first met him when I went down to visit the set of ‘Escape From L.A.’ and he’s always been super nice and I’ve always loved his work and loved him, and that’s why I said, ‘Oh, my God. What happened?’ So, that’s why I wanted to settle it as quick as possible, because I don’t want that to be the case at all.”

Carpenter tweeted on September 27: “To everyone fascinated with the JC/RZ feud, old news. We spoke Sunday, we buried the hatchet. Let’s move on.”

In the aforemention video, taken at the New York Film Academy last April, Carpenter said that he disliked Zombie‘s remake, adding that Rob was dishonest when he said that Carpenter never gave him his blessing to tackle the remake in the first place. Carpenter explained: “He lied about me. He said I was very cold to him when he told me he was going to make it. Nothing could be further from the truth. I said, ‘Make it your own movie, man. This is yours now. Don’t worry about me.’ I was incredibly supportive. Why that piece of shit lied, I don’t know.”

Zombie‘s version of “Halloween” was reviewed poorly by critics but made nearly $60 million at the box office, leading to a Zombie-directed sequel in 2009.

Carpenter himself is executive producing yet another reboot of “Halloween”, although further details on that have yet to be unveiled.

Zombie‘s latest movie, “31”, recently premiered on digital outlets and VOD and will begin a limited theatrical run on October 21.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net