Remember that little Shop of Horrors…

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Well… its coming back to a movie screen near you, so lock up the loved one’s and get ready to sing some, jolly tunes.

And the man helming  the Warner Bros vision is no other than Greg Berlanti, who might not have enjoyed the best luck with big screen gigs (remember Green Lantern? and he directed Life As We Know it), but he’s been having a lot more success on TV, especially with the DC superhero shows such as Flash and Arrow.

Though the musical version of the story – as brought to the stage by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman and developed into a 1986 movie by Frank Oz – is the most well known, Little Shop actual springs from Roger Corman’s 1960 original about nerdy florist’s assistant Seymour, who cultivates a plant that turns out to have a taste for human flesh and blood.

Photos by Warner Bros.

Matthew Robinson (The Invention Of Lying) is writing the script for the new movie, which will once again feature tunes, though report’s on this latest take doesn’t mention whether it’ll include all of the original music and whether it’ll plump for the darker stage ending or the revised finale that was shot for the 1986 version after test audiences didn’t like the downbeat finish. Marc Platt is aboard as producer, and he’s been trying to get the new take on its feet since at least 2012….

Looking forward to the The Little Shop making a comeback, then let us know!