Rob Zombie Moves Away From Horror, Will Write And Direct Hockey Film ‘Broad Street Bullies’
By Russ Fischer/June 19, 2012 1:30 pm EST
Zombie is attached to write, produce and direct Broad Street Bullies, a film based on the career of the upstart and ultimately winning ’70s Philadelphia Flyers hockey team. But don’t worry about some of Zombie’s trademarks; as a ’70s hockey film, and specifically one about the ’take no prisoners’ Flyers, there’s a lot of room for violence here.
Deadline says the film came about thanks to Zombie picking up the film rights to the team, and the Flyers are reportedly fully behind the project. For what he’s aiming to make, think “Rocky meets Boogie Nights on ice,” and he explains,
The idea is to shoot the film “shortly,” and more than anything else, the idea of Zombie making a movie with a happy ending — the Flyers won the Stanley Cup in ‘74 — is seriously strange.
Here’s the 2010 HBO documentary Broad Street Bullies, which chronicles the team in less fictionalized fashion than Zombie is likely to make.
